GUI freezing every 2-5- seconds HELP!

[m:o]

Hey sll,

i`m struggling with a very nasty and frustrating bug/behavior in Live 9.1.2 and i`m wondering if any of you have similar issues.

The GUI completely freezes while i`m adjusting a parameter in Live, or playing notes on the keyboard. While this happens, the parameter won`t move, the note won`t play. I`m currently in contact with the ableton support, but theres no solution yet. Everything from Display drivers, to disabling hardware and quit unnessesary Windows Processes helped me so far. I`ve done a complete reinstall of my Windows an the problem still appears, even on a fresh system.

a picture to describe the problem



i`ve just recorded a simple up/down with the mouse on the volume fader - every few seconds the GUI hangs and the recorded automation won`t get data. This results in the flat/horizontal automation. Every interaction with Live is disturbed - playing notes included. So frustrating as just updated from an WIN XP system which worked flawless for years.

Current System:

i7 4770k
Integrated Intel Grafics (changed that for PCIe Graficcard - no difference)
Gigabyte Z97 UD5H Mainboard
8gb Kingston Ram
WIN 7 Professional
RME Multiface

Every Hardware runs the newest Drivers.

Please anyone has some suggestions??

[NoSonic822]

Control Panel
System
Advanced systems settings
Advanced
Visual Performance

Change the settings in here to optimize visual perfoamcne

(this is all windows 8 that I run) Idk about win 7

[m:o]

Win 7 is trimmed to best performance in the Visual Effect Menu. As i said, i tried everything without results. MOst likely it is an HArdware prolem related tro the motherboard. THinking about returning it.

[Tagor]

frozen gay
do noz

[eyeknow]

wtf?

[m:o]

After changing the motherboard (ASUS Z97 Pro) i have the same problem!!

I`m going mad.....fresh WIn 7 install, only hardware card is the RME Multiface - freezing!!
can`t get anything done.

I`ve been thru all sort of adjusting the bios (Power Saving, CPU adjustments like EIST etc.)
The only thing i haven`t changed ist the Corsair Ram.

Can anyone give me some ideas what to check?
Or someone with a 4770k and z97 pro board?

HELP!!

[Hermanus]

I had similar issues in the past.

The guilty was the new Hard drive disk, 7200rpm 1Tb which died in a matter of 2 months.
Happily, I've just hd the time to ghost image the main partition and successfully reinstall it on a new drive.

in my case, I was clearly hearing the disk was on its way to die, grinding like a mofo more and more.
new hardware can drive one mad sometimes.

Hope you will find a soluce very soon.

Best

[m:o]

Hm, thanks Hermanus

you had the same feezing issues caused by al faulty HD?
The only drive i have installed is a brend new PNY SSD.
I will mount the system drive on an old Seagate for testing - it would be so great to finally find the bad bit.

[eyeknow]

The only thing I can think of is what sample rate are you running? Have you tried the 9.1.3 beta?

[m:o]

I exchanged the SSD with an old HDD and the freezing is gone!!

So i`m thinking about what causes this....

SSD is a PNY Prevail 120 GB with Sandforce Controller.
I updated it`s firmware but nothing changed. I`ve done the usual WIN 7 SSD perfomance tweaks and
TRIM is set up.

Has anyone some insight in the SSD Technical stuff which could cause this freezing?
I seems like the SSD is disturbing the system in a regular interval.

[eyeknow]

Bad drives happen.

[Harmonic Progression]

I agree. RMA the bad SSD.

[m:o]

everyhting is running smooth now. SSD went RMA and current SSD is fine.
thx and bye

[UCAudio]

Did you ever figure out why an SSD drive might cause this issue? I just built a blazing fast new PC with 64 gigs of fast ram etc. I'm getting momentary GUI freeze/lag every 2-3 seconds at all times now in live 9 on Windows 7. I really don't want to have to buy or install a new non SSD drive to fix this after all of the work I've put in to installing everything etc.

Any ideas why a SSD drive would cause this, or could there still be another root cause? I'm using a new Samsung 1TB SSD.