# Error, Graphics card or other processes

**URL:** <https://discourse.psychopy.org/t/error-graphics-card-or-other-processes/4746>\
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**Created:** [June 26, 2018, 10:15am UTC](https://discourse.psychopy.org/t/error-graphics-card-or-other-processes/4746 "2018-06-26T10:15:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![psystudent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/71e660/32.png) [@psystudent](https://discourse.psychopy.org/u/psystudent)\
**Post date:** [June 26, 2018, 10:15am UTC](https://discourse.psychopy.org/t/error-graphics-card-or-other-processes/4746/1 "2018-06-26T10:15:01Z")

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Psychopy produces an error when the experiment gets “too big”.  
The small experiment includes three routines. Routine one presents words out of an excel file followed by an empty text-routine that functions as a pause between the single words. These two routines are put together in a loop. After that comes a sound-routine. If I add another pause-routine (empty text for a couple of secs) somewhere in the experiment, psychopy produces the following error:

 ![fehlercode](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/psychopy/original/3X/7/b/7b6d315356566d69984132d0f09f2de6a2efbeac.png)

9.4782 WARNING Couldn’t me4asure a consistent frame rate.  
-Is your graphics card st to sync to vertical blank?  
-Are you running other processes on your computer?

9.7539 WARNING t of last frame was 25.18ms (=1/39)  
9.8474 WARNING t of last frame was 27.02ms (=1/37)  
9.9721 WARNING tof last frame was 24.94ms (=1/40)  
10.0813 WARNING t of last frame was 24.04ms (=1/41)  
10.2058 WARNING Multiple dropped frames have occured - I’ll stop bothering you about them  
11.4753 WARNING Couldn’t measure a consistent frame rate.  
-Is your graphics card st to sync to vertical blank?  
-Are you running other processes on your computer?  
11.7481 WARNING psychopy.sound.initPyo could notfind microphone hardware; recording not available

There are no other processes running in the background.  
Is psychopy overstepping the limits of my pc (the experiment is really small??)  
all files are saved on a usb stick to be able to run the experiment on another pc. Error codes are similar if i save everything on my harddrive.  
Thankful for any help or advice!