| Re: Attempt/Issues reviving PARIS system...Many questions...Help please! [message #109041 is a reply to message #109034] |
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| senseart wrote on Sat, 02 January 2016 01:28 | Don't know all the specifics on my son's PC...I do know it's an AMD processor, 4GB of DDR2 RAM, and an ASUS MB. I'm now wondering if the cards will fit depth-wise, I think so. He used this mostly for gaming then updated for video editing so I know the video card is nice!
It should boot to a SSD but if not I will get a drive and start building. I see Mike takes PayPal and the drivers are a download so no problem there. I'll have to use Win 8.1. I have two EDS cards so I'll leave one in the old system and put one in the new for testing. I have a smaller project I can do.
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Heya Gary! Welcome to the forums! Can you post the make/model of your son's mobo so we can do a little speculation on directions for you? AMD was the preferred architecture for PARIS for years, so that's great - an SSD is going to make that old girl fly, and 4MB of RAM was the stuff of supercomputers back then.
Here's the Wiki entry on the PARIS.cfg file. The less random messing one does with the .cfg the better (less stuff to troubleshoot if things go wrong) - if you have performance problems I'd change them according to the recommendations on that page or of experienced users (actually, thinking about it, that's pretty much everyone here now!) but leave anything alone that you don't have to mess with.
The minute you get your .cfg the way you like it, back it up to another drive so you can get back to that setting in a jiffy. Besides crashes, other things can delete your PARIS.cfg - say a reinstall, or changing a setting via the "PARIS Configuration" menu item in the Project Window (if I recall, since this doesn't know about some of the features you can manually edit, this can potentially overwrite your edited .cfg with default values for the things it doesn't know about!). Once you've got a solid setup backed up, you can then start tweaking around to see what other kinds of stuff you can do 
"... being bitter is like swallowing poison and waiting for the other guy to die..." - anon
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