CPU Spikes and drop-outs in demo version of Cubase 11

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I want to figure out how to solve the spike and dropout issue. When I play the demo song that comes with the download of Cubase 11 (Venus Theory Cubase 11 Demo Track), it won’t play smoothly, it’s showing cpu spikes like crazy. Already spent a lot of time reading the blog posts about the similar issue, with no success. I have Ableton and was thinking of switching to Cubase, but if I can’t get Cubase to run without issues like that, it doesn’t make sense to switch. I have no problems with cpu with Ableton running on my laptop.

Windows 10, 16 GB Ram, i7, 1.8 GHz

Any suggestions are appreciated, hope it can be fixed.

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what audio interface ?

what audio buffer size ?

have you run latencymon

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Thanks for help, I think what solved it was to “Activate Steinberg Audio Power Scheme” in Studio Setup > Audio System.

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