pro tools slow performance renders it unusable.

[falcondoodle]

Originally Posted by panamajack

My first inclination would be to use control panel and click on device manager. If any of your hardware shows a yellow exclamation point, there is some sort of conflict.

An interrupt conflict will also create that sort of weird mouse response. If you have a PC mouse, change to a USB mouse, or vice versa.

If you just added a MIDI controller of some sort, it may need a device driver to work properly: it may not be Plug and Play.

no exclamation points in device manager and i've made sure all drivers are up to date. didn't add a midi controller. whenever i drag over some midi notes or click a certain part of a track, it takes about 3-5 seconds and then i get the reaction.

[musicman691]

Originally Posted by falcondoodle

no exclamation points in device manager and i've made sure all drivers are up to date. didn't add a midi controller. whenever i drag over some midi notes or click a certain part of a track, it takes about 3-5 seconds and then i get the reaction.

I would suggest taking a look at what other processes might be running and grabbing cpu cycles. There used to be a routine in Windows called msmsgs.exe (Windows Messenger) that ran all the time whether you needed it or not and that WILL bring a machine to it's knees. Best disable it somehow if you have it.

[The Weed]

And get and run LatencyMon to see what may be causing issues.

Have a look at this thread too for other suggestions.

[albee1952]

And post a Sandra report. Maybe you have too little RAM. Maybe your recording drive is too full(most drives need a good 20% of free space at all times). If the rig worked great 6 months ago, what changed? New programs, updates, new plugin, some new piece of hardware.....The time to save an image of a system drive is when things are running well. That way, you could try reverting to that image. It may also be worth running a few programs like a good anti-virus, malewarebyte's anti-malware and Spybot Search&Destroy. If they report bad stuff, let them clean out the bad stuff and then uninstall those programs(you don't want them constantly running in the background).

[falcondoodle]

Originally Posted by albee1952

And post a Sandra report. Maybe you have too little RAM. Maybe your recording drive is too full(most drives need a good 20% of free space at all times). If the rig worked great 6 months ago, what changed? New programs, updates, new plugin, some new piece of hardware.....The time to save an image of a system drive is when things are running well. That way, you could try reverting to that image. It may also be worth running a few programs like a good anti-virus, malewarebyte's anti-malware and Spybot Search&Destroy. If they report bad stuff, let them clean out the bad stuff and then uninstall those programs(you don't want them constantly running in the background).

what is a sandra report? i've got 12GB of ram and protools only uses a max of 8 i believe. all other apps have been shut down. i read somewhere about not having the edit window open while youre doing midi editing. it helps a little but still slow and barely usable. nothing changed, this issue started overnight. ran malware bytes. this is frustrating.

[zedhed]

Originally Posted by falcondoodle

what is a sandra report?

http://duc.avid.com/showthread.php?t=359978

[musicman691]

Originally Posted by falcondoodle

what is a sandra report? i've got 12GB of ram and protools only uses a max of 8 i believe. all other apps have been shut down. i read somewhere about not having the edit window open while youre doing midi editing. it helps a little but still slow and barely usable. nothing changed, this issue started overnight. ran malware bytes. this is frustrating.

PT11 and above can use as much memory as your machine has that's leftover from whatever the operating system grabs. The only time having more than one window open should cause issues is if your video system is slow. Or you're recording to the system drive if it's a spinner.

[falcondoodle]

new update: I closed all windows except for midi editor, and it got slightly better, but when i was playing the song and editing the the composition at the same time, things were normal. everything happened instantly. no waiting. no lagging. i disabled my video card and tried to use the onboard graphics which didn't help at all. my video card is running games just fine so i don't see how it could be running slow for pro tools but fine when running games or video editing on adobe premiere.