Pro Tools MP 8.0.5 is suddenly annoyingly slow

[philmont702a]

Hi,
I've been using PT 8 MP for a year or two now, so I'm still a newbie, but know just enough to be pretty dangerous. I recently recorded a live performance, which means big .wav files for a full band without vocalists (piano, acoustic guitar, bass, drums, cello, keyboards). This was done on a laptop, and everything went great. (Go Pro Tools!)

I get the files home, back 'em up and transfer them to my desktop workstation (see details below). Now, I haven't done anything with PT for about a month now, but I open the program up and it is really, really, reaaaalllllyyy slow. I mean, click the icon, go heat up your dinner, eat half of it and come back and wait another couple minutes slow. Annoying, right? Well the confusing part is that nothing else on my computer is slow. I run an assortment of computer intensive programs including the full adobe suite (lightroom, photoshop, illlustrator, premiere, etc.) and often run them at the same time, and have never had a problem. Oh, and I still don't. The only program with an issue, is PT 8 MP. It is so slow, that I often get the windows error "APPHANG" - which as far as I can research, just means that the program isn't responding in a reasonable time frame and windows thinks it has frozen. But, if I wait it out (sometimes up to 30 minutes) it recovers until I make it think again. (Meaning, every click of the mouse takes time for the program to think, whether it's clicking "file" at the top of the screen, or actually trying to edit the sound files...)

I went through the troubleshooting page. I reinstalled the program, updated it to the current version (8.0.5) and nothing has changed. Then I thought it was the size of the wav files for the live performance. So, I chopped them all up and separated them into separate sessions and cleared out all unused regions for each session, etc. Still, the program doesn't speed up. This was never a problem before, and I haven't made any changes to my computer since I built it myself.

I would love to hear some ideas/suggestions as to the root cause of this horrible slowdown.

Thanks in advance!

PSW

Observation: After reinstalling PT, the shortcut icon didn't show up with the PT logo, just the windows "tell me what I am" logo. After updating, still the shortcut doesn't show the PT logo. Maybe that helps you somehow?

My setup: Computer connected to M-audio Fast Track Ultra via USB 2.0 connected to computer directly(not through usb hub) running PT 8 MP 8.0.5

Computer specs:
Windows 7 64-bit Home
AMD 4 core processor (Thuban Black Edition 3.4 GHz)
8 GB RAM
Operating system installed on 120 GB SSD Drive connected via SATA III
All Documents and Settings and programs installed on two 1 GB WD Black 7200 rpm drives in RAID 0 connected by SATA II.

Extra peripherals: Canon Scanner and a USB hub for the random connection of camera or phone.

Troubleshooting Attempted in order from the Sticky:
- PC has plenty of computing power
- Plugins - all original plugins with MP with MP3 added and currently have 14 day trial for DINR
- Hard drive for PT and Windows are separate and both very fast.
- M-Audio Fast Track Ultra drivers are up to date and reinstalled.
- M-Audio Fast Track Ultra connected only via USB for power.
- I have checked the exact same setup (fast track ultra to PC laptop via USB cable) just like it was set up to record the event and it works fine - so the problem exists on the desktop machine.
- Graphics Cards are all ATI


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Sandra Hardware Report:

Computer
Model : GigaByte GA-890FXA-UD5

Processor
Model : AMD Phenom(tm) II X4 965 Processor
Speed : 3.42GHz
Cores per Processor : 4 Unit(s)
Type : Quad-Core
Integrated Data Cache : 4x 64kB, Synchronous, Write-Back, 2-way, Exclusive, 64 byte line size
L2 Cache : 4x 512kB, ECC, Synchronous, Write-Back, 16-way, Exclusive, 64 byte line size
L3 Cache : 6MB, ECC, Synchronous, Write-Back, 48-way, 64 byte line size, 4 threads sharing

Computer
Mainboard : GigaByte GA-890FXA-UD5
BIOS : Award (OEM) F2 05/14/2010
Bus(es) : ISA X-Bus PCI PCIe USB FireWire/1394 i2c/SMBus
Multi-Processor (MP) Support : No
Multi-Processor Advanced PIC (APIC) : No
Total Memory : 8GB DIMM DDR3

Chipset
Model : ATI (AMD) RD890 single slot GFX Hydra
Front Side Bus Speed : 201MHz

Chipset
Model : AMD F10 Athlon 64/Opteron/Sempron HT Hub
Front Side Bus Speed : 2x 2GHz (4GHz)
Total Memory : 8GB DIMM DDR3
Channels : 2
Memory Bus Speed : 2x 670MHz (1.34GHz)

Memory Module(s)
Memory Module : G.Skill F3-10666CL9-4GBRL 4GB DIMM DDR3 PC3-10700U DDR3-1334 (9-9-9-25 4-34-10-5)
Memory Module : G.Skill F3-10666CL9-4GBRL 4GB DIMM DDR3 PC3-10700U DDR3-1334 (9-9-9-25 4-34-10-5)

Video System
Video Adapter : ATI Radeon HD 4600 Series (320 SM4.1 750MHz, 1GB DDR3 1.6GHz 128-bit, PCIe 2.00 x16)
Video Adapter : ATI Radeon HD 4600 Series (320 SM4.1 750MHz, 1GB DDR3 1.6GHz 128-bit, PCIe 2.00 x16)

Graphics Processor
STREAM GP Processor : ATI Radeon HD 4600 Series (320SP 8C 750MHz, 1GB DDR3 1.6GHz 128-bit)
STREAM GP Processor : ATI Radeon HD 4600 Series (320SP 8C 750MHz, 1GB DDR3 1.6GHz 128-bit)

Storage Devices
Crucial C300-CTFDDAC128MAG (128GB, SATA600, 2.5", SSD) : 119GB (C:)
AMD 2+0 Stripe/RAID0 (2TB, RAID) : 2TB (E:)
AMD 2+0 Stripe/RAID0 (498GB, RAID) : 464GB (L:)
Generic STORAGE DEVICE (USB) : N/A (D:)
Generic STORAGE DEVICE (USB) : N/A (I:)
Generic STORAGE DEVICE (USB) : N/A (J:)
Generic STORAGE DEVICE (USB) : N/A (K:)
ATAPI iHAS424 Y (7.6GB, RAID, DVD+-RW, CD-RW) : 7GB (F:)
ATAPI iHAS424 Y (RAID, DVD+-RW, CD-RW) : N/A (G:)

Logical Storage Devices
Hard Disk (C:) : 119GB (NTFS) @ Crucial C300-CTFDDAC128MAG (128GB, SATA600, 2.5", SSD)
Main Drive (E:) : 2TB (NTFS) @ AMD 2+0 Stripe/RAID0 (2TB, RAID)
Secondary (L:) : 464GB (NTFS) @ AMD 2+0 Stripe/RAID0 (498GB, RAID)
Removable Drive (D:) : N/A @ Generic STORAGE DEVICE (USB)
Removable Drive (I:) : N/A @ Generic STORAGE DEVICE (USB)
Removable Drive (J:) : N/A @ Generic STORAGE DEVICE (USB)
Removable Drive (K:) : N/A @ Generic STORAGE DEVICE (USB)
M-Powered (F:) : 7GB (CDFS) @ ATAPI iHAS424 Y (7.6GB, RAID, DVD+-RW, CD-RW)
Optical Drive (G:) : N/A @ ATAPI iHAS424 Y (RAID, DVD+-RW, CD-RW)

Peripherals
LPC Hub Controller 1 : ATI (AMD) IXP SB600/700/800 SMBUS Controller
LPC Hub Controller 2 : ATI (AMD) SB700/800 LPC host controller
LPC Legacy Controller 1 : ITE IT8720F
Audio Device : Giga-Byte IXP SB600 High Definition Audio Controller
Audio Codec : Realtek Semi High Definition Audio
Audio Device : Hightech Information System RV730XT Audio device [Radeon HD 4670]
Audio Codec : ATI (AMD) HDMI Audio
Serial Port(s) : 1
Parallel Port(s) : 1
Disk Controller : Giga-Byte SB700/800 SATA Controller [Non-RAID5 mode]
Disk Controller : Giga-Byte SB700/800 IDE
Disk Controller : Giga-Byte JMB36X PCIE-to-SATAII/IDE RAID Controller
Disk Controller : Giga-Byte JMB36X PCIE-to-SATAII/IDE RAID Controller
USB Controller 1 : Giga-Byte SB700/800 USB OHCI0 Controller
USB Controller 2 : Giga-Byte SB700/800 USB EHCI Controller
USB Controller 3 : Giga-Byte SB700/800 USB OHCI0 Controller
USB Controller 4 : Giga-Byte SB700/800 USB EHCI Controller
USB Controller 5 : Giga-Byte SB700/800 USB OHCI2 Controller
USB Controller 6 : Giga-Byte SB700/800 USB OHCI0 Controller
USB Controller 7 : Giga-Byte SB700/800 USB EHCI Controller
USB Controller 8 : Giga-Byte Renesas Electronics USB 3.0 Host Controller
FireWire/1394 Controller 1 : Giga-Byte TSB43AB23 1394a-2000 OHCI PHY/link-layer Controller
SMBus/i2c Controller 1 : ATI SB800 SMBus

Printers and Faxes
Printer : Amyuni Document Converter 400 (2400x2400, Colour)
Printer : Amyuni Document Converter 400 (2400x2400, Colour)
Printer : Microsoft XPS Document Writer (600x600, Colour)
Printer : HP LaserJet 6P (600x600)
Fax : Microsoft Shared Fax Driver (200x200)
Printer : Adobe PDF Converter (4000x4000, Colour)

Scanners and Cameras
Scanner : Canon WIA CanoScan 4400F (Scanner, 4800x9600, USB)

Peripherals

Network Services
Network Adapter : Realtek PCIe GBE Family Controller (Ethernet, 1Gbps)
Network Adapter : Realtek PCIe GBE Family Controller #2 (Ethernet)
Network Adapter : Bluetooth Device (Personal Area Network) #3 (Ethernet)

Operating System
Windows System : Microsoft Windows 7 Home 6.01.7601 (Service Pack 1)
Platform Compliance : x64

Windows Experience Index
Current System : 6.7