What are the best NVIDIA Control Panel settings for the spectralayers app?
Just leave it as is, or tweak certain settings to something else than defaults?
I recently upgraded my “old” daw with a newer GPU, but honestly I’m not impressed by the outcome in terms of spectralayers performance. I still see a lot of CPU load, yes the GPU does take a load, but it is not maxing out mem and not much else seem to do much..
I have the same card and it will run “Unmix Song” on a 4m piece in about 4m, so roughly realtime, and it will show quite a bit of activity on both GPU and CPU. Bear in mind that not all of the AI models used for separation will run on the GPU, so the amount of activity will vary during the process and of course it will also depend on the nature of the source material (and more specifically, on how close your source material resembles the material used to train each model, something we as users do not know).
That said, there is definitely something in your setup that is resulting in the GPU apparently not being used at all.
To get back to your original question, I don’t have any non-default settings in the “NVIDIA Control Panel”, in fact I always just do a clean installation of the Studio driver. If you go to “Help | System information” and click “Save”, it will generate a text file for you with all the relevant information which you can upload here for comparison, however I suggest you remove the system name and Device ID as I have done below:
NVIDIA System Information report created on: 03/16/2026 09:38:36
System name:
[Display]
DirectX version: 12.0
GPU processor: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti
Driver version: 591.74
Driver Type: DCH
Direct3D feature level: 12_1
CUDA Cores: 4608
Resizable BAR Yes
Core clock: 2617 MHz
Memory data rate: 28.00 Gbps
Memory interface: 128-bit
Memory bandwidth: 448.03 GB/s
Total available graphics memory: 48880 MB
Dedicated video memory: 16311 MB GDDR7
System video memory: 0 MB
Shared system memory: 32569 MB
Video BIOS version: 98.06.1F.00.D4
IRQ: Not used
Bus: PCI Express x8
Device ID:
Part Number: G152 0010
[Components]
nvui.dll 8.17.15.9174 NVIDIA User Experience Driver Component
nvxdplcy.dll 8.17.15.9174 NVIDIA User Experience Driver Component
nvxdbat.dll 8.17.15.9174 NVIDIA User Experience Driver Component
nvxdapix.dll 8.17.15.9174 NVIDIA User Experience Driver Component
NVCPL.DLL 8.17.15.9174 NVIDIA User Experience Driver Component
nvCplUIR.dll 8.1.940.0 NVIDIA Control Panel
nvCplUI.exe 8.1.940.0 NVIDIA Control Panel
nvWSSR.dll 32.0.15.9174 NVIDIA Workstation Server
nvWSS.dll 32.0.15.9174 NVIDIA Workstation Server
nvViTvSR.dll 32.0.15.9174 NVIDIA Video Server
nvViTvS.dll 32.0.15.9174 NVIDIA Video Server
nvLicensingS.dll 6.14.15.9174 NVIDIA Licensing Server
nvDevToolSR.dll 32.0.15.9174 NVIDIA Licensing Server
nvDevToolS.dll 32.0.15.9174 NVIDIA 3D Settings Server
nvDispSR.dll 32.0.15.9174 NVIDIA Display Server
nvDispS.dll 32.0.15.9174 NVIDIA Display Server
NVCUDA64.DLL 32.0.15.9174 NVIDIA CUDA 13.1.117 driver
nvGameSR.dll 32.0.15.9174 NVIDIA 3D Settings Server
nvGameS.dll 32.0.15.9174 NVIDIA 3D Settings Server
NVIDIA System Information report created on: 03/17/2026 01:26:24
System name:
[Display]
DirectX version: 12.0
GPU processor: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti
Driver version: 595.79
Driver Type: DCH
Direct3D feature level: 12_1
CUDA Cores: 4608
Resizable BAR No
Core clock: 2602 MHz
Memory data rate: 28.00 Gbps
Memory interface: 128-bit
Memory bandwidth: 448.03 GB/s
Total available graphics memory: 49034 MB
Dedicated video memory: 16311 MB GDDR7
System video memory: 0 MB
Shared system memory: 32723 MB
Video BIOS version: 98.06.39.40.B2
IRQ: Not used
Bus: PCI Express x8 Gen3
Device Id:
Part Number: G152 0010
[Components]
nvui.dll 8.17.15.9579 NVIDIA User Experience Driver Component
nvxdplcy.dll 8.17.15.9579 NVIDIA User Experience Driver Component
nvxdbat.dll 8.17.15.9579 NVIDIA User Experience Driver Component
nvxdapix.dll 8.17.15.9579 NVIDIA User Experience Driver Component
NVCPL.DLL 8.17.15.9579 NVIDIA User Experience Driver Component
nvCplUIR.dll 8.1.940.0 NVIDIA Control Panel
nvCplUI.exe 8.1.940.0 NVIDIA Control Panel
nvWSSR.dll 32.0.15.9579 NVIDIA Workstation Server
nvWSS.dll 32.0.15.9579 NVIDIA Workstation Server
nvViTvSR.dll 32.0.15.9579 NVIDIA Video Server
nvViTvS.dll 32.0.15.9579 NVIDIA Video Server
nvLicensingS.dll 6.14.15.9579 NVIDIA Licensing Server
nvDevToolSR.dll 32.0.15.9579 NVIDIA Licensing Server
nvDevToolS.dll 32.0.15.9579 NVIDIA 3D Settings Server
nvDispSR.dll 32.0.15.9579 NVIDIA Display Server
nvDispS.dll 32.0.15.9579 NVIDIA Display Server
PhysX 09.23.1019 NVIDIA PhysX
NVCUDA64.DLL 32.0.15.9579 NVIDIA CUDA 13.2.51 driver
nvGameSR.dll 32.0.15.9579 NVIDIA 3D Settings Server
nvGameS.dll 32.0.15.9579 NVIDIA 3D Settings Server
I tried enabling “Shared Mem” in the SL prefs, and that actually loaded ALL gpu mem fully - initially it looked good with a better time estimate, but then SL crashed
About the app specific settings in the NIVIDA panel - I’m also running with defaults, but there are a lot things to tweak, which is why I am curious. I do miss some more options in the SL prefs for GPU/CPU settings.
Apart from the slight difference in driver version (I didn’t install the latest one because I saw nothing relevant to audio usage in the release notes), one thing I notice is:
The fact that enabling “Shared Memory” in SL resulted in more GPU RAM being used (good) but then crashed (very bad) might suggest some issue with data transfers between system RAM and GPU RAM. Since SL12, a full “Unmix Song” seems to require 18-20GB, so it seems to be trying to do that, but there is still almost no activity on “GPU - 3D”.
For comparison, here’s screenshot from my system from about half-way through “Unmix Song”, with “Shared Memory” enabled:
The disabled Resizable BAR is a very good candidate for the differences we see.
Enabling it on my old Asus X99-A II board has turned out to be nearly impossible. ASUS have not made any official BIOS updates that enables resizable bar. Yes, there are unofficial patches and methods, and I’ve tried them (e.g. this one [Report] ASUS X99 Deluxe II Resizable Bar Mod and updates - #16 by gonzo - Reports: BIOS Modding Results - Win-Raid Forum ).. but I keep ending up in the same dead end where I can’t set the rebarstate. I even tried booting directly into a simple UEFI grub console and set the rebarstate variable directly, which goes through, but in effect doesn’t change anything. Mighty frustrating!
I guess my best hope with this HW is that the developers fix the shared mem bug and whatever the issue is that causes the GPU not to be used as it should.
Mmmm … resizable BAR should at best affect only performance though, and it’s absence should not prevent using the GPU compute, and certainly should not trigger a crash.
I have since updated the driver, the updated system information is below, for reference:
NVIDIA System Information report created on: 03/22/2026 19:15:30
[Display]
DirectX version: 12.0
GPU processor: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti
Driver version: 595.79
Driver Type: DCH
Direct3D feature level: 12_1
CUDA Cores: 4608
Resizable BAR Yes
Core clock: 2617 MHz
Memory data rate: 28.00 Gbps
Memory interface: 128-bit
Memory bandwidth: 448.03 GB/s
Total available graphics memory: 48880 MB
Dedicated video memory: 16311 MB GDDR7
System video memory: 0 MB
Shared system memory: 32569 MB
Video BIOS version: 98.06.1F.00.D4
IRQ: Not used
Bus: PCI Express x8
Device ID:
Part Number: G152 0010
One other test that might be worth trying is to run the Unmix Song modules individually, to see if perhaps only one of them causes the crash. Not all modules use GPU. That might not necessarily tell us anything useful, but at least it could make it more usable for you as a temporary workaround.
Just a final thought: have you tested your system memory? I mean thoroughly, for example, using memtest86+ ?
