[grs]

Close your plugin windows!

My usual work flow is to have plug ins on everything and open all the time around my Cubase workspace. That's so I can get to them quicker.

Anyway, while chugging away on a track I was at the 80% to 90% CPU limit which my PC lets me get away with but the Virus TI was complaining alot, hung notes, clicks etc. So I decided to close all plug in windows bar the Virus Control and main mixer. Now the exact same song was purring at 50% to 70% and the Virus said thanks buddy and behaved a bit nicer.

Graphical overheads, CPU load, are now competing with your TI. Remember its USB 1 (the poor cousin of firewire).