dam this it sooo nippy new lap top and its spiking on CPU, I have 4 cores at 2ghz each and 4 gig DDR3… not good, I’m only using the internal sound card… will it help to hook my audio knotrol one up? any advice?
buy a mac 
for some reason the resource manager in windows is only showing 50% processor usage where as in ableton is going up to 138+%… strange…
I had the issue a long time ago with a cracked version of Live.
Plug-ins ? Are you using 3rd party plugs? reverbs etc… ?
solution, deactivate your vst’s from the preference’s then check it ?
you may have a plug that is not happy in Ableton or visa versa (which is a common cpu spiker)
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Lenners
tried the same project on my desk top with the plugins etc and its only at 11% max! hummmm… think it must be some plugins playing up as I installed 2 new ones but I also installed them on my desk top with no issues… strange. will play around with the plugins and see if it helps, cheers
I’ve tried uninstalling all plugins and reinstalling ableton with nothing, even when I play the demo tune it hits 70%+
Something really isnt right… I’m using the same ableton on my desktop with no issues… anyone have any more advice?
To find out if it is something running on your laptop that is causing the problem:
Start - in Search box (or run in XP) type msconfig press return
On the general page select selective startup and uncheck Load Startup Items
(you could also go into services tab and tick the hide all Microsoft Services then uncheck all items you don’t need to run laptop with sound)
Restart PC and try again.
If that solves the issue it is either program running at startup or a service. You can then narrow it down.
If it doesn’t make any difference let us know.
that makes sense mate, I have a CPU meter on my desk top and it sitting at 3% most of the time… but I just noticed its jumps around alot, one min at 1%, then 26% back to 3% then like 36%…
Task manager show system idle process as using most of the CPU, I’m thinking the system has maybe crashed during a sleep or somthing, sure I had this on an older laptop and there is some way to clear it as such but I cant remember how?
Edit: I could be wrong here after a few google searches…
[quote]gofunk (15/02/2011)[hr]but I just noticed its jumps around alot, one min at 1%, then 26% back to 3% then like 36%…
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This sounds like a hareware driver issue to me. Have you installed any hardware drivers, maybe sound card. After msconfig, uninstalling any new drivers is the next step.
Well installed my AK1 drivers but this was to combat the issue, ie it was happening before I installed… thats it, the laptop is only 2 or 3 months old and I havent really used it other then for email & internet. hummmmmm strange…
ASIO4ALL ?
If you have it might be worth uninstalling, testing and reinstall.
nope never installed that… done the MSconfig and disbale anything I didnt need, still the same issue. I’m just making the factory back up disks just in case. Looks like I’ll have do some kind of recovery I think as I cant think of anything else…?
hey ant, I tried opening in safe mode and I got no spikes, so it must be a start up or service issue, any idea as to how I can tell which one?
edit now I’m even more confused, change the lap top to high performance and its ok when polugged in, if its not pluged in and on power saver this is when I get the issue iot would seem
[quote]gofunk (15/02/2011)[hr]
edit now I’m even more confused, change the lap top to high performance and its ok when polugged in, if its not pluged in and on power saver this is when I get the issue iot would seem[/quote]
Can you change your power profile when on battery to be the same as plugged in?
yeah I can mate but for some reason ableton is still using 24% on the demo tune so I’m still not 100%… I’ll see how it goes I guess, thanks mate
Download and run process explorer, it is like task manager, but it gives more detail
cheers ant, not 100% what to look for in that but I’ll figure it out 