I have tried countless of things, but the problem seems unsolvable. For example:
all performance related windows tweaks
disabling c-states
disabling various trash not needed like nvidia sound drivers etc.
using other ASIO drivers
reinstalling (probably almost) all basic drivers
reinstalling Cubase
Of course, setting buffer size to something above 256 remedies the problem, but that’s not an option if you want to actually record anything in real-time.
Any ideas what else I could try or what could somehow be causing this?
Current setup:
M/B: ASUS B450-F
CPU: Ryzen 5 3600x
RAM: 16GB
GPU: 1060 3GB
Audio: SSL 2
OS: Win 10
I did run it at the same time as cubase, yes. Also, forgot to mention I’ve had the same results with 3 different BIOS versions. The current one is the latest.
There is no remarkable difference without latencymon running in the background though. Check my vid around the 00:10 mark, as soon as I enable monitoring on the track, there’s a constant dropout peak every 3rd second or so.
Indeed. There’s a NeuralDSP (amp sim) plugin on that specific one, but that only makes things slightly worse. Here’s a completely empty project with just an empty audio track:
I mean, this does not look normal. It might not cause a dropout, but it’s still extreme.
A while ago I had a long battle with audio interruptions, and in my case the culprit seemed to be Nvidia settings and/or drivers, which were interrupting CPU treads that were also needed by Cubase.
However my LatencyMon never looked as clean as yours. But then again, I’m also running a rather old Intel i7 CPU.
In any case, just in case it helps:
If I recall it correctly I had to set Nvidia 3D Power Management Mode to “Prefer Maximum Performance” (from Adaptive").
And I also removed all of the extra GeForce Experince stuff and stuck with just the pure Nvidia video drivers. (Side note: Fully cleaning out Nvidia installations needed a special little utility provided by Nvidia - at least back when I did that).
Nico5 - top tip here for nvidia cards (was gonna go through my list on this thread!) - switch the driver to MSI mode. It’s a really simple registry tweak - or you can download something to do it for you.
All those nvidia driver spikes will go away (actually they will move somewhere else but do it anyway!)