CPU Overload Indicator During Countoff

[Rick Cornish]

Anyone get a CPU overload indication from DP8 during count off?

This is the only time I get this and I've been just working in a test sequence with only a few VIs active.

Do I have some setup wrong?

[MIDI Life Crisis]

I've seen it and I am guessing, but maybe when it gets accessed after hitting play, it experiences the equivalent of a little surge. If it doesn't hinder performance it's probably fine to just ignore it.

[Rick Cornish]

From MOTU…

I explained it was the Playback meter that was overloading…
"…this is normal as much of the playback material is being loaded into the RAM during the count-off. "

I get it. Though it seems like the pre-load of an 8-bar, four track sequence for 4 VIs shouldn't tax my 3.06 Core 2 Duo with 4gB RAM to that extent.

[MIDI Life Crisis]

Other than the cosmetic aspect of "seeing red" is there any practical problem it is presenting in terms of performance or playback?

[Rick Cornish]

Other than the cosmetic aspect of "seeing red" is there any practical problem it is presenting in terms of performance or playback?

In a word, no.

Here's a further response from MOTU…

"you can also try setting your VI's to real-time mode. Go to Preferences>General>Audio Plug-ins and set the Real-Tim Preference for the Current Project to "Virtual Instruments in Real-Time.""

…which didn't make any difference for me, but it might for someone else.

[MIDI Life Crisis]

Well, as much as it might be scary, if it has no impact just try to treat it as eye candy and a confirmation indicator that you actually hit play or record or whatever... The same thing goes for the CPU overload that can stop DP in it's tracks if you don't disable it. Once disabled it has no impact, but if not disabled, playback or record will stop. Makes no sense.

[Frodo]

Well, as much as it might be scary, if it has no impact just try to treat it as eye candy....

In my case, the impact is that I'm also getting massive MIDI note dropouts on playback regardless of buffer size. The CPU Overload warning came as a disappointing shock since everything now runs on a brand new 12-Core machine. How does a tiny project overload 12 cores as easily as it did on a G5 Quad?

The overload warning suddenly raises more concerns that can't be overlooked as easily as they once were. It pains me to admit, but not all cores were in use when the CPU overload window appeared.

I'm traveling at the moment, so troubleshooting will have to wait until a couple of weeks to see if certain VIs are causing the problem (and not DP). The only other consideration would be that my new machine is a lemon.

Ouch.

I must also admit that 8.01 worked extremely well for me, and it seems that we Mac users might want to take care with downloads as updates are released now that some of the updates might be more closely related to Windows issues.

[MIDI Life Crisis]

Wow! Sorry to hear that, Frodo. That has to be frustrating. I haven't seen that particular issue - yet. You should still be under warranty The only dropped notes I've seen are on more heavily scripted VIs and even then, only in bounces. Realtime recording usually works out OK.

Travel safe. Happy gigs!