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Old 04-06-2020, 11:34 AM
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Default 2020 Better CPU Handling?

Hey guys. hoping everyone is coping well with the new world dynamic.
It seems to me that PT 2020 is utilizing CPU resources in a better way than before. I'm running a new medium sized session of 37 tracks at a 64 buffer setting, without any problems. It'll grow to about 75-80 tracks by the time I'm done.
I couldn't do this in 2019; it would be at least 256 to give me this kind of result. Of course I have not tested properly, but I know how sessions behave generally.
Can anyone confirm my observations so far?
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Old 04-06-2020, 11:37 AM
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I should also mention that there are a lot of plugins in this session.
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Old 04-06-2020, 12:30 PM
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Seems the same here as 2019.12
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Old 04-06-2020, 12:47 PM
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It works better than 2019.10 for me.
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It works better than 2019.10 for me.
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I must say that I opened the same session in 2019.6, and it kept hanging till I went to 512. Maybe this is a Windows thing/
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yes, and the CPU meter seems to be more accurate, showing more activity on different cores.
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Old 04-06-2020, 01:31 PM
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I've been running into some error -6101 issues. I've had to move the buffering up. Could be pilot error.
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Mine seems worse, although I haven't opened an older session yet. I'm getting heavy loading on core 4 of 8, sometimes but not always. Maybe for 10 minutes it'll be fine and then I'll press play again, and core 4 is loaded, CPU at 100% and won't play at all. This was only a small session with around 10 tracks. Buffer setting made no difference, and my export speed was 0.8x ... I exported it again when the core wasn't loaded (not sure why, nothing had changed apart from me sitting there and watching the core) and the export speed was 2x .

Will see how it treats me over the next few weeks
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Mine seems worse, although I haven't opened an older session yet. I'm getting heavy loading on core 4 of 8, sometimes but not always. Maybe for 10 minutes it'll be fine and then I'll press play again, and core 4 is loaded, CPU at 100% and won't play at all. This was only a small session with around 10 tracks. Buffer setting made no difference, and my export speed was 0.8x ... I exported it again when the core wasn't loaded (not sure why, nothing had changed apart from me sitting there and watching the core) and the export speed was 2x .

Will see how it treats me over the next few weeks
10 tracks? That doesn't sound good at all. Have you tried loading the same session in 2019? That would help you know if the problem is from 2020. As much as I like PT, we all know it's stability is way too vulnerable to all sorts of little things that just bounce off the thick skin of other DAWs.

I don't know Macs well, but are you covered as far as OS compatibility etc? Plugin compatibility? When I first installed 2020 I had issues with strange auto-restarts, and sessions would either take too long to quit or just hang indefinitely. I had to manually remove all remnants of 2019 and do an ultra-clean install of 2020. Now it's 'all' good. There are a few strange annoying minor bugs that I've noticed, but PT seems to work well for now. Time will tell, because I haven't yet stretched it far enough.
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Old 04-07-2020, 10:58 AM
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I'm on Mojave at the moment, with a Hackintosh (i7 6700k, 16GB RAM, RX580) and have a drive image of the previous version, but not going to restore just yet. It's been absolutely rock solid the whole time until this version. I have a mix just come in which will be a bit larger, metal track so I'll start using folder tracks and stuff. Maybe it was just that session :/ If I get too many buffer errors then I'll probably go back. I never ever get them normally. I have a RayDAT and do everything at 128 buffer with no problem. I'd use 64 but pro tools simply does not work with VIs at 64.


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10 tracks? That doesn't sound good at all. Have you tried loading the same session in 2019? That would help you know if the problem is from 2020. As much as I like PT, we all know it's stability is way too vulnerable to all sorts of little things that just bounce off the thick skin of other DAWs.

I don't know Macs well, but are you covered as far as OS compatibility etc? Plugin compatibility? When I first installed 2020 I had issues with strange auto-restarts, and sessions would either take too long to quit or just hang indefinitely. I had to manually remove all remnants of 2019 and do an ultra-clean install of 2020. Now it's 'all' good. There are a few strange annoying minor bugs that I've noticed, but PT seems to work well for now. Time will tell, because I haven't yet stretched it far enough.
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