I too have seen unusual asio spikes/Dropouts using the 10.0.50 update(Pretty unusable) , I’ve had to go back to 10.0.20 and everything is cool again. I’m suspecting that it’s a plugin that needs an update. There has been a recent windows update as well so that could also be a factor.
I cannot really reproduce this here on my Windows 10 system. As far as I could gather, this is independent from certain projects and happens on all projects that worked fine in 10.0.40? What about plug-ins? Does this also happen with Steinberg-only projects? I have searched our support tickets but could not find anything unusual. There was one customer who reported issues with drop outs that go away if any track in the project is frozen and unfrozen again. Does this help in any of the reported cases here?
Either way, I created a bug entry for this one now. The ID has been added to the topic subject.
I actually rolled back my whole system to before the install so can’t do any testing now. When I did that I was also getting a crash and it turned out Magic a/b was crashing Cubase when it had a missing file. I’m assuming this was the cause for the 10.0.5 crash but I am bit reluctant to install that now given the problems everyones else is having.
Havn’t used Cubase for a long while, opened it yesterday (without knowing this thread) and had a lot of drop outs.
Updated to 10.0.5 without better result. Instead I opened c9 which behaved the very same way.
Today I tried my luck again with lots of drop outs and “freezing”. The whole screen freezes and do not react to any commands. When monitoring the audio performance meter, it’s frozen too. Until it freezes, I notice way more action on it than usual.
Noticed if I am able to open the studio setting window and click reset, the system unfreezes and I can continue recording/playback.
A few minutes ago the whole system just crashed and shut down. No message no nothing just, boom: over and out.
I really do hope Steinberg will fix this soon as Cubase for the time being is absolutely unusable in this house.
This is not the reported issue. An update from 10.0.40 to 10.0.50 is causing high CPU usage (topping out ) and ASIO spikes. Reverting to 10.0.40 in some cases (like mine) seems to resolve the issue. Cubase 9.5 is also not affected
48Khz sample rate.
24 bit depth
Buffer didn’t fix it, went up to 1024
ASIO guard medium
All plugs up to date
I didn’t change anything
Also tried to update again last night. Still exhibits the same behavior. I still wonder if this has anything to do with Cubase and high core count Skylake-X chips. I’ve made a new thread about 10.0.3 when using low buffers and random pops and clicks that doesn’t happen with Reaper or Studio One. Disabling Turbo in the BIOS fixes it but then disables your overclock which is a pretty big difference in performance. I haven’t tried disabling Turbo for 10.0.5 to see if it fixes the issue.
The real odd thing though is task manager CPU usage for Cubase is actually double that of 10.0.3 for the same project. I will check some of the other options.