My new Triplecore PC has terrible CPU spikes

[somebody else]

I just finished installing FL Studio 8 om my new Acer AMD 2.1ghz triple core PC (it has 3 gigs of RAM). I also installed the program on my old PC that is only a 2.2 ghz single core with 512mb of RAM.

-FL Studio 8 is a music production program. You can load multiple synthesizer plug-ins in the program which can really put a load on the CPU/RAM.

Anyways, I just tryed playing the same demo song from the program on both of my computers and my old one runs it much better. The audio starts skipping and popping when the PC can't keep up. But on my new PC this starts really bad right at the beginning, and when the song is stopped the CPU is idling around 45% (when i do this on my old PC it idles around 15%, and the song can play almost normally up until a lot of the synth plug-ins start playing simultaneously).


With the song playing on my new PC I opened up the task manager and the CPU load only said about (average of the 3 cores) was around 25-30% (the memory usage was around 900mb), but the FL Studio prorgam says it spikes to about 80%.

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The FL Studio program has it's own CPU and RAM monitors at the top of it's screen. With the song playing the it says the CPU is at 80-90%. Under the RAM slot it says around 240mb. If I click on the RAM slot it gives me the option to show 'available RAM' and 'used RAM'. The available RAM is only 1024 (my PC has 3 gigs). And the 'used RAM' is only 240mb, even though the program is has access to 3 gigs it only says 1024mb is available, and it only uses around 240mb. Is there a setting with the computer that allows me to allocate CPU and RAM to cetain programs, or does this sound like an issue with the program?

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One other thing, when I'm just on the desktop (on my new PC) with no programs running, the task manager says the physical memory is around 37% Is that normal?

Is there some setting or something I'm missing that is causing this FL Studio program to run much worse on my new PC? And for some reason when I click on the task manager to view it while FL Studio is playing a song a get an error that says "a call to an os function failed" and the program crashes. This only happens if I open the task manager though.

If anyone can help me it would be much appreciated.

 

[linkin]

It's an Acer machine. All OEM computer manufacturers put and get paid to load all kinds of bloatware on your system. I would recommend uninstalling all those programs that they gave you (unless you need/want some) as most of them are trial software only and are set to run on startup.
you can disable these by doing the following:
Start > Run > and type "msconfig"
go to the startup tab and uncheck any programs you don't want to run on startup.
Click apply and restart your computer.

Also, how much memory is being used when th computer is idle? Just running firefox on Vista with 2GB of RAM brings me up to 31% RAM usage, but only 15-20% of processor usage.

I'd also look into updates for that FL Studio program, if there are any

 

[somebody else]

I'll try stopping some programs through msconfig. There are definitely a lot of useless programs that ship with the machine. Vista gives me an area where I can "configure the startup programs", but when I go there I'm not able to disable any of them. I'll try it with msconfig.

And when my computer is idle it's using about 2-4% of the processor and about 35% (around 940 mb) of my RAM. When I go to one of the management areas it says I have about 2.8gb of RAM in total, but only about 1780mb of free RAM.

And as far as I know I am using the most up-to-date version of FL Studio. As far as this program crashing while using the task manager, I'm not really worried about it. I figure it's some incompatibility issue. But the inability to run a song even half as good as my crap old computer is what gets me.

 

[elliot_c]

I hate pc manufacturers that do this mainly packard bell I remember being really bad, disable and uninstall as much as possible. Sometimes they include a windows disc aswell as recovery if they do use this or maybe find a way of installing vista another way and using the serial key from acer this can sometimes work...