A simple two-track audio recording that runs seamlessly in X2 with lots of Pro Channel toys stutters horribly in X3b when running flat.  Does X3 intrinsically make greater demands on a system?  Doing what?  Admittedly I am running a marginal old system - AMD Athlon II 64 2.8 GHz under Win 7 with 10GB Ram - but, I can A-B between the 2 programmes, X2 is smooth, X3 unusable.  What have I missed?  Optimisation suggestions would be much appreciated!

Should be no difference at all.
 
Check that your drivers in X3 are up to date and check their individual settings between your X2 & X3 installs

I have an old PC (phenom2 X4) and do not have any problems...Sounds like a driver setting  issue in X3. Make it the same in X2 and X3..

Q9300 w/ GB RAM here, and X3 is as good as if not slightly better than X2 overall.   You may want to try renaming your aud.ini file and let SONAR create a new one.

Thanks for all your assistance, guys.  Luckily I had my SWA Complete Sonar X2 Overview to hand to help with the wrinkles of this process!

stevec
Q9300 w/ GB RAM here, and X3 is as good as if not slightly better than X2 overall.   You may want to try renaming your aud.ini file and let SONAR create a new one.

This caught my attention! What's the rationale for doing this? I too have noticed a slightly higher load on CPU usage since I moved to X3. Where is the audi.ini file? Why does this help with CPU usage?  Just trying to understand..

dlesaux

stevec
Q9300 w/ GB RAM here, and X3 is as good as if not slightly better than X2 overall.   You may want to try renaming your aud.ini file and let SONAR create a new one.

This caught my attention! What's the rationale for doing this? I too have noticed a slightly higher load on CPU usage since I moved to X3. Where is the audi.ini file? Why does this help with CPU usage?  Just trying to understand..

it resets all driver settings.
copy the file to make a back up
(always good t make a back up incase you don't like the changes and want to get back to what you had)
 
then restart sonar and x3 will rebuild a new aud ini file

Yep...The aud.ini file is the file which stores all the audio configuration infos.
it's located in
C:\Users\XXXXXXXXX\AppData\Roaming\Cakewalk\SONAR X3 Producer
 
You can access it in sonar using advanced mode in preferences,audio section (4th subsection)
When you install X3 over a previous install, it will import previous config files. It may be good to delete(rename to keep backup) it to have X3 rebuild it and be "Full X3"

^^^^^^^^
 

I'll have to give this a try tonight. I was getting the feeling that X3 ran just a little slower than x2.  Kind of like if x3 had eaten a large meal and is feeling just a bit too full and sluggish. I'm getting audio dropouts on a 5 song project that has 5 to 10 automation lanes.