BeyondQuantum
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Just a few weeks ago I bought a brand new scarlett 2i2 audio interface. Of course, it came with Pro Tools First (like everything does) and for the first week or so of our relationship, things were going great. Tracks were recorded. Good times were had by all. I was so happy with what I had, that I decided to get a paid monthly subscription to Pro Tools. Then, once my money was spent, a flaming arrow of death seemed to strike my computer and things have gone down hill quickly.
As of now, I have uninstalled Pro Tools First and all the wonderful plugins that I suspected caused the aforementioned problems. A lot of people suggested (in other forums like this one) that the plugins were the problem. It made sense. The installation process was bungled by me and I realized that Pro Tools First is its own version of Pro tools. After a mighty facepalming, I installed Pro Tools 2019.6 with no plugins, hoping the latency and ungodly lagginess would cease.
They didn't.
Well, I still can't speak for the latency issues because the program is running so brokenly slow that I can't even record anything to test for latency issues. It seriously takes about 5-10 seconds after clicking on anything or moving the cursor even to respond! I'm assuming this is something a lot of people deal with?
My computer isn't a beast machine, but it's a solid one. It's a Dell Optiplex 790 with 16 gb of DDR3 ram, a 1 tb hard drive and an I5 processor. The graphics card is stock, so it's crap. But, I'm wondering if there's a possible solution to this problem that doesn't involve dropping another $300 or so on a graphics card and some more RAM? I kept getting the "Pro tools ran out of memory" error for a while so I think that it really might be as simple as upgrading my hardware. The system requirements reccommend 32 gb of ram and an i7, so I wouldn't be surprised.
If anyone has any suggestions, I'd be very grateful. I'm new to this site and created an account to ask this specific question. This question has probably been asked already. Thank you in advance!
As of now, I have uninstalled Pro Tools First and all the wonderful plugins that I suspected caused the aforementioned problems. A lot of people suggested (in other forums like this one) that the plugins were the problem. It made sense. The installation process was bungled by me and I realized that Pro Tools First is its own version of Pro tools. After a mighty facepalming, I installed Pro Tools 2019.6 with no plugins, hoping the latency and ungodly lagginess would cease.
They didn't.
Well, I still can't speak for the latency issues because the program is running so brokenly slow that I can't even record anything to test for latency issues. It seriously takes about 5-10 seconds after clicking on anything or moving the cursor even to respond! I'm assuming this is something a lot of people deal with?
My computer isn't a beast machine, but it's a solid one. It's a Dell Optiplex 790 with 16 gb of DDR3 ram, a 1 tb hard drive and an I5 processor. The graphics card is stock, so it's crap. But, I'm wondering if there's a possible solution to this problem that doesn't involve dropping another $300 or so on a graphics card and some more RAM? I kept getting the "Pro tools ran out of memory" error for a while so I think that it really might be as simple as upgrading my hardware. The system requirements reccommend 32 gb of ram and an i7, so I wouldn't be surprised.
If anyone has any suggestions, I'd be very grateful. I'm new to this site and created an account to ask this specific question. This question has probably been asked already. Thank you in advance!