Blinking plugin windows - crash while saving

[Peter Inouye]

Sometimes when saving, all my plugin windows start blinking erratically when a save starts. The save can be auto or manual save. Once in a while the save eventually completes, but other times it will blink forever and the "saving" bar in the console stays on slightly above empty.

Example

I'm currently on build 2021.01 (Build 085, 64-bit) but this problem has been around for me for a while. This machine is on Windows 7.

I feel like it doesn't happen when I first start projects but starts after I hit 170+ tracks or so, with lots of plugins and FX. Sometimes when it is bad, I only trigger saves with no plugins open, and when I forget that more than 2 or 3 are open, this happens. But if I close all plugin windows, it will save normally. Sometimes when triggering a save, the plugin windows will all blink briefly (giving me a heart attack) but then save normally. Also "HUDTimeNow" will constantly pop up and go away in the taskbar during the issue.

It doesn't seem to matter which plugins are open or being used.

Has anyone else ever had this happen? Sometimes it happens several times a day.