Weird jump in audio load

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Hi,

I’m experiencing a weird jump in my audio load lately. Nothing has changed on my system, no windows or driver updates, no changes to plug-in setup etc. However, lately, songs that would run between 20 and 40% load are now going up to 80% and sometimes over 100% causing crackles.

I’ve run LatencyMon for 3-4 hours and it’s more than happy (in fact it’s better than my monstrous desktop - which is an investigation for another day…) and I’ve run diagnostic tests and benchmark tests on the ssds, all good.

Anyone have any ideas what to check next?

Cheers,

P

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I had a thought.

Windows update has been bugging me on this machine about some updates, which I haven’t done, cos everything’s been working fine. Could it be that doing something in the background causing this increase in load?

P

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You ought to be able to see if the update process is running in the Windows task manager.

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Another place to look (if you’re comfortable doing that sort of thing) is the Windows Task Scheduler. I am often amazed at the number of Tasks that are scheduled at regular intervals - much more often than I would think necessary.

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Thanks guys, I’ll have a look into both those…

P

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Wasn’t there an issue sometime back where Cantabile was still trying to update from a previous accidental update click? Couldn’t find it on forum search, but remember the discussion. Task mgr was showing cpu spike on Cantabile.