Cubase 8 CPU problem

Cubase
#1

Hello everybody.
So I got a serious problem with Cubase 8. I just start a new project and add some few vst plug in insert and FX. Anyway even it’s at the beginning of the project the CPU in VST performance is at 50% of his capacity!!! Also I don’t think it’s coming from computer because it’s a quadcore with 16gig ram! Yes it’s strange. I never had that with 7.5. Somehow I read in forum that I add to get down buffer size, so buffer is sound card latency. Right? I just change from 20ms till 100ms but nothing change. So I am a bit fed up trying to fix this problem. If anybody could help it would be wonderful.

Thanks in advance for your help

Karash

#2

Amen to that, brother!

I’ve noticed similar things with C8 that were NEVER the case with C7.5. Yesterday, I was playing a .wav file in a brand new project window - one track, with no processing of any kind - and it was too much of an overload for C8 to play.

Just like you, my system is an Intel i7 8-core processor with 32GB RAM. There is no reason for this to be happening.

Could the recent maintenance updates to C7.5 be foreshadowing to us all? I sure hope not. I have had a lot of respect for Steinberg since 1999, and I just need to know if I need to change that now.

#3

Interestingly I have the same spec computer as yours - a new build. Fresh install of C8 up to 8.0.10.
No CPU spikes at all and am running largish projects at 64 samples without any issues.
As you can see below I am using an RME Fireface UC and am not suffering from the RME spiking that some users report.
There must be something that I am not using that you are?

Could it be the NVidia graphics card? Other users have reported issues? Are you using the latest driver?

I am running AMD RadeonHD 7700 in windows 8.1.

#4

find the audio , bring into another program, convert to .flac import into new cubase and no problems

i am having this issue, effect multitrack playback… .wav only in v7 and v8