ProTools 12 Ultimate - CPU Overload without playing

[jeam25]

Originally Posted by Aquic

Hi, I do not have as much technical knowledge as you guys, but I've been using ProTools since its version 4, back in the year 1997-1998 if my memory does not fail, and this has never happened before. The processor was never a problem for ProTools because that's what the DSP cards were for, to process. And at any case, when we all started loading plugins in native mode because our sessions used up the capacity of our DSPs, at least in my particular case, the only thing that was running out in my system were the 192 voices, because I have always worked with large sessions. But never in my life the processing capacity of the CPU was 60%, it never reached beyond 25% -30% in the most complicated session.

In truth, I do not have as much technical knowledge as you do, but as we say in my country: "It does not enter in my head" that my current system, flagship of a company, with 64 gigs of RAM which is more than 200% of the RAM that I have ever had in any previous computer, and that fast PCIe SSD hard drive, 12 Cores, etc ... have these CPU consumptions so exaggerated, REMEMBER ... Without even doing play. This is really annoying. Who is in charge of Avid at this moment, Homer Simpson?

Hi i know this is frustrating but i have a pretty shy system compare to yours and at idle PT blank session don't have a single unit of cpu % usage . Right now i working a session with 7 instances of Xpand 2 , 3 Kontak players , 2 Ezdrummer , 2 Ample sounds aco guitars VI , 1 East West SO Play and 2 Hybrids . All of this gives me 1% of usage at idle on that session and around 8-10% on playback . All os this using HS 10.13.4 that is not supported yet because it have serious cpu problem with PT according to Avid . So there have to be something else going on there . I know other users can agree on this too.

But if you have patience we all can help you to find the cause .