Can't get new computer to be happy like the i5. Chokes with medium to heavy workload. Details in post.

[Michael Fogarty]

Hi everyone I don't know if I am in the wrong forum. The posts seem to be from a few months ago. Maybe I got behind and got lost. f you are still active I have some questions for you regarding my computer. I am still using my 12 year old i5 and it has been working flawlessly even though I use high powered synths like Omnisphere and others and some orchestrations up to 100 track count. Got a new computer and it is much faster, newer, Windows 11 -64GB RAM and works flawlessly unless I put much on/it, and then chokes even if I raise the latency to 512 -and I am using RME and MOTU AVB interfaces which are known for great latency. I have a tech (and saw a video) about real time performance and it shows the culprit could be the drive I am recording to and try an internal drive. I tried an internal drive and same probl;em. Of course I didn't try moving all of my synth libraries to the internal -just the recording chain. it's really sad. It's the second time I have tried and don't seem to be able to successfully get a new computer working flawlessly. Could it be one of the sticks of RAM? The technician didn't want to try checking yet because it seems the going thought is it is either the interface or the drive, though both interfaces work great on the old computer, and the same type of external SSD drive.
Hopefully yours if you have heard of this problem.

[mettelus]

One thing to check is a deep dive on Services (can type that in the Windows Search bar). So many apps tend to enable services when installing (or worse, every time you manually run them), yet a good number of them can have Properties set to Manual (for when you yourself actively open the associated app), or outright Disabled (for things like "Adobe Acrobat Updater Service"). Unfortunately, there is no good guide for that task, but the descriptions are often fairly detailed for what they do, and services related to a specific app would be ones to call into question for automatic starts. The Task Manager and/or utility apps like LatencyMon, Moo0 System Monitor, or similar can also be helpful. Many background services are set to high priority, so they can be disruptive if you have never taken a look at what is running behind the scenes on your machine. You can also open Services just to see what is "Running" and actively Start/Stop them (right click, same as for "Properties") without actually changing their Properties.... this is often safer for testing, since if you shut everything off, you will eventually hit one that forces the machine to shut down.

Side note with Moo0 System Monitor specifically. The "Portable Version" is highly preferred, since that installs nothing... you just unpack it someplace and run it as needed. It is convenient if you want to just unpack it to a thumb drive so you can check any computer when the need arises. The very two top fields in that... the [Bottleneck] and [Burdened By] will get populated when the machine starts to struggle and is a nice indicator for where to look first to save you time.

[rsinger]

Have you optimized the new computer for audio?

https://www.sweetwater.com/sweetcare/articles/pc-optimization-guide-for-windows-10/

 

[Martin Schiff]

Does the new computer have virus software enabled? If so, disable real-time checking and see if that makes a difference.

[Mr No Name]

I am not a computer expert but I would suggest your problem maybe win 11,

consider reverting back to win 10?

Win 11 is full of microsoft spyware, it would be slowing your computer at every opportunity to gather data.

[pwalpwal]

6 hours ago, Mr No Name said:

I am not a computer expert but

 

[Mr No Name]

[pwalpwal]

That can't have been me I was asleep two hours ago

[pwalpwal]

[John Vere]

And actually Neil posted back when W11 came out how everyone was noticing an improvement in performance. Spyware?? Tin foil hat?