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Originally Posted by tronnyjenkins

Coming from a rock solid (for the most part) PT 10 HD rig on Snow Leopard, so far I am not impressed with how finicky Ultimate is. Sometimes it's just a little laggy feeling, like my cursor isn't keeping up with my mouse. Other times it's 9093 errors with an embarrassingly small amount of plugins in place.

Mac Pro 5,1 3.46 12 core
SSD system drive
7200 1tb session drives
HD Native card
HD IO
Dual Slate Raven, but half the time we don't even have the Raven software running when this is happening


What is the ideal way to set up recording playback engine vs mixing engine? None of the tricks I used to use for 10 seem to work.

I'm running a virtually identical computer with an HDX card with the specs in my sig. For the most part it's the first system since PT10 that works "almost" as smoothly.

I don't do any recording on this system but I always max out the hardware buffer to 1024. The other tip is to use the Disk Playback Cache Size as intended. Max sure you have plenty of physical RAM and I set the Cache Size at 10GB. It should be reading in the green in the System Usage window after one pass through the session.

The screenshot I have attached is a moderately sized session playing back and the Mac Pro is barely registering on the CPU and Disk meters.