Cubase SX3 Stuttering On Playback After Restart

[brandondrury]

Last night I recorded a band. Everything worked fine. Apparently the power went out (and like an idiot I had my battery backup on another system). I sat down to start the mix today. When I fired up the session, I hit play. The sound began to stutter as if the CPU was overloaded.

After pressing F12, I noticed that CPU usages was a tad passed 50%.

I removed all plugins from the session. It still stuttered.

I changed the latency on my Delta 1010 to various settings from 64 samples to 768 samples. That made no difference.

When I imported just a single wav file into Cubase, the problem was reduced, but still definitely there. The night before I had 10 inputs engaged (from the F4 window). I changed that to just stereo inputs and it seemed to reduce the problem, but again, it's still definitely there.

I'm using the latest version of Cubase SX3 - Cubase 3.1.1 944.

This same problem occured about a month ago, but I don't know if it was a loss of power that caused it or not. I immediately formatted my computer. This fixed the problem for about a month of hard usage. Now the problem is back and I really don't want to waste 4 hours installing samples, drivers, and plugins again if I do not have to.

Besides these 2 occurances, Cubase SX3 has been bulletproof for me.


Brandon

[rickzappa]

im having the same problem with cubase sx 3 and my motu, i have 3 gigs of ram & dual p 3.4 ghz processor and a sata 250 gig hd, buffer is set high, after about 60 seconds of playpack of a heavy mixing session the cpu meter starts spiking and i start to get heavy stuttering, i used it in heavier way before with less ram and no problem,, i think it may be a direct x problem or driver conflict of some sort but i dont know what to do, i since updated direct x but nothings working, any ideas?

[richiebee]

Are you using any plugins? I used to use this master limiter... can't remember who made it but it was a reputable company who was giving away this freebie. Anyway, it made my CPU spike after a short period too. I stopped using it and haven't had the problem since.

If you are using any plugins, try disabling them. If that solves the problem, introduce them back one at a time until you find your culprit. Could be a CPU management problem or something like that.

If that's not it, does it happen on all songs? Do you defrag your hard drive regularly? Real time anti-virus turned on?