Topic: CPU & CPU usage meter: Pretty weird. (Solved)

@LiquidProj3ct wrote:

I forgot say that when the meter reach 100% the output is muted (but windows task manager hardly reaches 50% 😯 ) and, although you press STOP the meter doesn’t descend

Best regards

EDIT: This has been tested with Gladiator2 and Sylenth1. It seems that Podium doubles the normal CPU usage.

I just started using Podium and I was going to post a thread about this but I’ll just tag onto yours. I noticed that Podium is using about twice the cpu as my other DAW’s. I did a similarity test whereas I had the same synth, drum synth, and audio track with the same effects applied. The other two apps were both reading 10% cpu load and Podium was reading 20% cpu load. I was going to ask if there are some options that can be turned off in or out of Podium that might be causing the higher cpu load. I really like Podium and want to make it my main DAW but my computer sure isn’t the fastest of them all. Still, I would think that the cpu load should be closer to the other two DAW’s.

Hi guys…

@LiquidProj3ct

There was an interesting discussion about CPU usage in Podium here. (CPU spikes) It might help.

Why Podium is using less CPU with Mulitprocessing disabled??? Don’t know. Maybe some of your plugins respond better or are coded for single processor usage?

I guess Frits would know what is wrong here or at least know how to troubleshoot it.

@bfloyd6969 wrote:

I just started using Podium and I was going to post a thread about this but I’ll just tag onto yours. I noticed that Podium is using about twice the cpu as my other DAW’s.

Have a look at this thread (Dual-core Multiprocessing question). Might shed some light on Podiums CPU usage

@LiquidProj3ct wrote:

Thx Conquistador I’m gonna read it.

However I can play 7 Gladiator tracks (4 voices chords each) until CPU overload (and I get audio glitches) in Reaper, 6 Gladiator tracks in Orion, and 3 in Podium.

Similar results with Sylenth1.

Strange results. Not sure why that is happenining.

Frits?

@DFusion wrote:

This is because the max is 50% on each core so when you disable multicore it shows about half of what it does with it enabled

So when multicore is enabled it counts the cpu cycles from 0 to 100% and with it is disabled it counts from 0 to 50%

How strange is that? Sounds backward.

Not saying you do not know what you are talking about DFusion 🙂 but I am just trying to wrap my head around this.

Are you saying Windows counts from 0 to 100% for multiple processors and 0-50% for a single processor? ❓

I would have thought it should be 0-100% for single or Multiprocessor sytems.

Or do you mean Podium?

@Conquistador wrote:

Hi guys…

@LiquidProj3ct

There was an interesting discussion about CPU usage in Podium here. (CPU spikes) It might help.

Why Podium is using less CPU with Mulitprocessing disabled??? Don’t know. Maybe some of your plugins respond better or are coded for single processor usage?

I guess Frits would know what is wrong here or at least know how to troubleshoot it.

@bfloyd6969 wrote:

I just started using Podium and I was going to post a thread about this but I’ll just tag onto yours. I noticed that Podium is using about twice the cpu as my other DAW’s.

Have a look at this thread (Dual-core Multiprocessing question). Might shed some light on Podiums CPU usage

Thanks for the link. I’m using a single core (yeah, yeah, I know). Anyone else using a single core with Podium and still getting fair results? Maybe it’s time to upgrade to a multi core?

Thanks M8 😀
I have to agree that the problem you have is weird since Podium is the most cpu friendly host on my system.

Could you please post screenshots with the taskmanager set at Rendimiento instead of Procesos so we can see the load graph instead of numbers.