musicroom
I don't really know Zo what's under the software hood. But what I do know is X3 with touchscreen capability (which I don't use) has been almost unusable in console view with my current setup. If I disable all metering in console view, that frees up enough resources to appear to run smoothly. But then no meters. Not good.
As mentioned above, I took the advice and ordered a new video card yesterday. That should cure the symptoms here. I have no problem doing some upgrades to keep up with technology. Trying to figure out when and what to upgrade has been a challenge until this thread. FTR: both X1 and X2's console view ran smoothly on this daw.
I have a passive gpu (tha ati 5450 ) and it's smooth on X1 ...i skipped X2 and when i tried X3 i noticed a lot of thing that slows the process like crazy (like doubling the instertion time of Track multimbral templates and some )
To test , be sure to have zero plugin inserted also (i noticed that last slate and waves are using a graphical engine that when a lot of gui are displayed , will slow all the graphic including sonar's one)
i tried on my laptop (HP 8560w quadro FX 1000 M) with several certified profil , same thing ...HW accelearation or not ...
I don't like that so i stayed on X1 despite all the thing i want from X3
(i don't even talk about the mess i had with plugins after the new scan thing process)