Cubase 12 processing overload

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Hi there, thanks for asking.

I haven’t updated to 13 yet as I am in the middle of a project. Will do it though, as soon as the studio is on a downtime.

I know it’s probably hard to believe, but I never up to this point came across the information to do with the buffer size…Go figure.

For years and years now, I have been working on the power management system settings, advanced settings, audio priority, etc., and NEVER once came across the information that the buffer size plays a huge role in spikes and problems of that nature…

I maxed out the buffer size, and all by a miracle…I had zero problems.

I added a TON of heavy instruments, and C11 worked without a single clitch…incredible…

I hope all this won’t be reversible when I upgrade to 13 :crossed_fingers:

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Hello, I’m digging up this old conversation to talk about how Cubase 12 was a terrible experience for me and to ask if anyone has had similar experiences with 13 before wasting money on an upgrade.

Over the months I have changed PC, now I have an AMD Ryzen 9 7950X CPU with 64GB of DDR5 RAM and despite this upgrade, Cubase 12 remains totally unusable even in projects that use less than 5% CPU due to continuous overloads.

Does anyone who has experienced these problems know if they have been resolved in Cubase 13? I don’t want to upload to have another unusable DAW and I wouldn’t even want to find myself forced to migrate to another DAW after 15 years of using Cubase.
Thanks

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Hi there, what exactly is your version, 13.(?)

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Hi, for all those considering to upgrade to 13, just to fix this: don’t.
Just tried myself and it’s all the same, followed all the different guides to fix this, new drivers for gpu, sound and cpu, all the cubase settings, remove the cores that have high irs from cubase, windows update, registry and so on… still no fix for me, every few seconds i get procesing overload while my pc runs on 4% cpu, so I upgraded to 13 just out of desperation, but it’s all the same :confused:

Edit:
Came from Cubase 12
Windows 11
AMD Ryzen 9 7900X 12-Core
Nvidia GF RTX 3060
64 Gb Ram

everything run smooth for about 8 months, now since a few days I have major issues with audio clips due to processing overload every few seconds. No resets, windows/cuase reinstall etc have fixed this for me