Have you got record enabled on a track? If you have asio guard enabled and then record enable a track then it will switch off asio guard and those meters will shoot up.

Take a look at the information from Steinberg and, after reading it,
give some thought to why this cannot be answered in such a generalized way…

https://helpcenter.steinberg.de/hc/en-u … and-Nuendo

If you have issues that even big ASIO buffers do not prevent audio drops, then you should check whether your system is configured properly (no energy saving, no cpu core parking, no bad driver blocking CPU cores = low DPC latency, to be measured with LatencyMon).

Another reason could be related to the DAW and project structure or the amount of VSTs and whether they suck too much performance.

@bensmir Try to have a look which cores are running at almost full load. You have to switch the CPU graph from total use to logical CPUs.

You have big-little architecture CPU, maybe e-core is almost full load.... In that case either disabling e-cores or using utility like Lasso might help to redirect load just to p-cores....

You have strong computer and very big audio buffer. What plugins do you use? It must be something very computing heavy.... I have used such a big buffer only on rather weak very old notebook...

So I am updating this thread, after getting many help in the cubase forum, sadly the issue is still there.
On a my disabled cubase template, only 6 used tracks, no mix plugin, 256 samples, and the cubase peak meter is at 50-70% during playback, sometimes it hits 100% with an audible clicks. If I improvise a line with my midi keyboard, I am easily between 50 and 70% peak meter and I overload sometimes.
We unplugged my old nvidia card, and I also did the 14f bios gigabyte update that's supposedly fixed intel 14th gen issue, I disabled core parking too