After recently giving up on my old Win7 studio pc, which had begun randomly crashing, I found a newer Dell Precision t1700 with Win10 Pro installed and proceeded to spend the next week or two trimming it and tweaking it best as I could. I got it to the point where everything seemed to be in order, hooked it up in the studio and spent a few more hours updating and tweaking it further. However, the performance of my most trusted SAW and SAC programs is suffering big time for reasons I haven't been able to track down yet.
Both SAC and SAW - both with link activated and SAW running independently - come grinding to a halt after a few minutes buffer overruns (or is it underruns?.... I don't recall at the moment). Neither program shows any appreciable MT or CPU load. In fact, SAW displays a maximum of 2% MT load in the fairly simple session I was trying to work with the other day. Initial tracking of acoustic guitar using the SAC/SAW link, with 4 mics and the jms metronome plugin showed no signs of stress. The problems showed up while preparing for a vocal overdub and have continued ever since.
Initially, during the session, I played around with buffers in the RME panel and discovered that I couldn't even run 4x64 without this glitching, grinding to a halt thing. To make troubleshooting a bit easier, I am now only testing in SAW. I haven't timed the occurrence of the problem, but it appears to be pretty regular - within a couple of minutes of hitting play. So I've got that to go on this morning - and that's where I'm at.
I've done all or most all of Bob's tweaks, except for the couple of force this and that options in SAW that Bob usually recommends when there's issues (and which I have never ever had to engage before). I've also gone into BIOS and disabled things like hyperthreading and speedstep (or whatever that feature is called) and anything else I could think of that might help performance.
I'm about to head down to troubleshoot some more now, but I could sure use some suggestions. Please throw some ideas at me, if you can. I know there are folk here that know computers a whole lot more than I do (with my hard knocks schooling) and I could sure benefit from your unique combination of SAC/SAW/PC knowledgebase smarts!
Thanks in advance......
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