NI Traktor software - Audio freezes for about half second because of Dual Core

Hello,
I've been testing out Native Instruments Traktor DJ Studio 3 and very frequently, the audio and timeline would freeze for about half a second and the continue playing. I also have a good low-latency PCI-card soundcard, so that's not causing these pauses.
I've managed to get rid of this problem by turning off the second processor core in the BIOS setup. However, I don't like the fact that I'll have to do that every time I use Traktor.
Is this a software or hardware issue? Software that doesn't use both cores should be able to run without problems, but apparently, there are some interrupts happening that prevent some programs from running smoothly.
That's why I'm posting here instead of the NI forums.

Hi
It is very nice to make other users to be attentive to this issue but in my opinion it is definitely wrong place. There are much bigger chances that software producer tests own products on different units and hardware configurations than hardware manufacturers.
Usually, the notebook manufacturers are responsible for OS stability and functionality of every delivered hardware component but not for functionality on third part software.
Because of that, try to pick up some info from Native-instruments. If you will find some useful info please let us know. The dual-core units are new on the market and like you can see there are first problems. Every useful info is welcome.
Good luck!

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