Win 11 upgrade from 10 is this normal?

[Pathfinder]

So I finally made the leap, was win 10 Pro, now win 11 Pro. 
So I had to raise the playback buffer....was 256 without issues but had to go to 512-still a little weird. 
Is this normal behavior?

Thanks

Edited August 17 by Pathfinder

[HOOK]

When I switched to Win11, I battled my "new" machine for months with bios tweaks.  Then I realized I had forgot to disable core parking - which cured the remainder of my latency problems.

Good luck.

[rsinger]

I'm pretty sure you need to re-optimize your pc for audio when updating between windows versions.

[Pathfinder]

4 hours ago, rsinger said:

I'm pretty sure you need to re-optimize your pc for audio when updating between windows versions.

I th e older days, there were sites where individuals with the knowledge of what to turn off\change whatever in win 7, 8, etc for daws.

Any suggestions? I did ust disable the core parking thanks to th reminder from Hook above.

Thanks

[Amberwolf]

It's possible that extreme gaming optimizations may apply to an audio system.   Back when I had to start using Win10 for one of my systems, I found Black Viper's Windows 10 Service Configuration pages to help quite a lot, without breaking anything. (I used the most extreme configuration that still allowed internet access).  I'd guess they have Win11 info by now. 

[Bristol_Jonesey]

I'm pretty sure that, "these days", the amount of tweaks you need to do are pretty minimal compared to the dark ages of Windows XP & prior.

Turning off core parking as noted above is the biggest one.

[Jeremy Oakes]

……. Turn USB sleepstate to never, turn off Windows sounds are also good ones to do.

J

[Jeremy Oakes]

5 hours ago, Amberwolf said:

It's possible that extreme gaming optimizations may apply to an audio system.   Back when I had to start using Win10 for one of my systems, I found Black Viper's Windows 10 Service Configuration pages to help quite a lot, without breaking anything. (I used the most extreme configuration that still allowed internet access).  I'd guess they have Win11 info by now. 

No, he gave up after W10. But a lot of them apply to W11

J

[rsinger]

18 hours ago, Pathfinder said:

I th e older days, there were sites where individuals with the knowledge of what to turn off\change whatever in win 7, 8, etc for daws.

Any suggestions? I did ust disable the core parking thanks to th reminder from Hook above.

This is the guide I follow - 

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

 

[Pathfinder]

On 8/17/2025 at 9:47 PM, Amberwolf said:

It's possible that extreme gaming optimizations may apply to an audio system.   Back when I had to start using Win10 for one of my systems, I found Black Viper's Windows 10 Service Configuration pages to help quite a lot, without breaking anything. (I used the most extreme configuration that still allowed internet access).  I'd guess they have Win11 info by now. 

I remember him, Black Viper. I used some of his tips also................

[Pathfinder]

Thanks very much folks...........Big difference immediately and I just started with the suggestions............

[Chaps]

On 8/18/2025 at 8:52 AM, rsinger said:

This is the guide I follow - 

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

 

Sweetwater also has a similar page for Windows 11.

https://www.sweetwater.com/sweetcare/articles/windows-11-pc-optimization-for-recording/#Windows-11-system-maintenance