Live won't recover after CPU-overload.

olke · Post by **olke** » Wed Aug 24, 2005 8:58 am

CPU:
Dell inspiron 8600 with Pentium-M @ 1.4ghz,
512 mb of ram.
Sound card: SIGMATEL STAC 9750 AC97 with "Asio4all" sound driver.

OS: Windows XP Professional

I have great problems with CPU overload. Quite often, the CPU gets overloaded (even though the arrangement is quite small with maybe 1 or 2 vst:s (bassline + chords), a beat, some compression and some reverb/delay), and afterwards Live won't "recover" wich results in a VERY slow GUI where everything lags and is very, very slow, even though the cpu usage-meter is showing, say, 1-5% of usage.

I can understand that the computer can get overloaded, but I'd really like to see Live recover afterwards without having to restart/reboot.

timothyallan · Post by **timothyallan** » Sat Aug 27, 2005 2:01 am

Yeah, it can sometimes take me 20 minutes to open taskmanager and kill live when it does this. I really dont like doing a hard reset on my computer so I usually just wait it out.

In Reaktor, if the CPU jumps past its limits, it shuts the audio engine off and you can use the PC like normal. It would be -awesome- if Live had a togglable (is that a word?) option to disable the audio engine if the CPU goes above 100%.

-tim