Superior Drummer 3 stutters on blazing fast AlderLake hardware

[Kim Mossige]

Problem description: Stutters when using SD3 with my new machine when...

Problem description: Stutters when using SD3 with my new machine when I play with a Roland TD17KVX midi controller.. For reference it works 100% fine on my old computer, a coffee lake 8700K with 32gb DDR4 ra.. I have completely reinstalled Windows 11 on this machine, but the stutters are still there even on “high performance” mode.. My computer has been reinstalled three times without it helping.

How it feels: I can play normally, and then stutter comes often when I play hard and fast on the cymbals or kick.. It’s as if the samples won’t get registered fast enough, even though the latency is very low and good. I’ve tested with various latency settings, aswell as having the samples on another harddrive.

Theory: My theory is that this Alder Lake architecture that uses bigLITTLE has trouble assigning SD3 exe to the correct cores.. Maybe it pushes SD3 over to the efficiency cores? Is this a problem with Superior Drummer 3 in relation to Alder Lake and Windows 11’s CPU govenor, perhaps?

What can be the reason for this? Is this a confirmed issue with Alder Lake and Windows 11? I can’t find anything regarding this on google, and I feel alone with this issue.

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My current specs:
Fractal Design Meshify 2 White TG Clear Tint
Fans: 2x 140mm front, 1x 140mm bak, ATX, mATX, ITX, Varenr: 1168651 / Prodnr: FD-C-MES2A-05
Intel Core i9-12900K @5.2ghz
ROG STRIX RTX 3090
Corsair RM1000x 1000W PSU
Arctic Freezer II AIO 360
Corsair Dominator Platinum RGB DDR5 5200Mhz 32GB (2x16GB)
x2 WD Black SN850 1TB M.2 SSD
Samsung QVO 8TB SSD (Current sample holder)
ASUS ROG STRIX Z690-F GAMING WIFI, LGA1700 Hovedkort

Focusrite Clarett 4PRE USB
Roland TD17-KVX drumset
SD3 + MetalFoundry and Decades

Superior Drummer 3 version: 3.2.8
Operating system: Windows 11

Problem description: Stutters when using SD3 with my new machine when I play with a Roland TD17KVX midi controller.. For reference it works 100% fine on my old computer, a coffee lake 8700K with 32gb DDR4 ra.. I have completely reinstalled Windows 11 on this machine, but the stutters are still there even on “high performance” mode.. My computer has been reinstalled three times without it helping.

How it feels: I can play normally, and then stutter comes often when I play hard and fast on the cymbals or kick.. It’s as if the samples won’t get registered fast enough, even though the latency is very low and good. I’ve tested with various latency settings, aswell as having the samples on another harddrive.

Theory: My theory is that this Alder Lake architecture that uses bigLITTLE has trouble assigning SD3 exe to the correct cores.. Maybe it pushes SD3 over to the efficiency cores? Is this a problem with Superior Drummer 3 in relation to Alder Lake and Windows 11’s CPU govenor, perhaps?

What can be the reason for this? Is this a confirmed issue with Alder Lake and Windows 11? I can’t find anything regarding this on google, and I feel alone with this issue.

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My current specs:
Fractal Design Meshify 2 White TG Clear Tint
Fans: 2x 140mm front, 1x 140mm bak, ATX, mATX, ITX, Varenr: 1168651 / Prodnr: FD-C-MES2A-05
Intel Core i9-12900K @5.2ghz
ROG STRIX RTX 3090
Corsair RM1000x 1000W PSU
Arctic Freezer II AIO 360
Corsair Dominator Platinum RGB DDR5 5200Mhz 32GB (2x16GB)
x2 WD Black SN850 1TB M.2 SSD
Samsung QVO 8TB SSD (Current sample holder)
ASUS ROG STRIX Z690-F GAMING WIFI, LGA1700 Hovedkort

Focusrite Clarett 4PRE USB
Roland TD17-KVX drumset
SD3 + MetalFoundry and Decades

Superior Drummer 3 version: 3.2.8
Operating system: Windows 11

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[John]

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[zenwarlord]

One thing I wanted to chime in about.  I used latency monitor to track down something awhile back that had to do with some hardware in a slot (that came with a pc).  In that case it was a tv tuner thing – but now when I experience any latency issues with music software I tend to look at drivers.  In that case I had to disable that device and it totally resolved the spikes in latency that were happening (in that case they were happening once a minute or so).  So it could be that your computer is responding for any number of reasons – internal hardware, antivirus, etc. But I hope you find out the “when” of it (associated with your problem, and a potential cause) so it doesn’t feel so mysterious.

[sparscky]

Does your hi-hat sound like my attached .mp3?  It’s the 15″ Paiste 2002 Extra Heavy.

It doesn’t matter which I choose, they all have awful decay for some reason.  I have not messed with any editing on them.

Cymbals and Ride sound fine.

Superior Drummer 3 version: 3.3.2
Operating system: macOS Monterey (12)

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