Gotcha, will DL and test tomorrow when I'm home for the day!

Hey all, I'm back.
 
Been using LatencyMon to check what's going on after doing some Windows maintenance (just running utilities and making sure everything else like RAM, HD's, and whatnot are running ok).
 
So back in my SONAR project, which only has RapPro and FM8 in it. FM8 again plays well and records well, RapPro does not. LatencyMon has me no higher than 85microsecs (note: not milisecs) and I'm running at 256 in the Focusrite ASIO panel.
 
Actually, a little clarification: FM8 does eventually and intermittently have some latency and noise issues. I'm gonna sit down and roll through a few different VSTs and see what happens.
 
In addition, my wireless mouse gets a little sluggish at times too. Performance overall is just in the toilet. My hunch is some driver or background service is not playing nice. But I wanted to check in to see if anyone had a good recipe for hunting this down.

This product has not been updated yet for Win10, but the advice for tracking down problems still applies!
 
http://www.thesycon.de/eng/latency_check.shtml
 
 

Well here's a random update: after some more utilities running and research it looks like my main audio drive is failing! I'm running chkdsk now on it. Sigh.
 
Fortunately I just backed up last week, which is a good reminder to all of you out there! ;-)

A couple of useful disk utilities you may want to try:
 
Disk Checkup (free for personal use, from the developer of MemTest86) https://www.passmark.com/products/diskcheckup.htm
 
Crystal Disk Info (HDD/SSD utility which supports S.M.A.R.T.) https://crystalmark.info/software/CrystalDiskInfo/manual-en/

Well glad your found the problem, I have a similar issue with Sonar crashing randomly on longer sessions. Mine points to my C drive is going south. It's a 4 year old SSD one of the first gen Samsung EVO's it's only a 120 GB
At least your only facing swapping a data drive,, that's easy :) 
I'm just waiting for a sale on a new SSD 240 Gig. 

Cactus Music
Well glad your found the problem, I have a similar issue with Sonar crashing randomly on longer sessions. Mine points to my C drive is going south. It's a 4 year old SSD one of the first gen Samsung EVO's it's only a 120 GB
At least your only facing swapping a data drive,, that's easy :) 
I'm just waiting for a sale on a new SSD 240 Gig. 

The Samsung EVO 850's were on sale recently.  I have been using one daily for almost 2 years, and it is still at 100%.  Great performer!

What is the best way to check the health of your hard drives? I am getting suspicious of mine, as well.

I just ran the Windows built in one , 
 
https://windowsinstructed.com/run-chkdsk-windows/
 
It repaired some bad sectors and then said all was good and since then I had only one crash. The disk is at 68 % and I can't really ditch anything from it. 
I found one on sale for $128 CAN so I ordered it. 
I'm not looking forware to the Cloning and see what happens deal. I've never messed much with W10. I still have my W 8.2 original disk if all else fails. 
 
 

rodreb
What is the best way to check the health of your hard drives? I am getting suspicious of mine, as well.

This, in addition to the Windows chkdsk command ...
http://forum.cakewalk.com/FindPost/3661851