Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Windows 10 Anniversary update audio performance comparison”.
Hello, I’m Robin Vincent and welcome to this little kind of windows, anniversary experiment, Steinberg, recently posted on their website that, after you’ve installed the anniversary update. Their testing has shown that you may find a five to ten percent drop in performance. That’S very interesting and also quite devastating, so we are on the eve of the anniversary update the update should hit at some point tomorrow. So I thought, if I can, I’m gon na run a quick load of benchmarks on Cubase and other bits of software on my system to see if there is any performance change at all once the update has gone through, so I’m going to run some tests now That will record on video and then we’ll sit it side by side. When I run the test again in a couple of days by then the update should have installed. We have no way to prevent it. Coming it’s just gon na come in from Microsoft and devour our computers. It’S coming, there’s nothing! We can do except to hold on and brace ourselves being the optimistic sort of chap that I am I’m kind of assuming it’s going to be a good thing, but the post by Steinberg is definitely very troubling so anyway, here’s a bunch of tests on here I’m Also going to do some tests on the surface pro 4, just for a comparison and we’ll see what happens in a couple of days. This is the door bench test.
We are currently running at 128 samples. I have 40 tracks of audio setup with 8 inserts of the Aria calm, standalone, multi compressor, so that’s 320 plugins in a total, which is enough to sink a lot of systems for my system here is not doing too bad. So we’re going to play this back and just takes a video of the performance. That’S running down here.
It’S not exactly a precise test, because this performance meter is not devastatingly precise, but all we’re after really is some kind of comparison. This is a Pro Tools: 12. D-Verb test, where you load up a bunch of D verbs over multiple tracks.
Here I’ve got ninety six tracks of audio all with four D verbs loaded and we’re going to record a signal generator going through all of those tracks and record what sort of system usage is going on. This is FL Studio before the update. I don’t have any clever projects in here particular this is a demo song called behind banner car and we’re just going to play this and take a look at the CPU meter at the top there’s a testing reason 9.
This is very similar to the Cubase Hallion test, where I’ve got a whole bunch of different since loaded up, and I’m just gon na run the same sort of eighth notes through it. As I did in Hallion – and here they are, I’ve got a whole load of tracks set up. So that’s all, but the last one just sits down here is called 6 oscillator fat on the DSP meter.
You can see that it’s filling up nicely. Here’S a fairly large project in bit wig, but I’m still not particularly filling up the CPU, but let’s run this scene. Seven just take a few moments of this. This is the hariom telephony test. On the surface pro 4, we are running about 31 hylians, and that is just about all. This can take.
Let’S have a look. I was alive before the update the simple project using five Arturia synths, I’m gon na get about 20, 21 percent. So with movement in learning it sort of 38 %. So what do we think about that? Well, there’s not a lot in it. Is there? No, not really not that I could see.
I mean the results seem pretty much identical. There was one test: the honey and tests on the surface pro 4. That did seem to indicate a tiny, tiny little bit of extra processing, but really it kind of falls into the margin of error. So, with these tests with what I did, it seems to say that there really isn’t a performance difference between Windows, 10 and the Windows, 10 anniversary update, and that’s a really good thing.
However, I should stress that the tests I’ve Donna just sort of cobbled together simple tests on a couple of projects in a couple of bits of software. You know I kind of threw it together the night before the update, when I had this inspired idea that I really should take some kind of benchmark, so they shouldn’t be taken as absolute gospel. It’S just I did one test. I ran an update.
I did another test. I haven’t spent weeks putting it together. It was just very much off-the-cuff, so hopefully it’s an indication of what’s going on and if there was a massive problem, then hopefully it would have been revealed. But as far as I can see with every bit of software, it all worked pretty much as expected.
However, Cubase was a bit more troublesome when you run Cubase for the first time, there seems to be a little something that goes on. It has to refine plugins and bits and pieces like that, and then the elicenser seems to bomb out, but it allows Cubase to continue running and also have had some crashes on exit since running the update. So, there’s definitely something going on in Cubase and I imagine that’s what Steinberg sort of ran into and probably has something to do with the statement they released. However, a performance drop is not really what I experienced.
However, it’s now been a year since Windows 10 coming out. It’S been six months since about the surface pro 4. So what I am gon na do is, over the next few weeks, I’m going to put together another large array of tests run everything I can think of on the surface pro 4 to recheck and retest, and to see where we are now in terms of compatibility With audio and music software, there’s one thing that I have noticed on the surface pro or is that my power profile has been messed with.
I use a registry hack to allow me to access all of the power profile options and those have all disappeared again. The other thing is that Microsoft seemed to have introduced a whole raft of little apps to run in the background, whereas previously there was like half a dozen that you had to turn off now, there’s like 20, including stuff that has absolutely no business running. In the background, so there may be other stuff in here, which is all supposed to be enormous, ly helpful for the everyday user, which is going to end up causing us a bit of a problem. But we shall see so stay tuned for more videos on making music and tweaking and getting it all to work, which is what we’re about so in the meantime, I hope that was useful. I hope that was interesting. Please let me know what sort of results you get. I have heard from someone who had some trouble with timing and a drum machine since running the update.
So, who knows what’s going to happen on your machine, so you know get in touch and in the meantime go make some tunes. .