Randomly, yesterday, my computer decided that it wanted to stop functioning correctly.
In FL Studio, the sound will just cut out, and the CPU meter will shoot up to 100% for about 60 seconds before dropping back down. Even if I pause/stop the audio, the meter stays right where it is.
So I thought, hmm. Maybe it’s a hardware/soundcard problem. Nope. I disconnected all usb devices and used the standard drivers that I’ve used for years. Same problem.
Checked my latency. Set it super-high. Still same problem.
The only other thing I can possibly think of is that my laptop is about to kick the bucket. Any thoughts?
(Oh yeah, I also went through and turned off all potential CPU-draining programs and processes).
Id check the BIOS and see what the temperature readouts are, there could be a bad contact between the CPU and copper heatsink and whenever it goes into a workload, the heat ratings spike and cause lag out until it cools off (which could explain why it takes 60 secs to work again).
Perform a low level hardware stress test with Eurosoft Syscheck. Let it run for one cycle (approx 4 hours or so pending on RAM amount, CPU, HD size, etc).
The only plugins that I’m using are the same ones that I’ve been using for at least a few months.
It isn’t just the kind of audio drop-out that demos software demos cause. It’s kinda like if you tried to run FL on a Windows 95 computer 15 years ago… Audio latency hell.
Good call. I backed up all my music projects for now. Everything else can be replaced.
Hmm… that’s a good idea. I did a quick search on google though and I can’t find that software anywhere…
