Just working on my video for my German community. It seems after a while my CPU starts to overheat. Everything is normal till around minute 14. Then it gets crazy. Taskmanager shows CPU in the low 20s. But temperature went up to 90 degrees Celsius. At which point I killed Scaler Detector and temperatures went down again.
My system is an AMD Ryzen 7 9700X 8-Core Processor Win 11 25H2
Hi @kjlietz this is very odd and not something we have found or heard reported from other users. Internally it is very similar to Scaler 3 so I would not think resource usage would be substantially different. Should be more efficient if anything. But we can certainly look into this.
What was Scaler Detector doing when overheating occurred? Did you have more than once instance? Was there anything else going on in your DAW session?
As I was demonstrating Detector, I also had Scaler 3 in my project as source for progressions. Maybe there is kind of a conflict. I was also a beta tester and I found no issues with it before. But I did not run it for longer stretches of time. I realized the overheating first time when I set-up my demo environment in Ableton Live. As you might know I usually work with Cubase. But audio routing is so much easier with AL that I decided to go with this DAW for the video.
After I realized my CPU was crossing 80 degrees Celsius without significant load on it. I removed detector from the project and the CPU temperatures went down again. During my video I had to load detector again and CPU temperatures were kind of OKish for some time. I revisited the CPU readings from time to time and started to begin to think it was a one-off experience. But then the temperatures started to rise. At that point I wanted to know it and put the analyser on audio and played an audio-clip in AL on loop. First it seemed it had no impact but then it almost jumped to 90 degrees Celsius at which point I stopped the experiment.
The demonstration set-up consisted of Air music Stage Piano, Scaler 3 as a source for progressions, an audio track and Scaler Detector. That’s all. The load on AL as well on the CPU in general was very low even when the CPU overheated. My PC runs mostly silent even with demanding games so this is a special occurrence. OBS could be a factor too. But most of the work does the GPU.
I will keep an eye on it and report back if I see this happening again. It might be interesting if it happens in AL, but not in Cubase (which I used in beta testing).
It seems, CPU overheating only happens in the combination with Ableton Live. Under the same setting as in Ableton Live I had Detector without any temperature issues running for more than an hour in Cubase 14 Pro.
I repeated it in Ableton Live. It ran fine for some time and boom! temperatures started to rise over 80 degrees again. It did not reach 90 though. So maybe it is worse if unloading the plugin and reloading it later. I do not know.
As I am writing this, my Cubase project is running in the background again, temperatures in the high 50s. 