lowkey Posted July 2, 2019 Share Posted July 2, 2019 Hello! I have a 4ghz AMD quad core, 8gb ram & Windows 10 64 bit. CPU core 1 seems to be carrying the majority of the load. In fact, I can easily push it so high it causes crackles & dropouts. The other 3 are barely used at all. I tried enabling Plugin Load Balancing, but CW goes crazy with crackles & dropouts. I tried every audio driver mode with the same results. I also get the same results regardless of what audio interface I use. I have several & tried them all in every mode to no avail, and Load Balancing makes CW unusable. I'd be happy if I could get Plugin Load Balancing to work, or any other method to take some load off core 1. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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lowkey Posted July 2, 2019 Author Share Posted July 2, 2019 I got it sorted shortly after posting. I was running Akai MPC Software as a plugin, and if that plugin was set to use any more than 1 core, Load Balancing was terrible. I set it to use 1 core, then Load balancing worked as intended. Hopefully this can help someone. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cornell comer Posted July 5, 2019 Share Posted July 5, 2019 Hi I had the same cpu spiking problem and then window upgraded to 1903 and all problems solve. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gustabo Posted July 5, 2019 Share Posted July 5, 2019 Turn Load Balancing off. In Prefs>Audio>Configuration File, set "EnableSetThreadIdealProcessor" to False Set "MixThreadCount" to 1 less than you have cores in your Performance Meter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Roseberry Posted July 5, 2019 Share Posted July 5, 2019 Not all processes in a DAW can be multi-threaded (spread across multiple cores). Some virtual-instruments (like UVI Falcon) don't make use of multiple cores. Playing/monitoring in realtime thru an AmpSim plugin using a 32-sample ASIO buffer size is not something that can be heavily multi-threaded. For these and other similar reasons, it's not always possible to have completely balanced load between cores. This is why CPU clock-speed is still the single most important factor when it comes to DAW performance. More cores is certainly beneficial... but not at the expense of significant clock-speed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
msmcleod Posted July 5, 2019 Share Posted July 5, 2019 Note also that plugin load balancing in CbB only affects VST effects, not VSTi's. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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