Quad core i7 Mac Mini with 16 GB RAM and SSD running OS X 10.10.1.
New full installation of C7.5, then C8 update with the Application Installer Tool for Yosemite.
Very stable, and definitely more efficient with Multi-processor support and Asio Guard 2 set to “Hi”.
One thought. I suspect, given the Aero Theme requirement, that the video card (or IGP) and drivers will explain much of the difference in experience, at least on Windows.
So if your graphics card is not in your sig, can you please provide that? Got a strong hunch there will be some commonality in the video hardware department for systems that do or don’t work well. Keep in mind that I expect very few Win users had Aero activated before it being required for C8
Running fine here, except some older templates (and projects) from 7.5 that are not running so well. After rebuilding my biggest template from zero everything changed for better. This specific template now runs much better than before (Cubase 6.5/7/7.5).
Specs in signature (installed only on first system). Video card:Nvidia GeForce GT 650M. Driver version:347.09 (23/12/2014)
P.S. I did a clean installation of Cubase 8 Pro (no 7.5 update). Right now there is only Cubase 6.5.5 and 8 Pro here.
V.5 since I had any trouble and that turned out to be CPU power-saving (dealt with in BIOS, then Steinberg Audio Power). On V.8.0.0 I had intermittent spikes in Disk Cache Load indicator on transport but I’ve not seen them for a while, esp since 8.0.5.
Don’t know how heavy a load I run but usually got a fair few compressors and amps running, sometimes VariAudio too (and on more than one track).
SOFTWARE
Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit
Cubase 8.0.5 64-bit
Device Setup: Steinberg Audio Power Scheme ON
Device Setup: Multiprocessing ON
HARDWARE
Focusrite Saffire LE (FW400) v.1.6
Dell XPS 8100 Desktop
CPU: Intel i7 860 @ 2.80 GHz (HT OFF, C-State OFF, SpeedStep ON, TurboBoost OFF - most important)
Working very good and fast here too but only after I made up a new template in C8 with all Plugins, Vsti’s and so on. When I loaded my C7.5 and older projects, it really took a long time to load and save.
No tweaks except my NIC is switched off in BIOS.
My Sysconfig is in the footnote.
No big problems here with v8 (haven’t test 8.0.5 yet). The 2 things I’ve noticed is the mixer not opening on the second screen, and the pre-roll value doesn’t recall correctly when I open a project created with v7 or v7.5.
Hackintosh OSX 10.8.5
Intel i7 Quad-core (can remember the code, it’s the model before the introduction of the thunderbolt chipset, 4 years old)
12 GB Ram G-Skill
Video Card AMD Sapphire Radeon HD 6850
SSD for boot drive and an other for samples.
RME UFX via firewire, latest firmware/drivers.
I haven’t format and reinstall everything since I installed Mountain Lion, which is maybe 2 years ago.
C8P is working great here except for the sluggish Control Room Meters. (this happens after leaving the system on for more than 16hrs - idle or doing something else)
Spec in sig below with the addition
Motherboard - Gigabyte GA-Z77 D3H (drivers as per Gigabyte Website except audio and video drivers)
Ram - Kingstons
HDD - Seagate 500GB, 1+1TB (Raid), 2T [SATA]
Win7 x64 SP1 - updates disabled since install, offline
HD6970 - AMD 12-8 (all including Hydravision except HDMI Audio driver)
UR44 - driver 1.0 from boxed CD
Apart from some completely irritating bugs (Fxpansion products half-working, and random RIP crashes), C8 is performing pretty well for me; noticably better (by which I mean smoother, faster, less of a asio/cpu load) than 7.5.
I’ve touched nothing in the BIOS - just adjusted the power scheme so that nothing can “turn off”, including all USB hubs. No Onboard sound, as well as the HD audio drivers that come with the video card, are turned off. No Win sounds. I also don’t have Quicktime installed, as I don’t use iTunes (QTime/iTunes can negatively affect Win systems for DAW’s - this is often overlooked). Although I have USB3 - and the interface says it’s USB 3 ready - I only use USB 2 ports. That’s it - I really hate fussing over computers.
System details in my sig. No modifications except the usual ones recommended on the Steinberg knowledgebase.
C8 works fine on both systems, and puts significantly less load on them than C7 did.