steve,

1. ensure you are running the latest ARC. there have been significant audio performance increases over the last few releases. the most recent release should be used

2. use the benchmark utility and tweak the Data Channel Flood Protection value in the Connection Control if you are performing many read commands to the EZ-B v4.x/0 or EZ-B v4.x/1

Dave, I will have to give all that a go and I will try removing the small amp to see if that changes anything. I also have some suspicions about my laptop. I have been using my work laptop for ARC but I have been having some problems with it recently. If I have to reboot it, I get an error saying it cant load windows explorer and then it goes blank and then gives me the same message then goes blank and so on. The only way I can get it working is to restore it back to an earlier date, but then I have to update ARC again. I hate computers some times. I tried downloading ARC onto my wife's laptop but hers but it won't download. Her laptop is a HP running windows 8 but for the life of me I couldn't get it to download ARC. I even tried turning of the windows firewall. I'm thinking about buying a separate laptop just for ARC and nothing else.

DJ, I am using the latest ARC. What is and where do I find the benchmark utility? I haven't heard of that one.

Steve, Yes, make sure you have a trouble free laptop. When you have ARC installed on it, load your project and go to the top menu bar. Click on Project and then Add Control. Then on the General tab you'll see the Benchmark control.

Okay, I have done a little more testing and found something strange. I had two "ADC value" controls in my project monitoring and displaying the voltage change on the two ADC ports I am using for the Power Pack pull animation. I paused them and found that the files played almost perfectly. I then deleted them and haven't had a problem since.....Not sure what to make of this. I am still considering buying a Laptop for exclusive use for ARC though.

steve,

1. ensure you are running the latest ARC. there have been significant audio performance increases over the last few releases. the most recent release should be used

2. use the benchmark utility and tweak the Data Channel Flood Protection value in the Connection Control settings if you are performing many read commands to the EZ-B v4.x/0 or EZ-B v4.x/1

@steve.neal I was wondering, if you increased the "Interval" value in the ADC Value controls to 1000 ms, does it help the situation? The default 500 ms should be fine, but you never know. It's odd that putting them in pause didn't clear it up just doing that. Apparently there is still something going on with them even when paused.

Also, do you have other controls like that going as well? The combination of several controls of that type could cause problems, since they all run all the time, and by getting rid of a couple, you took just enough load off the computer to smooth things out for now.

And like DJ says, you really need to the run the latest and greatest version of ARC.

Oh, and one more thing. Do you have other programs running on the laptop at the same time you are running ARC? Sorry if that's already been asked.

WB, He's saying that when he paused the controls and then deleted them all is working perfectly.

I mentioned a few posts above that you should look for these controls and pause them. I've been experiencing this same thing and commenting on it for years now. It's not new and not odd. The ADC reads from these monitors are overwhelming your system and flooding the comm signal. I've never been able to have one running all the time and not have it drag down my performance.

WB is correct however, you can go into the control and adjust how often the thing reads the adc port. I've done this a few times and it helps. The latest updates as DJ just stated has gone a long way to aid in this issue. Hopefully the new EZB coming soon will also help this issue.

As long as you don't have these monitors running you should be OK.

Hi DJ,

I am using the latest ARC. I had a look at the "Benchmark Utility" but I couldn't figure out what to do with it. I clicked the ADC button and changed the figure at the top but I wasn't sure what it was telling me. Sorry I'm terrible with this stuff

WBS00001,

I had already changed the Sleep value to 1000ms when I was experiencing these problems. I dont have any other scripts looping other than the two monitoring ADC0 and ADC1. As far as I'm aware, I didn't have any other programs running at the time, I might double check that though to make sure there wasn't something running in the background.

I'm still leaning towards the suspicion there is an issue with my laptop. Its definitely not right at the moment and I'm thinking it may be causing or at least amplifying this problem. although the problem seems to have gone away since I deleted the ADC Value controls.