[RWP] Weird laggy performance issue

[Jim Snowbarger]

How about switching to multitrack tape.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "TheOreoMonster" <TheOreoMonster at reaperacc.es>
To: "Reapers Without Peepers" <rwp at reaaccess.com>
Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2014 6:51 AM
Subject: Re: [RWP] Weird laggy performance issue


> Have you tried the good old fashion restart the OS yet?
> On Aug 7, 2014, at 6:37 AM, Scott Chesworth <scottchesworth at gmail.com> 
> 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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