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Still no access to it at all Frits. I followed your advice to the letter.

I can see the Set Affinity… command (not grayed out) but I do not even get to the processor screen I posted earlier.

I get this instead after the Set Affinity… command is clicked.

I have another audio interface and I am installing the Vista driver for it now. This is all happening on Vista x86/32. That should confirm or deny the driver theory you suggested. As it affects other audio hosts, it is something to do with audio in some way but lets see if the other interface I have makes any difference…

Really strange… I cannot change Affinity settings for Podium on Vista x86 either. Are you sure I should be able to do this without an additional step somewhere?

@Zynewave wrote:

I’ve seen the “not responding” message before, but that is only when there is a bug that causes Podium to freeze completely (an endless loop in the code, not a crash).

Hmmm could be something more serious then.

How many seconds does it take during Podium startup before the not responding message appears?

It depends. It is intermittent but if you click anywere on the screen as Podium loads a project, it can take about two seconds or so then it appears.

And does the screen return to normal when Podium is finally ready after startup?

Yes once a project has fully loaded the screen returns to normal.

It is the Windows OS that appends the “not responding” text in the title bar. The Podium maximized state hides all window borders and the window title bar (unlike other applications), so that is why the screen shifts when the Windows OS forces the window title to be visible.

Thanks for clarifying that…so there is a reason for this behaviour. This brings me to another question though… why is it that Podium is doing something (at least in this area) “unlike other applications”?

It seems to be something under Podiums hood (which is way over my head just guessing here) but if Podium is doing somehting it probably should not, then should this behaviour not be changed as Windows clearly is clashing with Podium in some way or another. It also explains why the other apps I have did not exhibit this graphical shift.

If you restore the Podium main window so that the window frame is visible, you won’t see the shift when the “not responding” message is appended to the title.

Yeah so far I have not seen it following your suggestion, but I would not use Podium that way.

Thanks for answering the q’s. I was beggining to wonder if my internet security package was causing the issue. The shifting seems to stop if

a. No internet usage is active or available.
b. No firewall or antivirus is active
c. If no Task manager is visible.

Problem is, somehow I cannot use Podium the way many here appear to, while accessing the internet.

I generally will shut everything down for serious work (as many here likely do) but even with that at times I have seen some shifting of the screen while working on a project.

What model is your CPU?

Processor Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU @ 2.40GHz, 2403 Mhz,
4 Core(s)
4 Logical Processor(s)

Or even better…

If you need more info I can simply click on one of those tabs to get another screen shot up.

Its a nice little free app (if you do not already know of it) CPU -Z

Their home page.

There is even one for video cards called GPU-Z

Thanks!

However I would suggest a more flexible process though that allows a user to choose the tracks they want to move to a new group. The suggestion you put forward works if all the tracks underneath the selected track are the tracks you want in the group. But it is not so good if any one of the tracks below a selected track are not supposed to be moved.

Being able to pre select more than one track then using a Move to Group track command for instance would be much better.