Random Real Time Peak Overload

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I have issues with real time peak overload, appearing randomly, though my cpu is bored with at maximum 50% load.

I’m working with around 50 stems at 96kHz, 32bit float with around 100 plugins, mostly uad, softube, nugen, sonarworks, hedd, izotope.
Buffer is set to the highest as I’m only mixing.

I tried several things already like disabling hyper-threading and c-stats.
Tried a lot of different other workarounds I found here and elsewhere in the net, but nothing seems to solve that issue.
I reinstalled all plugins and also reinstalled Cubase.

I tested all setting in asio guard, sometimes it worked to bring down the real time peaks, sometimes not, sometimes
it helped to restart the whole system, sometimes not - random behaviour.

I can not find the problematic piece.

Anyone pointing me to a solution would make my life a lot easier, thank you.

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Well, I would say that 100 plugins on 96KHz audio is quite a bit. Specially if some of the plugins you use are heavy.
Disabling C-state doesn’t make much, if any, difference on CPU from Skylake era and newer as the latency is less than 1ms, at least if you are running Windows 10.

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that’s for sure, it’s a lot, but it’s strange that it is working fine for a few hours with realtime peaking around 60%, and sudden it freaks out

4

You likely have something else running on your system that creates this issue. Just noticed you are running OSX, I have no clue about that.

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thanks anyway, I wrote to steinberg, hope they get back with some ideas