Hi, related thread: http://groups.google.com/group/alt.steinberg.cubase/browse_thread/thread/105112978ca4e2e9# I notice that many people experience a similair problem with the core2 Quad. Mine is the Q6600 Asus P5K-VM motherboard, Win XP home SP2. Cubase 4 Multi processor enabled. No matter what I do when Cubase CPU meter is 100% the load across the 4 cores in task manager is never above 40% on each core. This means Cubase is not utilising the full potential of the CPU. Has anyone got a Q6600 running with task manger showing nearer to 100% usage on each core when Cubase is also at or near maximum? As far as I can tell it is not a Windows issue beacuse Photoshop shows 100% usage on all cores when rendering. I have benchmarked my system and it compares well with similair systems so again don't think this is a system issue, the system is fast but seems under utililsed by Cubase 4. Any ideas and has anyone actually got the Q6600 running near 100% on each core with Cubase, mine does not even get near 50% before Cubase gets to 100% and chokes - not to say performance is not good, it is excellent but to be using less than half of each core seems strange. Look forward to hearing what you guys think. Martin
Renk900 a écrit : > > Any ideas and has anyone actually got the Q6600 running near 100% on > each core with Cubase, mine does not even get near 50% before Cubase > gets to 100% and chokes - not to say performance is not good, it is > excellent but to be using less than half of each core seems strange. I dont' jave technical stuff to tel you, but I remember something quite simiar, in a way, when I was was working in studios with an older version of Protools. As you may know, protools studio equipment concept is to have external DSP farms that would do all the work. At the time, thee was something very frustrating: If you loaded , say a Waves L1, it would use a whole DSP. Of course It wouldn't use is to 100%. But the processing power that was left could only be used by other intances of L1. Or some other precise Waves plugin (this out to be told by a sound ingenner , because I don't recall it correctly, I think). So you could be short of processing power with only a few plugins if you chose them without any strategy. I think this has been greatly improved with more recent versions of protools (I was talking about stuff I saw in 2000-2002). What I mean is that it's quite the same with cubase, I guess. I guess one CPU cannot treat oranges and apples at the same time if the software is not optimized to do so. What would be interesting for you is to hear from a person who has a Q6600 too, but who is running Cubase 5 with it. From my point of wiew, cubase reporting 100% CPU usage is just cubase saying "whatever you have installed, I cannot use more power, technically". A bit like someone who installed 4Go of RAM in a machine that runs a 32bit OS. Yes, there is more than the 2Go memory available to the applications. No, the part that exceeds those 2Go cannot be used by Cubase (only my experience, here, not absolute and verified truth). Huey
On Fri, 9 Oct 2009 02:05:32 -0700 (PDT), Renk900 <> wrote: >Hi, > >related thread: http://groups.google.com/group/alt.steinberg.cubase/browse_thread/thread/105112978ca4e2e9# > >I notice that many people experience a similair problem with the core2 >Quad. Mine is the Q6600 Asus P5K-VM motherboard, Win XP home SP2. >Cubase 4 >Multi processor enabled. > >No matter what I do when Cubase CPU meter is 100% the load across the >4 cores in task manager is never above 40% on each core. > >This means Cubase is not utilising the full potential of the CPU. > >Has anyone got a Q6600 running with task manger showing nearer to 100% >usage on each core when Cubase is also at or near maximum? > >As far as I can tell it is not a Windows issue beacuse Photoshop shows >100% usage on all cores when rendering. > >I have benchmarked my system and it compares well with similair >systems so again don't think this is a system issue, the system is >fast but seems under utililsed by Cubase 4. > >Any ideas and has anyone actually got the Q6600 running near 100% on >each core with Cubase, mine does not even get near 50% before Cubase >gets to 100% and chokes - not to say performance is not good, it is >excellent but to be using less than half of each core seems strange. > >Look forward to hearing what you guys think. > >Martin Go to Apple and quit worrying about shit like that and make music.
On Sun, 11 Oct 2009 21:39:57 -0700, Guy <> > > >Go to Apple and quit worrying about shit like that and make music. Right, then you will be using 1 core out of 8 for Logic. Amazing how Logic users are getting system overloads on their 8 core macs with two audio tracks. Even more unstable is the Logic 9 Smow Leopard combo. Ap
