Scope GUI slow down, menus are super slow some times.

Basic Pitch · Post by **Basic Pitch** » Tue Jun 22, 2004 10:14 am

Hi all,

This is a bit odd, but for some reason in this one particular track I am working on, all of a sudden pulling up object windows in scope is super slow I mean it could litteraly take 7-10 full seconds to pull up the mixer view and my scope DSP meter is only reading about 30% usage.

My CPU meter in the project from within Nuendo shows about a 30% usage and the UAD-1 shows 40%, the Powercore window is using roughly 60% of its capacity.

I am however using the East West Drumkit from hell 2 series which uses a kompakt player and is set to run DFD, so why would this make any difference in performance.

I just dont understand, I mean I have Atmosphere and Trilogy in there aswell, NI's Battery also, Ide say I am running about 20 Stereo Audio tracks and maybe 18 Midi tracks so far.

I have no idea what could be causing this, it almost seems like a memory leak. Also I notice some times at the start up, the CPU meter redlines for a split second and then everything is fine.

As far as CW devices goes, I am only using a STM2448, 2x Delay S, SpaceF's triOctaver, Hipass Filter, Lowpass Filter.

Its just wierd, I have 1Gig of DDR400 PC3200 in the box and I really dont think im taxing the system hard at all in this mix so I am stumped, any one have ideas of how to track this down or why SFP starts to crawl, I mean its just annoying ashell when ya want to pull up a window and scope is just sitting idle choking hehe.

I have tried introducing more latency, im running at 14ms currently. On a typical mix my system has run awesome with latency as low as 7m even during mix down, so im lost here.

Any thoughts?

fidox · Post by **fidox** » Tue Jun 22, 2004 1:30 pm

hi there !

i was asking for similar problem here:
http://www.planetz.com/forums/viewtopic ... &forum=1&5

dbmac · Post by **dbmac** » Wed Jun 23, 2004 6:10 am

You're probably maxing out your ram, so Windows is swapping the Scope display data to the Paging file (from ram to HD). You can monitor this activity with a freeware called Cacheman:
http://www.outertech.com/index.php?_cha ... =downloads.
More ram is the solution.

/dave

Basic Pitch · Post by **Basic Pitch** » Wed Jun 23, 2004 1:58 pm

1Gig of ram is not enough for a minimal project hehe? All 3 of my DSP devices were roughly 40-50 usage, I thought about more ram aswell but hell even the DFH2 is using disk streaming so how much could it really be taking it must be something else, I mean I suppose its possible but man, how much ram could a few VSTs and some DSP plugs really be using.

Maybe I need 2gigs of ram to run 20 stereo tracks and 16 midi tracks hehe.

Ill download that device and have a go at it, you might be right, just seems a bit much though, 1gig is not giant but its not bare minimums either

Thanks for the link and help

Cheers

Micha · Post by **Micha** » Thu Jun 24, 2004 5:23 am

Maybe it is Atmosphere? Seems to be rather a resource eating beast:
http://www.planetz.com/forums/viewtopic ... 5&start=20