Audacity Projects Locking up Halfway Through the Project

[SnowFightStudios]

Hello,
I have been editing in Audacity for about 5 years now. I got a new laptop within the last year. Started to edit on this new laptop which is WAY better than my previous laptop.
I have been running into issues when working in projects. The projects are about 30 minutes long with about 6 Audio Tracks in the project.
Every other project I am working on has started to delay, lock up, and even seemingly get corrupted about halfway through working on the project.

I have loads of storage. My AppData location has hundreds of free GB in space. I just updated to the latest Audacity tonight, still having the issue. It is so weird. My CPU and RAM spike a bit when the project locks up but doesn’t come close to 100%.

Any ideas? It is a bummer. Just cutting a second of audio, or adding a second of empty audio for project can have a second or two delay when I start to see it go bad.

[Trebor]

@SnowFightStudios

My CPU and RAM spike a bit when the project locks up but doesn’t come close to 100%.

Because currently Audacity only uses 1 core, no matter how many you have.

Let's talk about the Audacity rewrite: One core isn't the game anymore

Alright… so I created an issue on the Audacity Github page explaining how Audacity would screw the hell out of just one core on my laptop, basically running the first core on my i9 at 100C or 212F temperature wise, which if you know anything about CPU temps, that’s basically the max temp, and it keeps it like that for as long as Audacity is recording, even if it’s offscreen. CPU temps such as this stress systems and can quickly kill a system much quicker than not, way more or less depending on …

@SnowFightStudios

Just cutting a second of audio, or adding a second of empty audio for project can have a second or two delay when I start to see it go bad.

Because of non-destructive editing (introduced in Audacity 3.1) your one second “smart clip” contains a copy of the entire track it was copied from.

[SnowFightStudios]

Thanks for the info!
Can I disable “smart clip”? I am looking online and it shows me to go to a spot that I don’t see on my Audacity.

[SnowFightStudios]

Okay, I found the smart clip section and have apparently already disabled this unless I am looking at this wrong. Any suggestions?

[SnowFightStudios]

I have also updated my laptop’s firmware, drivers, BIOS. Increased my virtual memory on my Laptop. I also tried uninstalling and re-installing Audacity. I have also updated Audacity to the latest version.
It is such a bummer. I edit all the time and right now it is becoming a clunky slow monster.

[Trebor]

@SnowFightStudios

Okay, I found the smart clip section and have apparently already disabled this unless I am looking at this wrong. Any suggestions?

Unfortunately that does not switch off non-destructive editing, it just excludes the smart clip data from any audio pasted from another Audacity project window,

@SnowFightStudios

it is becoming a clunky slow monster.

Adding CPU intensive features (like non-destructive editing) without multi-core support that’s inevitable.

@SnowFightStudios

I have also updated Audacity to the latest version.

I’m using 2.3.2.

Audacity

NB: Audacity projects are not backwards compatible, v2 cannot open v3 projects, but v3 can open v2.

[SnowFightStudios]

Thank you everyone.
Seems like I will be installing an older version and using that.