I have a brand new ASUS Zenbook UX5400E, with an i7 processor, 16 GB of RAM and a 500 GB SSD, running the latest Windows 11 Home 21H2. I am playing on the latest release of Traktor (no beta) on an S4 MK2. All my drivers and bios are up to date.
The problem I am having is that about 20-30 minutes into a set, and then every 20-30 minutes thereafter, Traktor grinds to a horribly distorted crawl, maybe half tempo sounding like aliens are singing.
I have tried turning off all power-saving/sleep options on the USB ports, have disabled WIFI, disabled almost every other unnecessary bit of hardware, turned off as many features/programs in the start menu as I could, disabled Windows updates, enabled focus mode, etc. etc. and it was still doing this the last time I played out.
Oddly enough, two weeks before, it didn't happen, but out of the last 5 times I've played since I got the laptop, it's happened 4 out of 5 times.
A simple swipe of the touchpad will bring it back to playing normally. I play for 6 hours though and am afraid to step away for a minute to use the toilet or get a drink.
Any help would be hugely appreciated as this is driving me crazy and it's not a good look.