Audio CPU level too high when starting Renoise 3.2.1

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R3.2.1, W10.
Apparently, I had a strange problem with the CPU audio level (top right). On my main machine I use an Intel i7 6700K with 4 cores and 8 threads, and 32GB of DDR4 RAM.

When you start Renoise, an empty song, without any instrument, without playing the song, doing nothing, the audio CPU level ranged from 3 to 11%, changing very quickly. I found something out of the ordinary.

To check if this was common in R3.2.1 and W10, I did the same test on a laptop with an Intel i3, and it ranged between 0.4 and 1.3%.

To solve the apparent problem, I made sure to uninstall R3.2.1 and reinstalled it inside my main machine. The problem disappeared, and now the audio CPU level seems to work correctly.

Has someone else had a similar situation? I don’t think it has to do with any VST / VSTi, or the Sample Rate, or Latency or anything like that. But something was failing here, it didn’t work properly.

I remember that a few weeks ago I didn’t have this problem. Suddenly, it happened. And I don’t know how to explain it.

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Did you check your power profile? If the cpu was clocked down, the usage meter might be raised.

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Well, it seems that this is the cause. I have been manipulating some energy plans.

I think the only thing I updated is the Nvidia drivers for the graphics card. Probably, the energy plan changed from high performance to balanced, and this influences the level. I remember that before I had it in high performance. Actually, I didn’t think that this would influence the audio CPU level so much, since it’s around 11% (an extremely high level, when Renoise is supposed to be “doing nothing”). Now it is always below 2%, as usual. Curious.

Thank you for mentioning it!

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