well i tried all of these tips m8 and nope, it's still bad.

can anyone out there tell me what their process viewer in apps/utils says in the following circumstances? (this is also the usual way i make a track and inever had any probs in cubase 5-1 like this.)

1) Totally empty project - no audio tracks no nothing. 5-15%CPU in process viewer. (0% in VST performance)
2) 24 tracks of 4 beat aiff loops and playing - 35-45% CPU in the process viewer (my VST performance in Cubase only says 10%???!!!!!!!!!!!!!). Oh my god, when I click on the sliders to change the manification of the view I get 80% on the process viewer!!!!!!
3) Repeat the aiffs (not shared copies) . First 7 times. Then Glue. Then repeat 30 times to get a nice 5-6 minute track. CPU in the process viewer is the same (35-40%), so is VST performance, but now when i click on the sliders to change the manification, I get between 80-100% (!!!!) on the process viewer. and it takes ages to make any changes whatsoever. in fact, it's impossible.

Why is the process viewer showing such radically different CPU usage to the VST performance meter? And why is the process viewer obviously right and the VST performance so wrong.

HEAD F*K!

i'm running a G4 titanium with 256 MB memory so surely this shouldn't be happening?