Hardware Performance MacBook (13-inch, Late 2009)

[shadowofpripyat]

Hello Community,

please excuse me my English thats not so good (my German iss better).

I have many Problems with Resolume and my Mac, when i started Vjing (include Output of TV) than stocks Resolume but is my Hardware too slow?

Must I the Settings from Composite of 640 x 480?
Or the Loops (DXV3) from 1280 x 760 of 640 x 480?
Loops better than DXV Compressed or DXV 3?
I have 10 Layer is this too much?

2.26GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor with 3MB on-chip shared L2 cache running 1:1 with processor speed
1066MHz frontside bus
2GB (two 1GB SO-DIMMs) of 1066MHz DDR3 SDRAM; two SO-DIMM slots support up to 4GB
320GB (5400-rpm) hard drive

Many Thanks.

[Arvol]

Having a Solid State hard drive always helps out. But your graphics processor is a:
NVIDIA GeForce 9400M graphics processor with 256MB of DDR3 SDRAM shared with main memory.

256MB will not get you very far when working with 1920 x 1080 resolutions.

What is the resolutions of the output source you are sending the video to?

640 x 480 files will run faster than 1280 x 720 as there is less pixels to process.

If you load a 1280 x 720 clip and scale it down to 640 x 480, I honestly do not know how Resolume handles that? I would assume that it would run slower than just loading a 640 x 480 file, as the software still has to process the 1280 x 720 pixels in order to scale them??

DXV3 clips encoded with a "normal" setting will load much faster than other clips.

For $500-$800 on ebay, you can find used 15" 2012 Mac Book Pro's with a AMD Radeon R9 M370X Graphics card. (2GB of memory). I have ran that laptop with a Solid State hard drive (another $200) and it has worked GREAT for a cheap laptop. I don't know what your budget is, but again, a 256MB Graphics card will not get you very far.

Maybe for now, convert everything down to a 640 x 480 and let your receiving devices do an up-scaling?
Does anyone else have advice for this setup?

[Oaktown]

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news but your computer is not strong enough for Vijaying. It's probably better suited for running Microsoft Office than programs that media server software like Resolume.

Why don't you check the benchmark thread and spreadsheet to see if someone else has had any luck with this particular set up.