Creative takes a step in the right directi
I don't know how many users have noticed, but Creative has decided to make ALchemy free for Audigy users, and refund those that purchased it. This is a great first step towards responding to the community. I highly recommend you follow this up with regular, consistant, two-way communication to your user-base. A weekly or monthly 'Ask any question' (moderated) thread would be a good way to facilitate this. Thanks Creative!
Well, you can also see this as positi've and as negati've. As Daniel_K already has mentioned, the Alchemy software need a good working Vista driver for the Audigy series. But since the Audigy Vista drivers are "broken" the Alchemy software can't work properly (or the 3D sound in the games that need the Alchemy to get the EAX to function in Windows Vista can't work properly). If you make something, a software or hardware which you have to pay for, it have to work properly, otherwise some-one may sue the company for bringing a not properly working product on the market. To prevent that you have to make the product for free for the mass. You can not complain about something that's for free, right?
The other view is that Creative Labs has finally realised that you can't mess with the consumers, especially the loyal ones who have bought many Soundblasters of different generations. While this is a small step, it's a good start. Just hope I can see the newer Windows XP drivers for the XP users (hopefully with many fixes for games that are not working properly with the Audigy soundcards which are promoted as "gamer" soundcards) for the Audigy series soundcards in a month or 2? Should be possible since Windows XP is a more mature OS than the Vista, right?
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Presenter 8 step in the right direction
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I think the results are marvelous, but there are issues with Presenter 8 which I think make it problematic for the educational user. I experienced unacceptable lag times in using Adobe Presenter Video Recorder and the simulation tool (which requires Captivate). And I also experienced fails on two computers with various errors, mostly at the point of publishing a video.
I would like to cut to the chase with these recommendations for the product:
First, make the installation a seamless one-button click process. I had to jump through way too many hoops: an "Akamai" thingamajig that made no sense to me at all, and two separate files totalling more than 465 MB in size. Wow.
Second, make the installation overwrite any pre-existing Presenter product. I had to uninstall Presenter 7 and the information that showed the necessity for doing so was hard to drill down to.
Third, make it possible for Adobe Presenter Video Recorder to insert a video clip, with one click, onto a Powerpoint Presentation. The current method forces you to publish, then export the video to a new Powerpoint presentation. Why not just put the clip on the presentation you are working on currently? After all, the video record launch button is on the Presenter ribbon.
Fourth, provide a more obvious EPSS for the video recorder.
Fifth, shorten or eliminate lag times and increase stability.
It would be nice, too, for Presenter to reintroduce the teleprompter that Adobe Visual Communicator attempted to implement, before that product's demise.
Also desirable would be a built-in simulation solution. It doesn't have to be a full-blown Captivate, but how about something that would accomplish screen captures, much as Captivate 6 now does with the video record-only option?
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Glen Gummess,
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University of St. Francis
Joliet, ILHello,
Welcome to Adobe Forums.
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I need better performance from my computer. Could someone point me in the right direction?
I do a lot of video editing for work. I am currently using the Creative Cloud, and the programs I use most frequently are Premiere Pro CS6, Photoshop CS6, and Encore. My issue is that when I am rendering video in Premiere Pro, and most importantly, transcoding in Encore for BluRay discs, I am getting severe lag from my computer. It basically uses the majority of my computer's resources and doesn't allow me to do much else. This means, that I can't do other work while stuff is rendering or transcoding. I had this computer built specifically for video editing and need to know which direction to go in for an upgrade to get some better performance, and allow me to do other work.
For the record, I do have MPE: GPU Acceleration turned ON, and I have 12GBs of RAM alloted for Adobe in Premiere Pro's settings, and 4GBs left for "other".
Here is my computer:
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- nVidia Quadro 4000 2GB video card
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Here is where I am at on the issue. I put in a request for more RAM (32GBs), this way I can allot around 25GBs of RAM to the Adobe suite, leaving more than enough to do other things. I was told that this was not the right direction to go in. I was told that since my CPUs are working around 50-70%, it means that my video card isn't pulling enough weight. I was told that the first step in upgrading this machine that we should take, is to replace my 2GB video card with a 4GB video card, and that will fix these performance issues that I am having, not RAM.
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Thanks for any help.You have a couple of issues with this system:
Slow E5-2620's. You would be much better off with E5-2687W's
Limited memory. 32 GB is around bare minimum for a dual processor system.
Outdated Quadro 4000 card, which is very slow in comparison to newer cards and is generally not used when transcoding.
Far insufficient disk setup. You need way more disks.
A software raid5 carries a lot of overhead.
The crippled BIOS of Dell does not allow overclocking.
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You would not be the first to leave a Dell in the configuration it came in. If that is the case, you need a lot of tuning to get it to run decently.
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From the multiplayer client perspective it doesn't really matter which technology you use. You can write a multiplayer game in any engine or technology that can talk to the network. Choose the client technology that you are most adept at and interested in
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I have a couple of tabbed panes which contain some
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JDBC will handle this easily.
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