N14 performance is worse than N13

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Working on a music project at the moment. N14 performance randomly starts spiking when changing plugins. Once it spikes it starts getting worse. Restarting the project works until I start changing plugins. The audio engine seems jittery here.

The exact same project runs perfectly in N13. No performance spiking when changing the same plugins. Runs constantly at around 35%.

N13 running a buffer of 128 on my RME UFX+, as I have for the last long while, even on 200 + track counts. No problems.

Intel i9-14900F / 96 gigs of RAM

PS - I really love this update, but for now I’ll revert to N13 until there’s an update.

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i experienced some similar things, but only when i open a N13 project in N14 - if i start in N!4, it seems very fine… was your project created with N13?

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Yes, it was. That’s an interesting discovery. I’ll take a look over the next few days.

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Yes problem exist.
My machine is quite powerful:
Windows 10 Pro, Ryzen 9950x3D, 64GB, RTX 4900, RME UFXIII

My projects with N13 play well at 30% CPU usage during playback
or recording.
The same project on the N14 uses 40% of the CPU during playback and

LOW FPS during recording is visible. Additionally, there are many drop-outs during recording.

Cannot work on N14. I am considering refund. This is not what I was expecting.

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indeed it’s bad than N13 .. it cannot even import dorico file properly :frowning:

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There is no fix. No hope.

I have 2 fps during recording and notorious drop-uts.

I switched back to Nuendo 13.

I asked for refund.

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I have to admit I tried loading a large project from N13 to N14 and there was a big hit in performance as well. I was hoping this was an account of not starting the project in N14 from scratch. Also powerful computer on my end as well. I will know more as I start to do that more etc. So far running them from scratch seem fine, but mostly short form stuff so far on my end.

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Hi all,
thank you for the feedback! The next maintenance update is in the making and
will be released in the next 2 weeks and will contain performance related fixes.

Thanks,
Timo

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