Disk is too slow or System Overload [SOLVED]

In one of my projects, every time it gets to bar 9 it gives me the "Disk is too slow or System Overload" warning. I have 24gb of RAM, 6 core 3.33ghz processor, running my project from an external hard drive, and I have frozen all of my tracks except for a few. I have even bounced all of my vst tracks to basic audio tracks as well. This message comes up every single time at the exact same spot of the song, which isn't even the most complicated part of the song. It doesn't have any problems at any other part of the song. I am doing everything at 96khz sample rate which I regret now, and is probably most of the problem, but does anyone know what else I can do to fix this? I also increased my buffer size, made sure know other programs were running, and still nothing.

The first thing to do is to figure out wether you're maxing out your HD or your CPU: click the icons to the left in the LCD display in the control bar and choose "Custom". Double-click the HD and CPU meters to open a floating meter window. Just before you get the warning, which one of those is peaking, is it the CPU or the HD?

The meters show that both the HD and CPU are peaking, although only one of the cores peaks from the 12 virtual cores that are enabled.

I can only assume that you have a lot of regions that start at bar 9? Apparently if you're overloading both the CPU and the HD at the same time... you could try bouncing some of those regions in place if they use a lot of effect. That will lessen the load on the CPU while not putting as much load on the HD as freezing tracks does (freezing is 32 bit floating point so that puts 1.5x the load on your HD vs 24 bit fixed).

That's what I thought was happening as well, but there really aren't a lot of regions happening at that point at least compared to other parts. I made sure to check any hidden tracks as well. I'll try bouncing some of the tracks and see if that helps.

Having nearly all of the tracks frozen was the issue. I simply unfroze some of the tracks and that fixed it. Thanks for the helpful info and tips.

Great, good to hear! Thanks for letting us know what worked for you.