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Old 10-26-2011, 09:48 PM
Dimak415 Dimak415 is offline
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Default Re: 9.0.5 "Running out of CPU Power"

I dunno guys:
I would start first with what the error is referring to: The CPU power. I would think that a quad core (8 core with hyper-threading) 4.0 Ghz i7 processor can handle these projects just fine. I know it can, because prior to 9.0.5, it did. Even with projects running close to 80%, I would not get that message.

They must have changed something about how ProTools utilizes processing power (I'm pretty sure they did because they limited the CPU usage to 90% from 99%). That said, it has not improved our systems at all, it has hurt them tremendously. In order for PT to think we are running out of processing power, there must a spike in CPU usage that triggers the message. Either these spikes did not occur prior to 9.0.5 or they didn't trigger the message because they were momentary and could be resolved in the buffer.

Now I could be completely off base here. But judging by the fact that everything worked great in 9.0.1 (other than common 9.0.1 bugs) and 9.0.5 suddenly causes these issues, I would start there. Lets try to trouble shoot this down.

All of that said, I received a free upgrade to 10 today! Lets see if that fixes it :) I'll still have 9 (I think) so I'll continue to try to resolve it.
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