robert lungren

ok i think i found the reason. The playback cursor refresh rate is tied to audio meters frame rate (Preferences->Customization->Audio Meters), which is set to refresh every 40ms by default (which is 25 fps) and the min value cakewalk let you set is 25 ms (40 fps) unfortunately. As I understand you hardly need more fps for audio meters, and the problem is that playback cursor frame rate is tied to it. Maybe cakewalk codebase doesn't provide a quick way to untie those, and limiting the fps of the whole GUI during playback was a quick hack.

Same for me: 25-30 fps while playback, but becomes 120 fps (very smooth feeling ) when clicking on any of the upper menus (file, edit, views...). Even on the default two-track project. I notices that playback cursor movement is not smooth a while ago, but only recently i saw how smooth things can be, and now it bothers me