Audacity Forum

Sometimes it would snap out of it and handle it perfectly fine That would get my attention right there. We can justify a slow machine or process, we can't justify when a machine gets it in its craw to work right sometimes...and not others. Did you make the machine? Have you ever used a memory check...

I don't know what you would call "very laggy", but handling this amount of data is certainly non-trivial and even on a fast machine I would not expect Audacity to be "snappy". Thanks, Steve. I figured that would be the case in this situation... Sometimes it would snap out of it ...

4Ghz 8-core processor I think it's still true Audacity is a single core application. As are all audio apps... Since the audio streams have to run in a very tight sync, you cannot distribute them easily over multiple processors. Besides that, all the slowness I've seen with audio lately, seems relat...

I am running Audacity 2.1.2 on Windows 8.1 64-bit OS, downloaded from the installer on the official website. My OS and Audacity are being loaded from a Samsung 500GB SSD. I'm running an AMD FX 8350 Vishera 4Ghz 8-core processor, with 32GB 1600Mhz RAM and a Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD3 rev. 3.0 motherboard...