AA Stops Recording

[stops recording]

A month ago I installed AA 2.0 on my new Core 2 Duo computer.    Was rock stable.   Twice someone left it on in record all night by accident and it recorded 9 hours of silence!

Now it stops recording after one hour, or so,  and is getting more unstable.   Recording time gets shorter and shorter.

Any ideas how to restore the stability?   

(We tried all the obvious things, re-booting, etc.). 

Thank you,

FD

Did ya try defragging yer hard disk?

When I read this yesterday defragging was my first reaction.  But particularly if your media drive, drive to which wavs are recorded, is NTFS it is unlikely that defragging is going to cure the problem.  Even on NTFS it might ease situation somewhat. 

Prior to defragging make sure you empty the recycle bin.  Even while AA2 records direct to drive OS still has virtual mem/page file demands.  If you've allowed OS dynamic control you are still going to be paging in and out of virtual memory in ways that can interfere with any streaming tasks. . . more stuff you have running in background the more potential page file activity.  As a drive becomes impacted the core code of how an application uses, interacts with, virtual memory becomes, well critical as opposed to merely significant. 

my second knee jerk reaction to symptoms described is that you are running into problems with virtual memory.  There is no universal fix for this . . . it is system dependent.  How AA2 interacts with Dual Core processors, how virtual mem is altered with multiple core processors are factors. In the short term tracking to a clean drive (not merely defragging an impacted one) is probably the most productive strategy.