I just installed the 30-day trial of Cubase 11 Pro. I’m considering upgrading from Artist 10.5 and would like to spend time during the trial period working with 11 Pro to check out the new features. The download included a demo project called Venus. When I load that project, I find it to be very glitchy with major stop/start and audio dropout. I’ve set up the audio system with Multi-processing and Asio-guard both activated. Doesn’t make any difference. I haven’t as yet started a project as I’d like to establish why the demo project isn’t working. Here’s the bit which I’m concerned about: Seems like my PC may not be able to run Pro 11. The PC is a Dell Inspiron 1545 laptop running 64-bit Windows 10. It has an Intel Core 2 Duo 3.06GHz processor, 8GB RAM and a 1TB drive with loads of free space. I’ve now looked at Steinberg’s minimum requirements for Pro 11 and see that it recommends a minimum of an i5 processor. I’d be very disappointed to find that the PC is redundant with regard to being able to run the DAW. Have any other members discovered that this minimum spec. is an issue in terms of being able to run Cubase Pro 11? I 'd be grateful to hear from people with experience and any advice.
Hi,
You can find the System Requirements down in the Cubase editions comparison chart article.
I’ve always stayed above the minimum so I can’t answer that directly. The only thing I can think of for you to try is to use a different audio interface to get sound out of your computer. A good interface has good drivers, and good drivers typically allow for either lower latency/smaller buffers, or conversely a weaker CPU/system.
But outside of that I think you might be out of luck. You’re really pushing it using a 2020 DAW with such an old CPU (I’m assuming it’s one from 2009) considering how ‘weak’ it is.
Hi,
Of course, you can download Cubase 11 Trail and try it with your specific system.
The person already did that and had performance issues.
Laptops are not great and a lot seem to have problems and bottlenecks. I would agree an i5 is minimum. I personally wouldn’t go below an i7.
Thanks for the replies, much appreciated. The minimum spec for 11 is stated as being i5, which is obviously more powerful than the Intel Core duo which I currently have. I’ve tried importing a number of other projects created using 10.5. They seem to play back fine with no glitches or audio dropout, however I’m aware that the Pro 11 demo track may contain a whole lot of stuff which is exposing the limitations of the CPU. Either that or the download of the demo is corrupted. I’m going to continue to work with the Pro 11 demo until the end of the 30-day trial period. I’ll gradually build up a project as a means of establishing at around what point the system starts to struggle. Hadn’t anticipated having to buy a new PC to accommodate a new version of Cubase. I don’t do gaming. I’d upgraded the processor in the laptop to its maximum compatibility. The Intel dual core CPU has served my music production needs well up until this discovery. Seems that it is now not enough to accommodate Cubase 11. I think I’ll investigate an upgrade from 10.5 Artist to 10.5 Pro and live with that for a while. Should be cheaper than buying a new PC and if I’m being honest, I haven’t yet completed the learning curve presented by 10.5. Thanks again.
Cubase 11 works poorly on my windows 8.5 pc. A computer that can NOT be upgraded to Windows 10. So in order for me to use Cubase 11,12 , it would mean purchasing a $1400. + new P.C. No Thanks
Why can’t it be upgraded to win 10? I upgraded all mine and my families for free when it came out and some if those were really old.
I upgraded from windows 7 to Windows 10 on three different PC’s within the last year. If your current version of Windows is activated, you’re entitled to a free upgrade, even after a fairly long time since it became available. There are Youtube videos showing how to carry out the upgrade.
With regard to the problems which I was having with Cubase 11 at the start of this topic, I have now upgraded my PC to a Dell XPS 15 9560 i7 laptop with a NVIDIA GTX 1050 Graphics card, 16Gb RAM and a 1TB SSD. No issues with Cubase 11 whatsoever now.
Hi,
I would strongly recommend to go for the clean installation of Windows 10 (or 11). The upgrade installations are quite messed up very often.
Agreed.
Of the three upgrades I did, two were fine as upgrades, the third required a clean installation as it became problematic. I won’t be installing Windows 11 any time soon. After upgrading from 7 to 10, I was unable to use two audio interfaces as there were no Windows 10 drivers available for them.
I’ve not bad any problems with drivers. On my old pc I have a ancient FireWire audio interface that still works on win 10. My old n12 still worked on win 10 (now sold) my zoom L-20 works on win 10 and 11. My RME Babyface pro fs works on both. RME are known for supporting very old hardware on the newest Operating systems.
At some point Cubase will only be supported on win 11. I had a large enough ssd drive to partition it and run dual boot with win 10 and 11. I ran this for a few months. Last week I removed my win 10 partition as I’ve had no problems
I couldn’t use an Edirol UA-5 interface after installing Windows 10. Edirol stopped providing drivers after Windows 8. I had the same problem with a M-Audio firewire interface. Perfectly good equipment rendered redundant. Very frustrating. I would have had the same problem with another Edirol interface (UA-25), however I was fortunate to discover a Youtuber who had figured out a method of installing Windows Vista and 8 drivers in a particular way so that the UA-25 works fine with Windows 10. It sounds like RME is a manufacturer which cares enough about its customers to provide drivers for older equipment. There’s an inevitability about having to have Windows 11 to run Cubase. My new PC will enable me to set up the dual boot facility as you describe. I’ve noted the advice which is much appreciated.
I still have a m-audio FireWire 410 interface working on win 10 on my old pc which my son uses. That pc will not be updated to win 11 though.