Rharv, You pointed me in the right direction concerning the audio driver. After 4 days of testing I finally figured out it was an audio driver from another piece of software called sound tap by NCH. The driver that was causing the problem is stdriverX64.sys I used ProcessHacker software to figure out which driver was causing the issue.

I uninstalled the Sound Tap software and now my CPU is running about 93% idle with Realband.exe taking about 5%.

Thanks also to VideoTrack for your suggestions, I appreciate the help!

All is well now in frozen North Dakota!


Del