Extremely slow/laggy performance

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UPDATE: I have resolved my situation!

  1. I found out how to update it to version 3.7.7 ; I have no idea if this is related to the success, but following that…
  2. …it looked like it was only one .aup3 file in specific having laggy issues following updating; beforehand, I hadn’t tested how other files had been behaving since the lagginess came around. But as I had went to a separate .aup3 file I had recorded the same day, it performed completely fine! Not a bit of lag! After that, I converted the recording that had been giving me trouble into an .mp3 and then into an .aup3 file and it was buttery smooth!

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Yesterday evening , I noticed Audacity began performing extremely slow & laggy, despite me not changing anything at all.

It now takes about 2 or 3 seconds to register a click on the audio and if I decide to delete even a fraction of a second, it will take upwards of 15 seconds. It performs like this regardless if I have multiple other things running or another else at all.

I am using Audacity 3.7.5 (when updating the program through MuseHub , this was the version it updated to) on a PC with 16 GB of RAM and an AMD Ryzen 5 5600GT with Radeon Graphic as the processor.

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So far, just update to the latest version I could.

As I stated in the post, I also tried closing all other programs open on my PC to see if that would improve performance, which it did not.

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I’m on Windows 11 version 25H2 (sorry if this isn’t the right info, I’m quite tech illiterate); it says that I’m up to date regarding updates. According to my brief research, it seems like drivers should be updated whenever a Windows update happens. And I have shut down my PC since it last updated and since I began having these issues as well.

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I am on desktop PC.

I will also head over to the MuseHub forums.

Thanks for being willing to assist so far and if you have anything else you can share, please do!

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UPDATE:

I have resolved the situation!

  1. I found out how to update it to version 3.7.7 ; I have no idea if this is related to the success, but following that…
  2. …it looked like it was only one .aup3 file in specific having laggy issues following updating; beforehand, I hadn’t tested how other files had been behaving since the lagginess came around. But as I had went to a separate .aup3 file I had recorded the same day, it performed completely fine! Not a bit of lag! After that, I converted the recording that had been giving me trouble into an .mp3 and then into an .aup3 file and it was buttery smooth!
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Has 6 cores, Audacity is only using one of them, hence slow/laggy …

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

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