Thanks for the screen-shot.
The Mixer shot is tricky to interpret as most of the device names cannot be disambiguated from "Play". It can sometimes help the workflow if (in Playback Devices right-hand column) you rename all the instances of "Play (xx)" to short names (like G1, G2, G3 for the Goliath players), so that all the device names in the Mixer can be disambiguated from each other.
It's unusual to need so many duplicated instances of the same player devices for a score with only 25 instruments, as each player instance could in principle support up to 16 instruments each. The RAM demands for playing this score would, I suspect, be considerably reduced, if you minimised the number of duplicate instances of the same device.
If you allocate the four trumpets each to a different player device, then the trumpet samples will probably get loaded 4 times over, whereas if all 4 trumpets are played by the same device, the samples will be loaded just once.
It would be even better if you could reduce the total number of activated player devices to less then the number of CPU cores (8), then each player would get a core to itself.
It would be helpful if you could diagnose what is happening internally when the 5-second delay occurs. Is the delay CPU-bound or disk-bound? The application Windows "Resource Monitor" is helpful in this respect, as it draws time-based charts of CPU, Disk, Memory, and network utilisation, and a 5-second delay should be clearly visible on one or the other of those charts.
As an experiment, if you temporarily choose Playback Configuration "General MIDI (Basic)", do all the delays go away? If yes, then the issue is localised to the demands of the Playback Configuration.
It is puzzling that the new Sibelius is behaving differently from the old one. Note that the user "Preferences" (Ctrl-comma) are not shared between the two products, so it might be worth checking that relevant preferences are the same in both cases.
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Sibelius Ultimate input lag compared to 7.1.3 - aaronnt1, 21 Sep 08:14AM
Re: Sibelius Ultimate input lag compared to 7.1.3 - aaronnt1, 21 Sep 12:39PM
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