I just downloaded cakewalk on my new laptop and
When opening the program, it spinning and spinning just to open project selection window (recent projects). Then if it does opens it- I click on the project that used to work and now it spinning and spinning and then it says- program is not responding
Are any of you using the Realtek ASIO driver? This driver has known issues (it doesn't even pass the basic ASIO SDK tests).
I had exactly the same symptoms described above on my laptop ( with a pretty new i9 6 core/12 thread processor) using the Realtek ASIO driver.
The fix is to switch to WASAPI mode in Preferences->Audio->Playback and Recording.