Indexing - I hate it when computers ask me questions.

[Tom Wood]

So I opened VT2 for the first time from the desktop and a window opens up that says, you've never opened VT before, we are about to go on a journey...

Short version, it says I may need to increase the Ted default and DDR default CPU settings, the C: drive has 61.0 mb/s and is okay for video caches, the V: drive (3 U320 SCSIs) has 177 mb/sec and is -best- for video caches, the Ted cache drive and DDR cache drive settings may be too low, set the Aura tempdir, 303 DVEs were found on Drive C and the DVE folder is set to C:\DVEs...

and then we got to Phase 4 Drive Indexing.

I get another window saying that Windows has a drive indexing function that can cause some serious performance problems when writing video to a drive and would I like to disable it for all video drives? Well sure. So it "fixed" drive C:
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Huh? Is this something I need to "undo" and how?

Anyway, this is way too fun.

Thanks for any help, and sorry if this is dumb.

TW

[Aegis]

Drive indexing is best turned off for whichever drives you're capturing video on because Windows will occasionally access the drive to build a table of files so it can index them quickly - if it does this whilst you're capturing video you *might* drop frames. For your system drive it's best to leave it on.

TEd and DDR CPU settings should be 0.2 less than your CPU - i.e 2.5ghz P4 should be set at 2.3

TEd and DDR cache drive setting should be around (but not over) your detected transfer rate for your video drive (usually your RAID) - in your case between 160-170mbps.

[Tom Wood]

Thanks,

Found the Indexing Service settings, C: is back on.

The little brown dog is not long for my world....

TW