Traktor 2.6 Hogging CPU!

[oneapemob]

On my 15'' 2006 1,83 core duo mbp w/ 2gb ram and osx 10.6.8 (yes i know, old...) i had glitches and pop and stuff at 41000 and 128 buffer. Then i rolled back the audio8 drivers, unchecked multicore. It was better, but still pop and crackles. So i went in and "disconnected" the audio inputs for deck 3 and 4, for the fx send, for the aux in, and put deck 3 and 4 in internal in the timecode options, rechecked the multicore option, and now it's fine, 2 decks and 4 fx bank, even with the new macro fx.

I think that it was that traktor was waiting for some timecode input on decks 3 and 4, and so was using more cpu....maybe.

[liljustin]

any updates on this? I am running over 100% cpu on idle 10.7.5 with 2.6 I dont know what to do, as soon as I open maschine it causes so much lag.

[GeekGod]

Ticked opened with NI. If anyone else is having these issues you should give them a call - they claim nobody has reported any CPU issues whatsoever.

[Rudi-J]

I am struggeling with this in the same way (at least i think so) on a Win 7 64bit with VCI-400SE (and with or without maschine, F1, BCR connected). The problem emerged unnoticed as i worked hard to complety my TSI in ther recent weeks. Have you guys encoders on your controllers that allow to adjust the loop length? To my expereience just rapidly twisting these encoders alone (even with no tracks loaded) lets the CPU load easily enter the red zone. Setting the ASIO sample rate to 4096 (!) avoids this issue but has of course unacceptabel other downsides...
First I thought it's caused by the VCI-400SE (new firmware and stuff), then i thought it was Win 7, some graphic card driver, some usbdriver bug issues etc. (analyzed my system with latency software, deinstalled/deactivated literally all unused stuff not mandatory for running traktor using latest dricers etc. etc. etc.) then i thought (referring to postings also listed elsewhere in the forums) on a MAC this is all no problem, but now I just learned otherwise, am totally confused, but more and more my "feelings" are also that the TP 2.6 update is the real cause for this mess nomatter if MAC or PC. I am really uncertain how to progress:

Going back to Wing XP 32?, Going back to TP 2.? (N.B. i read elsewhere that Win 8 is even more a mess when it comes to DCP latency...)

After many years of using Windows I would even be ready to switch to a MAC just if somebody would guarantee this would fix that dammed issue.

Will defenitely call NI now to get their advise...

[GeekGod]

What's really funny is NI wants me to prove this with a video. They do not believe their own customers. Apparently the developers in 'berlin' are really hard to get along with from the bits and pieces that I can gather from USA support and require 'proof' of issues. Silly.

Sucks we are caught in the middle but I cannot be bothered to 'prove' there is an issue with their software.

[Rudi-J]

Gonna approach them in German
maybe they feel it's more of an issue if they figure out there is a guy out there in the mood to kill somebody but within striking distance ...

[GeekGod]

Gonna approach them in German
maybe they feel it's more of an issue if they figure out there is a guy out there in the mood to kill somebody but within striking distance ...

Hah! Good luck!

[Rudi-J]

OK - in the meantime I calmed down and decided to go "the official way" first by issuing a ticket describing the issue.
I asked them to come back to me on the phone - let's see what happens next...

[Paka Ono]

I had a similar issue but my problem was the system and not Traktor.

This fixed my CPU spikes while idle and thus Traktor - http://www.rdoxenham.com/?p=259

[GeekGod]

Glad you where able to resolve your issues. I have a Core i7 Mac Book Pro that I completely formatted and reinstalled from the ground up. Out of the box the latency on Traktor is close to 50% with a FRESH INSTALL. Something is not right here.

EDIT: for kicks I performed the steps in the above article and it made the latency 500* worse.