Pretty much built my PC around using Ardour (love 8.10 by the way) and specs are;
Xeon CPU E5-2667 v3 @ 3.20GHz 8-core
64Gb DDR4 ram
Scarlett 2i4 usb
Nvidia 1070 8Gb
running AV MX Linux 21.10 (xfce)
But I still find that after setting out a few tracks, I usually start with a template of around 25 tracks inc AVL drums (9) and after recording both midi and audio, I start to get a lot of screen lag when scrolling up and down the tracks. Sometimes it gets so bad that I scroll down, let go of the mouse and have to sit and wait for the scroll to complete its way down.
Was working on a project last night, cpu load did not get above 22% but there were 110 errors, which might be a clue?
Any suggestions as to where I can track down the problem? Am happy to upgrade my PC if it needs it, but from watching a few youtube guides, my PC seems powerful enough to cope with what Ardour requires. My son occasionally boots into a different distro and runs quite demanding games which the system seems to perform very smoothly…
Also, after reading a few posts on performance, could anyone recommend a decent set of hardware specs to get the most out of Ardour? Most of the posts I have read tend to focus on single items of hardware but it would be nice to know what a system would look like that would not suffer from any performance issues…