Hello everyone,
I'm sneaking into the conversation because I've just bought a pc with AMD processor to use as a slave machine but I'm having some CPU overload problems when using VEP7. First of all, it's a notebook MSI Bravo 15, AMD Ryzen 7 4800H 4.3 GHz, 64 GB DDR4 3200 MHz, 1TB SSD M.2 PCIe.
My VEP7 template has 6 instances. When I load it and connect all the instances to Cubase, the CPU usage is at 40% even if all the tracks are disabled and the project is not playing. Buffer size on Cubase is 2048 and on the VEP plugin is 2 buffers but I'm not noticing a big difference even if I set it to 4 buffers.
I tried to use it on old programming projects with just one instance as well (16 threads assigned to it). When it's not playing the CPU is at 15-20%. When it starts playing, CPU usage jumps to 40-60% for the most of the project and in a couple of parts in which almost all the instruments are playing, it goes to 90-98%, the audio is ruined and some samples keep playing like they are frozen and I need to disconnect the instance. This project has a lot of tracks (about 70/80) with different players on them (Synchron, Kontakt, Play, Sine). But it behave the same way in a couple of fast bars in another project with just 35 Synchron Player tracks.
When I load an instance in an empty project, the CPU usage is already at 11-12%.
I used to have 756 outputs per instance enabled but even if I reduced the number to less than 32 nothing's changed.
I honestly don't know what to think :'D
Or what the problem could be. I know people with less powerful computer than mine that have less CPU usage when using VEP.
Also, when VEP says CPU Usage 60%, in the MSI Dragon Center I read CPU Usage 34%.