Dropouts in 2016.09

have you updated your system since the previous time you used Sonar? graphic card driver for example could make a huge difference in terms of more/less dropouts ... how is the disk doing? has it become a lot fuller?
 
system specs and recent changes to system would help to give more detail hints on what to check.
 
load balancing is not the one and only solution to etter performance ... it only help in certain situations (see documentation)

No, I haven't changed anything in the meantime. I think however Windows 10 has made an update since. But I haven't changed anything in the driver or USB settings either now or before.
 
I use a Behringer ASIO interface that has worked without trouble. I'll however try to reinstall the driver, just in case.
 
CPU is an I7 4(8)-core which rarely have caused any dropouts before. All installed on SSD.
 
Very strange behaviour, even stranger that it can be "fixed" as I wrote above.
 
/Mats
 

I now rolled back to 2016.08 and the dropouts are gone. Something happened in 2016.09 that made the performance worse for me.
 
I still get even better performance when especially Falcon is visible. I guess it always has been that way and it's a "feature/bug" of that plugin that I haven't noticed before. Sorry if that confused anyone.
 
Thanks all, now I know it's not something here that is broken.
 

No, nothings changed in the driver settings. It's the same as before I rolled back. I don't think updates from Cakewalk change in the driver settings, at least not what I've seen so far.
 
 

I don't know if there would be any connection between Windows and Sonar from this, but literally yesterday I was answering someone's question about Power Management Advanced Options in Windows, and I wanted to accurately supply the name of the parameter I was referring to, so I went into MY system to grab the correct name for it - and discovered that Windows had RESET the Power Plan from High Performance back to Balanced, - which ROYALLY aggravated me.
 
If I get some time later today, I will go back into my settings to see if any others were changed/reset by Windows Update.
 
All I am suggesting is that you might want to review your settings to make sure some stellar decision by a Microsoft engineer hasn't changed something that could affect the current Sonar and not a prior version.
 
I believe the above is not particularly likely, but if you are in there looking for potential issues, it might be worth just keeping this in the back of your head as you look, just in case.
 
Bob Bone
 

robert_e_bone
I don't know if there would be any connection between Windows and Sonar from this, but literally yesterday I was answering someone's question about Power Management Advanced Options in Windows, and I wanted to accurately supply the name of the parameter I was referring to, so I went into MY system to grab the correct name for it - and discovered that Windows had RESET the Power Plan from High Performance back to Balanced, - which ROYALLY aggravated me.
 
If I get some time later today, I will go back into my settings to see if any others were changed/reset by Windows Update.
 
All I am suggesting is that you might want to review your settings to make sure some stellar decision by a Microsoft engineer hasn't changed something that could affect the current Sonar and not a prior version.
 
I believe the above is not particularly likely, but if you are in there looking for potential issues, it might be worth just keeping this in the back of your head as you look, just in case.
 
Bob Bone
 

This is something I need to check.  After the last windows 10 update my laptop started choking with the wasapi driver but work ok with my asio device.  Before the update both were working file.  I had set the power plan before the update. Hymmm?

As annoying as the last major Windows 10 "forced" update was, I don't think it has anything to do with this. This thread encouraged me to install the latest again and I got the same result as dappa1. The performance is up to normal again. Could all this happened because of a bad update in the first place?
 
From now on I'll switch between versions when this happens now I know it's so easy to do.
 

Yes I found the Windows Updater by asking "Cortina" At least she knows where stuff is ;)
But there's not much point opening it other than to run a manual update.
I might give your little utility a try for my Office W10 computer.
I know it updated because I lost most of my Taskbar icons and like everyone said , I had to re set the power plan. 
My DAW is immune because it's always off line.
I only plug the LAN cable in when I know there's a Sonar update,, I rarely use the internet with that machine.   
Sometimes for looking up lyrics.