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Posted by Sonic_c on Aug-07-2009 19:16:

CPU suddenly high

Hi

I recenly opened a cubase project and just had one z3ta open and started playing some chords with my midi keyboard. Something my pc has never had trouble with.

I noticed some digital drop out and looked at the cpu meter which when i play a big chord 4 keys or more is running at 100%

I have a

AMD Dual core 64 2.4ghz
4 gig DDR2 ram
Emu o4o4 PCI soundcard
And almost a terrabyte of free space

To my knowledge my pc is configured well it has always served me well in the past

any ideas? Could my cpu be on the way out?

Posted by Sonic_c on Aug-07-2009 19:17:

just checked and nexus is fine cpu not even over 4 % so whats happened to my z3ta?

Posted by Nightshift on Aug-07-2009 19:23:

Happened when i had zeta back in the day too.

it started eating like 50% of my cpu like wtf.

Posted by DigiNut on Aug-07-2009 19:52:

It's not the synth that eats up CPU (or not), it's what you're doing in it. You probably have a patch with a bunch of effects stacked up.

Posted by DjStephenWiley on Aug-07-2009 19:53:

i've read about it causing problems like this in 64 bit windows. it doesn't have vst 2.4 drivers i believe

Posted by Nightshift on Aug-07-2009 19:58:

quote:
Originally posted by DigiNut
It's not the synth that eats up CPU (or not), it's what you're doing in it. You probably have a patch with a bunch of effects stacked up.

Or a software malfunction.

Such as the Chords of Life preset. used to take like maybe 5% of cpu at the average quality and randomly started eating 20%+ on the lowest quality setting.

tis why i dont use Zeta anymore.

Posted by sixofour.604 on Aug-08-2009 03:34:

Never had these problems before with z3ta.

What was the render quality?

Was the resonance above the blue line?

Actually, z3ta has slowed my pc down once, but that is because I put the wave shaper for all 6 oscilators on an automated x/y pad. [it caused z3ta to use 92% of my cpu..don't try it at home kids.]

Posted by Sonic_c on Aug-08-2009 13:19:

it was on the ob-8 preset i think. But i used to have projects with several z3tas all automated and big patches but my cpu could cope. This is so strange i cant figure it out.

Posted by orTof�nChiLd on Aug-08-2009 13:35:

Thats not good.

Posted by echosystm on Aug-08-2009 13:49:

hackers on your computer, stealing your megahurtz

Posted by parafrNalia on Aug-08-2009 14:25:

Keep that second hand Mary J away from your computer.

Posted by owien on Aug-08-2009 15:42:

lol looks like a complete reinstall that way you can iron out all the bugs and find out whats fucking things up.

Posted by KilldaDJ on Aug-09-2009 10:23:

must be that dope bitch

Posted by Nightshift on Aug-09-2009 21:30:

quote:
Originally posted by parafrNalia
Keep that second hand Mary J away from your computer.

Posted by Sonic_c on Aug-12-2009 00:19:

Lol this could be why

"Volume c: is 54% fragmented you should defragment this drive"

Posted by DJ RANN on Aug-12-2009 00:28:

quote:
Originally posted by Sonic_c
Lol this could be why

"Volume c: is 54% fragmented you should defragment this drive"

Erm, yup that won't help.

Clear case of SBM.

Posted by sixofour.604 on Aug-12-2009 01:22:

Last I heared someone seriously suggest drive defrag was in like 1994

Posted by DJ RANN on Aug-12-2009 04:01:

quote:
Originally posted by sixofour.604
Last I heared someone seriously suggest drive defrag was in like 1994

As I said, a case of SBM.