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Forum: VirtualDJ Technical Support

Topic: Gaming laptop performance issues
I was using a nothing special Asus laptop. VDJ worked fine. Due to some issues it was having, decided to upgrade to a new laptop. I picked up an MSI Katana (Intel i7, rtx4050, 16gigs ram) with the hopes that it would help out with stems and getting into VJing. The performance with VDJ has been terrible. I get tons of audio crackles just when I move the mouse around sometimes, the waveforms don't seem to move smoothly, there are little stutters, etc.. No idea what to do. I'm using a Hercules Inpulse 500 with its Asio drivers, I've tried messing with the latency in both the VDJ settings and the Hercules settings (every setting from 64 to 2048), disabling any audio enhancements in windows I can find, changing whether it's the discrete video card being used or not, using Asio4all...nothing seems to help.

Is this a known thing with dual graphic cards/gaming laptops? Any suggestions at all before I have to return this brand new machine? It seems like it's related to the graphics card but all my drivers are up to date.
 
Posted 3 days ago @ 12:06 am
I have basically the same specs in my laptop and it runs stems in real time... When I first got the laptop I installed Windows 11 fresh from a USB skipping all the HP crap software and only putting the minimum on it.
 
It came with extremely minimal bloatware and I got rid of everything I could on it. The previous laptop probably had more bloat on it, an i5, basic graphics card, 16gb ram and I could mix in VDJ with Firefox open and torrents going with no issues. Don't get it.
 
It unfortunately only takes one bad program running in the backgroung (including drivers) or one bad Windows/laptop setting (like CPU throttling) to break the laptop and make it unusable for DJing
 
Klaus Mogensen wrote :
It unfortunately only takes one bad program running in the backgroung (including drivers) or one bad Windows/laptop setting (like CPU throttling) to break the laptop and make it unusable for DJing


I agree with Klaus Mogensen, gamer machine manufacturers love to put all sorts of software on these machines. On mine (HP Omen), I only kept the RGB keyboard lighting software once I reinstalled a fresh copy of Windows 11. Seeing how you have two vid cards (4050 and Intel) you can tell windows to use ONLY the 4050 and not the Intel for VDJ. Likewise, make sure after that, VDJ is using the 4050 for stems. That card can handle stems in real time and can analyze for stems while you are playing that mp3. I have the same card and its amazing.

VirtualDJ has so many tweaks to adjust for any system. Also look at skin FPS as well.

FYI: On Intel machines, I only use the Intel software updater to skip the modified drivers from the manufacturer. I also use Winhance to kill most of the Windows ads and features I don't want/use on my system.
 

Crackles when you move the mouse? Is it a mouse or the touchpad?