Forum: Old versions

I managed to download the latest version of the software - I don't know if it will fix the problems I have been having - I haven't had the chance to try it out since I downloaded it and put it in my laptop.

The problem I have been experiencing is as follows.

It plays alright for about half an hour - then it starts to "drag" - like it's trying to force itself to play and prevent itself from playing at the same time - sounds like an oxymoron, I know - but it's the best description I can offer.

Hopefully, this new version will sort this problem out. I was trying to use it at a wedding just over a week ago. I wasn't using the visualisations - I didn't bring my projector or screen - good thing, too, as I had to walk back with my laptop, Hercules mixer and the other mixer, which I was using as an amp! It worked fine for a while, then started to do as I described above - I was at the bar at the time. In the end, I just used Windows Media Player and turned on the crossfader.

Something you might wanna do if Virtual DJ plays up "in situ", I suppose - though you can't do creative mixes on the fly and things like that.

I don't really understand about things like that. My computer is an Acer laptop, part of the Travel Mate series, that's as much as I know. Whilst I can type things out and fix some peoples' problems, when people start spouting technobabble at me, it's all foreign.

I reduced the performance tab to second fastest and set the latency to auto - I don't exactly know what "latency" actually is - and it seemed to cure the problem - but I was using it at home at the time and didn't have it on for very long.

The best advice I could give to any user of the software would be to try it at home first, set all the things to whatever works best, then try it at a gig. That way, it won't crash, slow down and all those embarrassing things that ruin a gig. Different computers work different ways.

I'm thinking of getting one of those external hard-drives, with the biggest possible memory, so I can move my music files to that and free up my laptop's C and D drives so I can just use them for software packages - move the music files to this drive and I'll be able to put more music on there. I saw an advert for PC World on telly last week - they were advertising one for about £30 sterling that enables you to store about 75,000 songs - my D-drive has somewhere in excess of 4,000 songs on it and claims to be nearly full. Mind you - with material cobbled from some 200 or so CDs, it's not surprising!