Huge spike in first core in the CPU meter

I think I've seen this mentioned before, but my CPU meter in SPlat is showing huge spikes since the last update. I'm only using one instance of Kontakt 5 with two instruments loaded in it. That's it. Nothing else. The first bar (cpu core) is going almost to the top and it's causing crackling and pops. This is not normal behavior. I've had projects with two dozen instruments and even more plugins running at the same time and never heard a single pop. This is a newly introduced problem that started happening after I updated. I even put my ASIO buffer size to 1024 and it didn't help. 

I've already checked in preferences and "use multiprocessing engine" is checked. I can't seem to find the other posts about this issue, and I'm hoping someone was able to figure out what the issue was. 

Roll back to Kingston. Hopefully Manchester will address these issues.
 
Regards,
Dan