[RWP] Weird laggy performance issue

[Chris Belle]

Does reaper have a safe mode by where you can selectively load plug-ins 
till you find one mis-behaving,

In the mean time, can you export your audio and re-import it in to 
another project to work around for now?



On 8/7/2014 5:37 AM, Scott Chesworth wrote:
> Folks, I'm in a bit of a fix here, hoping someone can nudge me in the
> right direction. I'm working on a mix that contains around 50 tracks
> all told by the time you factor in buses and little snippets separated
> for the sake of fake automation. There's a lot of VSTs in the project,
> mainly amp sims. Minimal master bus processing, just the stock
> multiband comp and a smidge of saturation happening there. Out of
> nowhere, Reaper suddenly got really, really slow and laggy. As in, if
> I hit play, stop, move to an item etc, it takes a good 5 seconds to
> respond, and the tales of fx are all juddery and broken up. Here's
> what I've looked at so far, but perhaps I missed something.
>
> - I retraced my steps and removed the last few things added, no difference
> - I've frozen pretty much every track I can. Aside from taking an age
> to do that (presumably due to the same issue scuppering that process),
> no difference.
> I've rebuilt all peaks, just in case.
> _ I've cranked the latency as high as it'll go in the control panel
> for my interface, no difference.
> - Tried switching to a different screen reader from my usual NVDA, no
> difference.
> - Loaded another similarly big project, which also behaves pretty
> badly, so I'm guessing this is a setting of some description or some
> sort of cache that needs flushing out.
> - CPU load and RAM usage seem fine, lower than I would've expected
> actually for a beast of a project like this
>
> Any thoughts on what I might've missed? This is driving me barmy!
>
> Scott
>
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