6.5 - Why is saving still so slow?

Getalife2 · July 28, 2014, 3:12pm

Big K:

This has been a problem for quite a few users over a number of versions.
Here, we have hardly ever seen this sluggish autosafe behaviour.
It runs smoothly in the background and only with larger project, incl. VSTi, it is noticeable, at all.
The only difference in setup to our e.g. office machines is: more power, no internet (only for updates
and authorisation procedures), no progs that aren’t “studio” or audio, except word, searchtool “Everything”
and some Piriform gadgets. Antivirus software has had no effects, but is not installed, a.t.m.
Mind you, some older plugins have caused severe problems earlier on. The shift to 64 bit brought some probs,
but this has all been sorted out, quite a while ago.

It is about time that the cause for this lame autosafe was discovered.
I can imagine that it is quite irritating…

Servus, Big K

You posted this while I was typing my post above.

So, we are both on newer i7 with Win 7 x64 with 16GB ram and neither of us noticing Autosave at work. Like you, my DAWs are not online, no Antivirus and no apps that are not directly needed for a DAW. Also, all plugins are professional grade and well tested.

So it appears that the things we have in common prevent Autosave from being an issue. I’m not saying SB should not improve this, but not everyone has this problem, which is helpful info.

I have to ask, if I may, what is your frequency of crashes? I have had zero crashes while working in 2014. Zero. Tons of VSTi and audio with fairly large track counts, but I work on 5 minute songs, not feature length films. I do think project length makes a difference. Working with RME MADI, usually at 64 or 128 buffers.