Alright. So if buying a new laptop with i5 and 6GB of ram does the trick, i'll buy one.

VirtualMark: I tried changing the ASIO setup and raising the buffer settings but it changes nothing and the disk meter doesnt even move so it isnt disk cache overload. It's always that ASIO meter that keeps going to the max.

Dustwyrm: I'm using a pc.

Thanks for the reply mate.
I don't really want to spend my money on a new pc (it has 3 years i think), so i was thinking of only buying what is necessary to make this problem go away so that I could finish my tunes.

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I've been making tunes on cubase 5 recently and the problem I got 2 weeks ago is that the asio time is always overloading due to the amount of effects (eqs and all that) and vsts (15 ...