Using Sound Forge Audio Cleaning Lab 3, 25.0.0.23(DP3) unicode, with Izotope Ozone 9, RX9, Nectar3, and a few others. When I first started using ACL3 with these plug ins, it would take about 15 to throw my PC overloaded message. That was a few months ago. Now, depending on the plug ins used, it seems to trigger the PC overload warning after about 4 plug ins. These are all the same plug ins used previously, but now it seems as if my PC can handle less. And I am using them on the same files. I have about 50 songs I've been working on... The same 50 I have been using/working for over a year with no issues until recently. I have a dell optiplex 7020 with 16 gig of ram. I only have the "stock" sound card though. Would adding a soundcard help? like soundblaster G5? Maybe this is related, maybe not, but, I also noticed that the sound quality is pure garbage now in ACL3, at least most of the time it is. I will open a file, go to play it and it sounds off and distorted, like plug ins used on other tracks are active on the current track as well as it's own plug ins. I open that same file up in another program, like RX9, and it plays fine. I was wondering, does ACL3 open up with all the settings from a previous song set as the new default/starting point? It has gotten so bad that I am having to skip using ACL3 and just open files up straight into RX9 to work on them. I loose all my ACL3 editing ability that way though. My speakers are Logitech Z623 and sound good, but maybe they alter the sound somehow? I have noticed that when I adjust the volume using the speaker volume knob, sporadic static is played thru the speakers. Sometimes it is VERY loud static. That's my issue. I am editing mostly old cassette tapes(~20 tears old) and most are not recorded in a studio either. I say this becaue thye require a lot of cleaning and I still can't get no where near all of it clean. It's just frustrating when I clean up a song in ACL3 and then transfer it to a jump drive to play in my truck and it sounds nothing like it did on my PC. That leads me to believe either my PC speakers, my PC, or the ACL3 program is messing up somehow.