Jumpy display when recording

[redss]

In cakewalk sonar 8.5, when recording audio OR midi, the time counter and the vertical moving line time indicator is so jumpy that it only updates about twice a second. But it displays smoothly on earlier versions of sonar I have loaded (versions 2.2 and 4) using the same soundcard (m-audio usb) and bit rate (16).

Surely version 8.5 isn't so much more resource intensive than the earlier versions that my system can't keep the visual indicators updated?

[redss]

Problem solved...hitting the pause key fixed it.

I'm curious though... does sonar 8.5 use up more resources than sonar 2 in that I would need a faster computer to do what sonar 2 does smoothly?

[Jonesey9]

Probably.

8.5 is a much more powerful program with many extra features that version 2 never had.

It would be naive to think that 8.5 consumed LESS resources than 2