Disk limit dropping audio...

Hi,
I have a old project that worked 100% fine in old Soundtrack version.
Now i try to play the project in Soundtrack Pro and i get this message !!!
"Soundtrack Pro is dropping audio because your computer's hard disk cannot deliver all of the ausio in time. Try removing some long files or quitting other applications."
I have very basic sound effets over a normal video.
thanks

I've had the exact same problem. I never had problems with Soundtrack 1.5 that came with FCE. I could easily get 8 tracks going on my old iMac G5 w/ 1GB RAM. But when I upgraded to Final Cut Studio 2 and an iMac C2D 2.33GHz w/ 2GB RAM, I couldn't get more than 2 audio tracks to play without that alert. Sometimes, it wouldn't even play one track.
I was scoring a film, so I had exported video from FCP. I reduced the quality of the export to a small 320x240 MPEG4 file, but that made no difference. On my old iMac, I could use a full-res HDV video with no problem.
On a hunch, I disconnected my 2nd monitor, which I recently added. After that, I've haven't had a single problem. I've got 5 tracks going on my current project. Haven't seen the alert again.
Makes no sense, but I did notice a performance drop in my iMac when using that 2nd monitor. I have a NVIDIA 7600GT w/ 256MB VRAM, so I thought it should handle it. Guess not.Oh well, I can live without it. The 24" screen is plenty big!
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