Cakewalk crashing randomly. Is Sonar more stable?

[Cobus Prinsloo]

My Caewalk is unstable, even though I have a fairly decent system (128 Gb RAM).

I find my latest version of CW sometimes crashes without any warning when I press Play. The timer wheel starts spinning, and then the program just closes. I cannot establish a pattern to figure out why this is happening.

Is Sonar more stable?

[Promidi]

3 hours ago, Cobus Prinsloo said:

Is Sonar more stable?

On a properly configured PC, with all updates and drivers (all, not just audio), all 64bit plugins, yes.

What have you tried so far?

I am assuming you have performed all Windows updates, updated all drivers, updated your Vdist runtimes and ditched all 32bit plugins.

[Cobus Prinsloo]

11 hours ago, Promidi said:

I am assuming you have performed all Windows updates, updated all drivers, updated your Vdist runtimes and ditched all 32bit plugins.

With regards to Windows, Yes, I'm quite sure everything is up to date. But, I do have both the 32-bit and 64-bit versions for some of my vst's installed. Is there an easy way to get rid of the 32-bit versions?

What are the Vdist runtimes you're referring to?

[Promidi]

16 minutes ago, Cobus Prinsloo said:

What are the Vdist runtimes you're referring to?

See: (Scroll down to X64)

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-au/cpp/windows/latest-supported-vc-redist?view=msvc-170

[Cobus Prinsloo]

8 hours ago, Promidi said:

See: (Scroll down to X64)

Thanks, everything on this page is about Visual Studio. When I scroll down, THIS (see attached) is the only reference to X64 I see. Is this correct?

[Promidi]

8 minutes ago, Cobus Prinsloo said:

Thanks, everything on this page is about Visual Studio. When I scroll down, THIS (see attached) is the only reference to X64 I see. Is this correct?

 

That is definitely different to the page I get when I click on the link I sent you...

Here is a direct link to the updated 2022 Vdist runtime.

https://aka.ms/vs/17/release/vc_redist.x64.exe

[sjoens]

3 minutes ago, Promidi said:

That is definitely different to the page I get

He scrolled all the way to the end of the page.  You probably meant the 1st one labeled

"Latest Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable Version"
The latest version is 14.40.33816.0

[Promidi]

14 minutes ago, sjoens said:

He scrolled all the way to the end of the page.  You probably meant the 1st one labelled

I did. 

On my system, the latest version is Vdist 2022 is 14.42.3443

[sjoens]

Mine is the same as listed on the website.  Curious how yours looks newer than the "Latest" one.

[Cobus Prinsloo]

11 hours ago, Promidi said:

Here is a direct link to the updated 2022 Vdist runtime.

https://aka.ms/vs/17/release/vc_redist.x64.exe

Thanks a lot! Forgive my ignorance - what does this update do?

[Promidi]

2 hours ago, Cobus Prinsloo said:

Thanks a lot! Forgive my ignorance - what does this update do?

Many application are written in a language called Visual Studio C++. 

Programs written in C++ need to access various subroutines to perform their various tasks. 

These subroutines are contained in what are called the runtime libraries. 

The installers for these applications pretty much always contain a version of these runtime libraries.  

However, Microsoft, from time to time update these libraries and make these updates available as separate downloads.

Now, the version of the runtimes that comes with said application will be the version that allows that application to work property.  However, sometimes other applications will install an earlier version.  Sometimes (though rarely) the runtime libraries become corrupt.  That's when you might want to reinstall the runtime libraries.

That link I posted will always have the latest version.

Cakewalk is one of those applications that, if your runtime libraries are corrupt (or even is a buggy version), will fail to start. 

Most times, just installing the runtimes over the top will be sufficient.  However, sometimes, you need to uninstall he runtimes and reinstall.  Reinstalling Cakewalk should also reinstall the runtimes.

[Cobus Prinsloo]

19 hours ago, Promidi said:

Most times, just installing the runtimes over the top will be sufficient

Thank you very much for the valuable advice.