Is your Windows 95 / 98 system configured
for optimal performance with Cubase or VST?

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  1. Make sure you don't have any compressed drives.
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  2. Make sure you are using the "appropriate" filesystem for your drive/s size (FAT16 vs. FAT32)
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  3. Disable Auto Insert Notification for your CD-ROM drive.
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  4. Make sure that your MSDOS.SYS file says DoubleBuffer=0
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  5. Disable "Windows Animation"
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  6. Enable "Show window contents while dragging"
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  7. If you have MS Plus, make sure that Low disk space notification is disabled in the System Agent. Also make sure no other devices run while your running Cubase.

  8. Disable background tasks and applications.
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  9. Fix the size of your vcache.
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  10. Disable Read-ahead optimization.
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  11. If you have a CD-ROM drive installed which has not got a driver for Windows 95, it will degrade Windows 95 real-time performance.
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  12. Make sure Win95 is not running in compatibility mode.
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  13. Defragment your hard drives before each session.
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  14. Disable write-behind disk caching.
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  15. Set Virtual Memory to a fixed amount.
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  16. If you have MS Office, you should disable indexing in the Control Panel.

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