Thread: RR doesn't start Phoco on initial load..

Originally Posted by wfs1

Liquid, if I could get more ram I would, memory is cheap except in my body/mind and that has been costly in the past . My HP E-PC has only 1-slot and all I can find that was compatible after several tries was a HP branded 256 stick and that wasn't too easy to find.

With the previous post of 128 meg in the scenario, it would definitely be a problem. If they are running RR in the startup folder of XP, then this might compound the problem. I know I added some timing to my startup of RR on the initial windows bootup for TCP/IP, bluetooth, etc and things have smoothed out and once you get use to it, the time delay isn't that bad.

Winamp can be a process hog in visualization mode or at least mine is, it shot up to 82+% and peaked at 96% while I was running it with RR/Phoco, etc without it shows around 22-27% CPU and about 29% memory usage.

Forgot to mention that if Winamp's option is checked for traybar icon, Phoco will have problems, just minimize it the first time.

maybe time for a new machine, im not sure what type or how old your box is, but one ram slot is harsh, and only being able to find 256 sticks sucks.
as for the winamp vis stuff, in your situation i would just turn it off, or... you can go through and find and use only the simple vis that dont suck all the cpu, and stick them in a seperate folder, you can force winamp to only use those vis.

"memory is cheap except in my body/mind"

not sure what that means?

here are some more weirdness im seeing with phoco, this only happens every bluemoon, actually only seen it happen about 3 or 4 times, here is a screen shot. If you notice the interface for phoco standalone is partialy visible, only some elements are there, not all. Also, note the skin im using for when its in standalone mode is not the one thats shown.


also, since it just happened again, i also noticed that all those phoco elements on the rightside of the screen do work, its not just a ghost image.

nvr mind, i figured out the oddness in the pic above. If you set use taskbar to false in phoco config it fixes the issue.

that is in the config for phoco, not a RR issue.
If you open the Phoco Extended Configuration>MainWindow>UseTaskbar=False

OR
if you want to hand edit it, open PhoneCtl.Config.xml
and under the MainWindow section change or add only the line below with RED text

Code:

<MainWindow>
    <Window>0,0,800,600</Window>
    <WindowToSwitchTo />
    <SpeechEnabled>False</SpeechEnabled>
    <LogEnabled>True</LogEnabled>
    <SendLogEnabled>True</SendLogEnabled>
    <MediaPlayer host="127.0.0.1" port="7500">WinAmp</MediaPlayer>
    <MuteAnalogMic>True</MuteAnalogMic>
    <MainVolumeOnCall restoreVolume="True">20</MainVolumeOnCall>
    <StartupMode>Hidden</StartupMode>
    <UseOSK executable="osk.exe">True</UseOSK>
    <AutoHideTimeout>0</AutoHideTimeout>
    <BuildAbsolutePath>False</BuildAbsolutePath>
    <Ringtone />
    <SMStone />
    <UseTaskbar>False</UseTaskbar>
    <CheckPhoneTimeout>20</CheckPhoneTimeout>
    <PopupOnHide opacity="80" backColor="Black">True</PopupOnHide>
    <AllowTransparency>False</AllowTransparency>
    <Tooltip position="0,0" size="0,30" opacity="80" backColor="Goldenrod" textColor="White" selectColor="Royalblue">True</Tooltip>
  </MainWindow>

that fixes it so it dosent happen. In some cases, the interface would pop up right on top of RR and not off the side of the screen in the screenshots.