Jim Stamper

It happens in various projects regardless of what synth. I was able to reproduce it in a simple project with only a few Cakewalk supplied / supported synths and plug-ins. It seems like you need to have several midi and instrument tracks selected, including at least one with a Volume automation envelope AND that track Edit Filter = Volume, and bounce them all down to a single track (like a master mix). I've seen it happen with only 6 tracks. I have a really clean new Intel brand PC - the NUC Enthusiast, Windows 11, and all hardware & software drivers up to date

I've been working with Cakewalk Bandlab support on this, but no resolution yet. I'm posting this in case it might help someone else. Sometimes I get the "catastrophic failure" error when I select a group of tracks and bounce to a new track, usually my "final mix" track. What I've found is I have an Instrument Track and I have Volume automation on that instrument, and I have the "Edit Filter = Volume". When that track is selected and I perform a bounce, it fails with a "catastrophic failure" All I have to do is change the view to "Edit Filter = Clip". Then no problems

Thanks, Yes I also do that when I first set up a PC. But not laptops, I've never used a laptop as my DAW.

Thank you both. All my connectors & cables were new in November. I haven't made any changes. But it's possible something became loose when shifting gear around on the desk. I'll check it out 👍

All of sudden, on opening an existing project, I'm getting blue dialog boxes in the lower right corner that say something like "detected a device change". A couple of these dialogs flash up during the open, then disappear. There doesn't seem to be any problem from that point on. Anyone know what causes this? As far as I know, I haven't made any device changes or updates Thanks

Thanks JnTuneTech, I'll have to look into whether there's an option to set the base configuration as non-gaming. I don't recall from when I installed Windows and all a few months back, but it was hectic at the time. I was migrating around 130 apps from my old PC. As far as I know I haven't had any trouble with the Nvidia component so far, it's the Intel update that's giving me headaches.

I have a 5 month old Intel NUC 11 Enthusiast mini-PC ... nice, quiet, small, powerful. The system is almost all Intel - CPU, Graphics, Intel Driver & Support Assistant, and there is also an NVidia graphics chipset. Now lately Intel has been trying to push a graphics update "Intel® Graphics DCH Driver for Windows® 10 & Windows 11" which includes an ARC management utility ... and things have gotten messy. I tried several times to install the update using Intel utilities and when that failed, I used Intel instructions from Intel Support to "manually" install it. All of this failed. And THEN the Windows Update utility came along and "updated" the Intel driver to an older version than I started with. It's gotten bad enough that I have a support ticket open with Intel, which they've been working for about 2 weeks, with no resolution yet. They just keep asking me for more info, and it's starting to feel like I'm doing their QA testing. Intel hasn't provided much clarity re the purpose of the DCH driver and the ARC utility. They seem to promote it for gaming performance. All I really care about is have a stable Cakewalk environment! So ... does anyone have advice on this Intel graphics driver update and how it might help or hurt the running of CbB? Thanks