SOLVED: Kontakt Windows Not Opening Fully - Then CbB Freezes

[Stephen Power]

This is a follow-up issue to one I have recently posted in the Kontakt area of this forum. The issue may not be with Kontakt at all, as the problem does not occur in the Standalone version - only in Cakewalk by Bandlab (latest version).
 

If I make a selection from the GUI of Kontakt (not an instrument), such as file>options or click on 'Instrument Options' or 'Group Editor', the corresponding window only partially opens, and I can't see it completely. Then when I click on it, it flashes, won't close and I have to close the Cakewalk project and re-open Cakewalk to start again.

I today, updated Kontakt and re-installed it, but it made no difference. As mentioned, the standalone version works with no issues, which makes me think it's a CbB issue.

Any suggestions are very welcome.

Edited August 19 by Stephen Power

[Stephen Power]

SOLVED. I followed the instructions in this short video and it fixed the issue. hopefully, it will be useful to others.
 

 

Edited August 19 by Stephen Power

[OutrageProductions]

You could try to play with the setting in the Cakewalk.ini file for Plugin scaling

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EnableWin10DPIAwareness=<0 or 1>

Boolean

0 (disable)

[Experimental feature] This variable enables improved high DPI rendering on Windows 10 build 1809 (October 2018) and above. When enabled, the rendering quality of text and other GDI-based primitives automatically improve when the window is displayed on a high-DPI displays such as 4K monitors (may not be noticeable unless your Windows display scaling setting is > 100%).

All Cakewalk UI is potentially affected, including menus and dialogs, but plug-in windows are created without high DPI rendering improvements to avoid UI issues.

or with the actual scaling in Windows Control Panel between 100 - 125%. <Settings><Display><Scale and layout>

It may depend on if you are using a hi-res screen (4k).

[Stephen Power]

11 minutes ago, OutrageProductions said:

You could try to play with the setting in the Cakewalk.ini file for Plugin scaling

or with the actual scaling in Windows Control Panel between 100 - 125%. <Settings><Display><Scale and layout>

It may depend on if you are using a hi-res screen (4k).

Thank you very much. No, it's not a 4K screen (1080p). I did change the scaling back to 100% as it had been around 175%. When I first tried Kontakt following that change, the window for Options was perfect, but then it went back to being squashed, but not sure why. The windows for Instrument Option etc remained squashed all the time.

Can you please advise me on where to be in in order to make the changes in your quote? Is that in Cakewalk or Windows?

[OutrageProductions]

The quote is transcribed from the CW PDF manual and refers to a scaling parameter in the [cakewalk.ini] file; you can open & edit it in notepad.

[Stephen Power]

3 hours ago, OutrageProductions said:

The quote is transcribed from the CW PDF manual and refers to a scaling parameter in the [cakewalk.ini] file; you can open & edit it in notepad.

Thanks again. I tried it, but no change. I'm not convinced I'm editing it correctly. I found the manual with the parameter, but as an alien visitor to this world, it is not in my language.