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Hi

I was hoping someone can tell me what the minimum requirements are for a show computer.

I have a 450mhz pentium III that I am not using. I know this does not meet the minimum hardware requirements, but, I was hoping this would work for a show computer.

I have a much nicer machine that exceeds the minimum hardware requirements that I use for sequencing. I do not want to use this one for the show computer, because I most likely will want to use it while the show is running.

I do not want to waste a software license on a computer that won't work for the show either.

Thanks

Jerry

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LORisAwesome wrote:

Hi

I was hoping someone can tell me what the minimum requirements are for a show computer.

I have a 450mhz pentium III that I am not using. I know this does not meet the minimum hardware requirements, but, I was hoping this would work for a show computer.

I have a much nicer machine that exceeds the minimum hardware requirements that I use for sequencing. I do not want to use this one for the show computer, because I most likely will want to use it while the show is running.

I do not want to waste a software license on a computer that won't work for the show either.

Thanks

Jerry

Back in the day, I ran the show on a PII, 233mhz machine. Granted, this was the LOR 1 days, but it worked just fine.

While I can't definitively state that your 450mhz machine will run the show with LOR 2, I would be surprised it if couldn't run the show.

Also, there is never a fear of 'wasting' a software license with Light-O-Rama. Should you ever find yourself needing to activate a 6th computer, (after having gotten rid of an old one, for example) an email to LOR will clear up the situation. One should never worry about wasting a license.
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Jerry,

I used a PII-450 with 384Mb RAM running XP for my show computer last year. I had 48 channels and the CPU utilization during the show was less than 20% with LOR2. I will try it again this year with 128 channels and see how it works.

Since I do not use the show computer for email or general Internet access I have not installed Anti Virus software which helps performance. I do not use a screen saver (I simply turn the display off) and have turned off all of the XP special GUI effects to improve performance. (although GUI effects do not impact a running show) I do not use the computer for anything else while the show runs.

There are other things that can be done to improve XP performance that I have not done, such as disabling the file/folder access timestamps.

Howard

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RI_Pilot wrote:

Jerry,

I used a PII-450 with 384Mb RAM running XP for my show computer last year.

Howard



I used a similar laptop computer last two years, and have had no problems. I do the same and uninstall every possible thing, no internet connection, no virus., etc, and had no problems. the only down fall so far that everybody talks about, is you need the newer windows media player installed.
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I was planning put put Windows 98 on it. I don't think that machine would run XP very well.

Does anyone know if you can get the version of Windows Media player that is needed with Win 98.



Jerry

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My house show runs on a PII-600 laptop with 1G of RAM, and XP. I have LOR, Zara Radio, and VNC server all running on the box. I think my configs for last year were around 75 channels. Occasionally it gets a delay when using wav files on sequences, as it is a bit drive intensive. I'll usually convert to CBR mp3 for the shows.

Anti Virus, and windows update get turned off during the show season. The screen saver gets set to blank screen, and power save configuration for lid closed is to take no action. It spends most of its time with the lid closed, so the cats can't type anything, or click anything with the touch pad.

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Has anyone any information on using a MAC.

I am becoming a convert of MAC, two years now and have not had the systems freeze or was forced to reboot.



Lee

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While on the subject.... I'm a little confused about how many computers it can be loaded on.

I just upgraded to the new version on main computer, and retrieved my license key.

At some point later, I will be doing the same on the actual 'show' computer. Last year, I also used a laptop outside while working on DMX cordinates for moving yoke fixtures....

Can I activate on 3 computers?

Thanks!
Randall

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Disregard my previous post....

I actually read the email with key... It clearly says '5 seats'

Who'd thought to actually read it!

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