Hello JAYLINZ,
Whilst a CPU temperature problem could conceivably cause problems, and it certainly doesn't hurt to keep an eye on the temperature, if you haven't done so already, I'd still highly recommend working through the remaining PC performance troubleshooting steps in the Hauptwerk user guide (pages 308-310 in the v7.0 version).
E.g. it covers some other very common things that resolve periodic audio glitches on PCs, such as:
- Make sure that you have the latest BIOS installed for the PC's motherboard.
- Make sure that you have all power-saving functions in the BIOS disabled, if relevant.
- Make sure that all current operating system updates are installed.
- Make sure that you have the latest versions of the drivers and firmware installed for all of your hardware.
- Disable all Windows power-saving functions, including the options for putting USB ports/devices to sleep.
- Disable Windows' drive indexing for all hard-drives.
- Disable Windows’ scheduled hard-drive defragmentation.
- Some people have reported to us that they needed to disable Windows Superfetch in order to get reliable low-latency audio with their computers, otherwise the background storage accesses it causes gave them occasional audio glitches.
- Disconnect any hardware devices that are not absolutely essential for Hauptwerk and the computer to function, to see whether that eliminates the problem.
- Try keeping any network leads and Internet connections disconnected while using the computer for audio.
Also try leaving LatencyMon running whilst Hauptwerk is running and see if it reports any problems when the audio glitches occur. If so, it will often give a strong clue as to their source.
Roglu wrote:1) Set priority to "real-time" in Task Manager Hauptwerk.
2) Run Hauptwerk as an administrator.
That's it.
JAYLINZ wrote:4) Setting priority to real-time in task manager and running as administrator
Whilst most PCs work fine without using real-time priority, some (e.g. due to driver/hardware performance issues) do seem to need it. However, there isn't actually a need to use Task Manager to change the priority. Hauptwerk will do it for you automatically if you tick the "
Try to run Hauptwerk at real-time priority on Windows" preference for the purpose on the "
General settings | General preferences | Advanced …" screen tab in Hauptwerk and make sure that you launch Hauptwerk 'as administrator'. Hauptwerk will then change its own priority to real-time whenever audio/MIDI starts, and set it back to normal whenever it stops, so as to avoid hogging the CPU unnecessarily (and wasting a bit of power) at other times. (See also the 2nd paragraph on page 309 in the v7 user guide for details.)
Best regards, Martin.
Hauptwerk software designer/developer, Milan Digital Audio.