[wreckthisplace]

Hey all,

This seemed to have come out of the blue. I am running the current update of Pro Tools. I'm not sure if this started right after the update. My memory is a bit hazy on that one. Older sessions with a decent amount of plugins or sessions with few plugins that take up a lot of CPU will simply not play without the CPU spiking or the audio cracking and popping unless I reduce my processors from using 7 out of 8 to using 2 out of 8. I also did a test on a session using on software instrument and when using 7 out of the 8 processors, it seemed to use at least 10-15% more CPU than when I switched it to using 2 out of the 8 processors. This has never happened before. I tried trashing all of the prefs, the DAE folder etc, but the problem still seems to be there.

Anyone experience this before?

Any idea how I may go about fixing this?

I am using a Hackintsoh, but as I said, everything has always worked great up until now.

Thanks.

OS X 10.7.5
Pro Tools 10.3.3

3.39 GHz Intel Core i7
16 GB 1333 MHz DDR3 RAM