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Tips and advice for getting the most from Scope. No questions here please.

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Post by Plato »

I just had the strangest crash...pushing Scope & SX a bit, and I got a deafening high pitched squeal etc.....but this is the strange bit - it deleted a lot of the data in my cset file, so when I rebooted all the menus in Scope were wrong, and everything looked different.
Thankfully I had a back-up of my cset so managed to restore everything quickly, but without it, well who knows what mess I'd be in?

Back up your cset & Scope.rgy NOW !

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Post by BingoTheClowno »

This happens if you have caching enabled for your hard drives, I think (and your PC freezes suddenly).
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Post by garyb »

disable write caching for all hds!
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Post by Plato »

Does it make much difference to performance?
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Post by marcuspocus »

Yes, it help having a faster/cleaner shutdown of window.

It prevent buffering too much data, causing a burst write, and incidentaly, a glitch in recording.
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Post by Omb »

this last week i had that crash an all off my sfp menu messd up and i had to install all the sfp from start :sad:

how do i Back up my cset & Scope.rgy ?

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Post by fra77x »

you simply locate them (with search file) and copy them to a safe place
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Post by Plato »

If i remember rightly:
ScopeAppBin....then just copy the files to My Documents or anywhere you fancy
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Post by symbiote »

Also, there's an item in the Settings menu that will let you save Scope.rgy (and Cset.ini I think) wherever you want.
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Post by Music Manic »

does disabling help in XP too?
Also does CPU overhead increase if it's switched off?

Thanks
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Post by Nestor »

On 2004-12-07 19:59, garyb wrote:
disable write caching for all hds!
I don't remember where to disable it, can you remember me please?
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Post by Music Manic »

Right click hard disc in my computer/properties/hardware,
choose hard disc/properties/policies.

Voila!
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