I have ditched the Adobe CC overpriced subscription and returned to Vegas Pro and Sound Forge. Yesterday when I was editing some old veg files created in version 11, I noticed that there was an overabundance of stuttering when playing the time-line. The only effects were from iZotope using Elements 3, and Ozone. Only two tracks were playing.
I looked for a way to increase the RAM or whatever else I might need to to eliminate the stuttering. I have a I7, 16 GB RAM on a Windows 10 laptop.
At first I thought it was because I was using a 5400 RPM data drive, but when I copied all the files to an external 500 GB SSD drive I still got the stuttering. There are no video tracks in any of the 20+ vegs I was working with. My system drive is a 1 GB PCIE SSD.