No it’s not a lack of CPU that’s the issue, it’s how it’s made available to cubase that is, and what I’m struggling to figure out. This is the case with any and every project. My graphics card is a Radeon HD, and yeah I’ve submitted a support request. Apparently this is a common issue as presented by rumlee in the link; its something to do with real time processing apparently and how other devices interrupt threads on shared processors thereby preventing the cpu from calculating the info in time for the buffer, resulting in stuttering/pops/clicks. However none of my fixes have worked so far. I can’t seem to get the cpu to give more priority to cubase.