CPU Spikes are making FL Studio unusable - support forum is waste of time since years

[clipnotic]

Well, I'm really old and I'm using FL Studio since Fruity Loops 3. And after that long time, now I'm thinking about to change the DAW. The reason are randomly CPU spikes since FL Studio 24. I hoped that in FL Studio 25 they fixed it, but of course not, it even got worse and now it's unusable! Over that many years I also postet several problems and bugs in their forum, they fixed really nothing!

I'm producing professional with very good pc systems and I don't have such problems with other software! That CPU Spikes appearing also on tracks with only a few VSTs like Sylenth, Dune, Nexus. The CPU is only used with 10%, but I get CPU spikes with 90% and without any reason!

I know all FL Studio features and settings, because I'm working every day with it! This problems are just bad programming!

Is there any chance to fix that?

[osiris]

I have to turn off everything. I mean no internet. Shut down Copilot. Put on Do Not Disturb in Settings, then you will be fine.

[clipnotic]

Yes, no internet helps a bit, but I also get spikes if I disable everything! I thought the problem is copy protection shit from VSTs, but it's not, it also happens on tracks with only audio files. Sometimes it takes minutes to load audio files, I'm using fast SSD drives.

They killed it!

[Trancit]

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They killed it!

They didn´t kill anything... if so the vast majority of users would report something like this... but nope... it´s perhaps 2-3 people!

If you like it or not... it´s your machine... not FL Studio.
I never have had any CPU spikes... not with V24 nor now with V25 and in the forum it seems the vast majority doesn´t have any problems neither. Otherwise there would be threat after threat about it...

There were a lot of bugs, yes... but they have now reached again a normal state.
Again... it must be something special on your machine which is causing the problems.
Some silly virus scanner, some other programm running in the background, incompatible drivers... it can be anything

[Trancit]

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[clipnotic]

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They killed it!

They didn´t kill anything... if so the vast majority of users would report something like this... but nope... it´s perhaps 2-3 people!

If you like it or not... it´s your machine... not FL Studio.
I never have had any CPU spikes... not with V24 nor now with V25 and in the forum it seems the vast majority doesn´t have any problems neither. Otherwise there would be threat after threat about it...

There were a lot of bugs, yes... but they have now reached again a normal state.
Again... it must be something special on your machine which is causing the problems.
Some silly virus scanner, some other programm running in the background, incompatible drivers... it can be anything

sweet! I'm producing over 30 years, you can be sure, that my "machine" is not the problem! This "machine" runs almost every known music software, VSTs and so on (except NI shit, this is still more horrible!). And there are not only 2-3 people, you should google this! How much they pay you for such crap posts or do you only get the lifetime updates still for free?

[Trancit]

sweet! I'm producing over 30 years, you can be sure, that my "machine" is not the problem! This "machine" runs almost every known music software, VSTs and so on (except NI shit, this is still more horrible!). And there are not only 2-3 people, you should google this! How much they pay you for such crap posts or do you only get the lifetime updates still for free?

There is no need for them to pay me for anything and there should no need for you to attack me just because I wrote something you personally don´t like to hear/read...

I wish you good luck with your "Pro" machine... but it´s obvious, things won´t get better as long as you don´t accept it´s something on your side and it´s up to you to find the error.

[seafire]

Have you tried turning it off, then on again?

[h66]

Probably the "wrong" plugins;o) Markus from Tone2 once explained it.

[D-Fusion]

Well, I'm really old and I'm using FL Studio since Fruity Loops 3. And after that long time, now I'm thinking about to change the DAW. The reason are randomly CPU spikes since FL Studio 24. I hoped that in FL Studio 25 they fixed it, but of course not, it even got worse and now it's unusable! Over that many years I also postet several problems and bugs in their forum, they fixed really nothing!

I'm producing professional with very good pc systems and I don't have such problems with other software! That CPU Spikes appearing also on tracks with only a few VSTs like Sylenth, Dune, Nexus. The CPU is only used with 10%, but I get CPU spikes with 90% and without any reason!

I know all FL Studio features and settings, because I'm working every day with it! This problems are just bad programming!

Is there any chance to fix that?

It would probably be more helpfull if you mentioned the spec on your pc to see if people with similar setup has the same issues.

There are many things that can cause these kinds of issues like not having enough ram, using onboard gpu or the intel 12-14th gen using the e-cores instead of the p-cores or that the pc is not optimized for daw's with lots of energy saving options enabled.

[MirkoVanHauten]

No issues here with it. Generally never had much trouble with FL. So it's hardly bAd PrOgRaMmInG.

[suseka2003]

A person went to a doctor complaining body pain everywhere.
He said, You see doc, I touch my neck, it pains. I touch my leg, it pains. I touch my nose, it pains. It pains everywhere.

The doctor replied, you have a broken finger.

Sound similar?

[THE INTRANCER]

Run a test setup so you can compare between different DAWs. That way you can compare and rule out if it's the DAW to blame. If you get the same result then you can start looking at what is running in background processes. If you still have problems, look at what is connected to the computer and remove what you don't need like external hard disks or SSDs. Run the tests again, and if problems still occur check your BIOS settings. Run some tests to see if your SSD's are performing as they should. The alternative is to use another computer setup. If this is not possible then it would help if you posted your computer setup so you can compare with others. This includes any audio interfaces you are using and whether you are using the latest firmware for the device.

[BertKoor]

I'd start with running Resplendence LatencyMon, see what that reports...
https://resplendence.com/latencymon

[osiris]

That and doing a Ctrl/Alt/Del to bring up your resource manager and see what is chewing up CPU. I get random spikes. And I think it's when something tries to 'phone home'.