Max CPU spikes

[marc_boule (Marc Boulé)]

This might be something relevant to this discussion, if using Windows:

Performance mode settings for Windows users (Rack/DAW)

With this somewhat blogish post, I just wanted to put the spotlight on a known tweak that can be easily forgotten when using Rack/DAWs in Windows. If you’re getting audio hickups and sporatic CPU metrics in Rack that look like this (occasional large differences between AVG and MAX) [image] it’s likely not an indication that some modules (or Rack itself) are misbehaving, it’s more likely an indication that your CPU’s dynamic frequency throttling is not dealing well with the sporatic nature of …