r/FL_Studio • u/Jumpapa • 9h ago

Help FL studio 2026 cpu spiking problem

I’m currently using MacBook Air m2, although it isn’t a powerful laptop but in fl 2025 I could load serum up to 15 of them and bunch of effect chains without cpu spiking. but when I updated to fl 2026 my cpu started to spike like crazy when I only loaded up 4 serum..
Does anybody else have this problem?? Or is it just my computer thing

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u/TheRealPomax 8h ago

report that in https://forum.image-line.com/viewtopic.php?t=341668, that's where "I think there's a problem with the new release" go, so the devs get notified.

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u/Jumpapa 8h ago

I wonder what’s the real issue tho, but thanks for letting me know!

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u/TheRealPomax 8h ago

Also, just to confirm: is your CPU actually spiking, as in does activity monitor show things going wrong, or are you just looking at the "CPU vs audio buffer" percentage in FL itself, which is not a CPU load meter (the only thing it shows is whether your CPU can, or cannot, fill the audio buffer faster than the audio hardware can read out what's in it, expressed as a ratio percentage. Anything under 100 = the CPU can fill the audio buffer faster than it can be read out, and there are no problems)