User Guide

Because Sound Forge XP is hard-drive intensive, the faster your disk access, the
faster Sound Forge XP will be. The easiest thing to do to improve your
performance without buying new hardware is to defragment your hard drive.
Over time, and especially with heavy use, a hard drive can become fragmented.
This means the data stored on the hard drive gets scattered across the surface
of the disk making your files noncontinuous. When files are noncontinuous,
the hard drive must jump around to retrieve the data.This jumping around can
slow down access to your files and can be very noticeable on older hard drives.
Windows 9x comes with a Disk Defragmenter utility that can be found in the
System Tools file in your Windows Program/Accessories folder.
WINDOWS 9X
Choosing system configuration settings other than the default Windows 9x
settings can result in reduced performance from Sound Forge XP, as well as
Windows 9x. To check these settings, select the System icon from Windows
Control Panel and click the Performance page. File System and Virtual Memory should
both be set to 32-bit. In the advanced settings area of the window, click on File
System. In the File System Properties dialog, the Hard Disk tab setting for Read-ahead
optimization should be set to Full and the Troubleshooting tab should have all of the
settings unchecked.
Select Graphics for the Advanced Graphics Settings dialog. In most cases this setting
should be set to Full. If you are experiencing unexplained glitching in your
audio playback, try different settings. However, if changing these settings
doesn’t clear up the problem, change them back.
Finally, select Virtual Memory under Advanced settings of the Performance page. In
most cases, you should choose to let Windows 9x handle your virtual memory.
WINDOWS NT
There are no special considerations for Windows NT.
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