John Engelhardt

Yeah I tried all of that. I've about everything I could do just short of wiping the computer clean. I just did that about 3 months ago and it take a few days to put everything back on the computer so I don't want to do that again. lol Today I downloaded reaper just to see if it did the same. It worked flawlessly. I laid down a lot of test tracks with a lot of vst instruments and barely used any cpu. No pops or dro outs. I went back to cakewalk and still ran horribly. I noticed that it shows cakewalk itself using a lot of resources when its running bad, but when actually looking at my system performance outside of the program its barely using anything. So sad to say its something with cakewalk. Cakewalk is the only Daw I've ever used all my life so it hurt pretty bad trying out another Daw. LOL I'll keep trying things if I can think of anything else. I refuse to give up Cakewalk.

Well I did the roll back with no luck. Uninstalled and deleted everything I could in registry and started fresh. The engine load shoots up to sometimes over 200% and pops start happening. If I click on timeline while its playing back automatic dropout. My whole family thinks I'm cursed so it is quite possible that at the very moment I did the update my hard drive decided its tired. That would definitely be my luck. Just strange that just before the update it was fine. What I really find strange is that I don't have to be playing back anything. Just sit there and watch the engine load go up on its own.

Been using cakewalk 1990. Never ever had a problem. Cakewalk has always run flawlessly and i usually can run many tracks and vst instruments. Until I did this last update. As soon as I installed it has become useless. Even with one track I get popping and crackling. The Engine load goes way over 100% causing late buffers just sitting there with nothing playing. Literally tried everything. From shutting any program down I could shut down, all the way to reinstalling cakewalk. Never touched any settings or added anything to the computer. Until I did the update I could run 30 tracks without a pop. Hope this gets fixed. was in the middle of a project and not sure what to do now.