Audacity Forum

Unfortunately that article did not help.

It's a Windows 10 process. When I download Audacity on my new computer it is activated inappropriately and causes a lot of cpu usage with the laptop overheating. I can see in the task manager that it's the "windows audio device graph isolation" process causing the issue. This does not happen on my o...

Does anyone else have the problem that Audacity causes the "Window audio device graph isolation" process to tax the CPU? If so, is there a fix?

Hi Koz, Thanks for the speedy reply. I did download it from you, but I went ahead and deleted it and used the link you sent. It immediately activates the "Windows Audio Device graph Isolation" which taxes the CPU. Again some of the shortcuts are missing as well. These do not happen on my old Windows...

I just bought a new HP laptop (SSD, Ryzen 5), and the program seems to be causing problems. It activates the "Window audio device graph isolation" and causes too much CPU usage, heating up the laptop quite a bit. The program also seems to be missing shortcuts. I had no problems with this on my old l...