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Audacity question
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Hi all
Does anyone have any idea how much RAM is needed to run Audacity properly?
I have a 3 hour recording(160MB) that I want to break down into 3 1-hour segments. My system seems to be struggling with this task.
Running XP Home + SP3 with 1GB RAM.
thanks for any suggestions
Does anyone have any idea how much RAM is needed to run Audacity properly?
I have a 3 hour recording(160MB) that I want to break down into 3 1-hour segments. My system seems to be struggling with this task.
Running XP Home + SP3 with 1GB RAM.
thanks for any suggestions
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.Audio and video editing requires as much ram as you can throw at it, otherwise you'll just end up swapping to the hard drive all the time and it will be slow.
Assuming you have a 32bit version of XP then it won't see anything over about 4GB (and will use around 3.5 of that)
So simple answer, the more the better upto 4GB, but you'll see a huge difference just going to 2 or 3GB.
(1GB is the bare minimum I'd suggest running XP on it's own with these days)
Assuming you have a 32bit version of XP then it won't see anything over about 4GB (and will use around 3.5 of that)
So simple answer, the more the better upto 4GB, but you'll see a huge difference just going to 2 or 3GB.
(1GB is the bare minimum I'd suggest running XP on it's own with these days)