Does Cakewalk by BandLab work with Windows 11 24H2?

[Bruce Wahler]

I recently upgraded my music PC to 24H2, and it went so well that I decide to upgrade my laptop, which runs Cakewalk.  Everything seemed fine, but Cakewalk would not init:  the splash screen would come up for about a minute, then everything would close down.  I downgraded to 23H2 Windows and everything is fine.

During the after-downgrading testing, I noticed that I wasn't running the Dec 2024 version of CWbyBL.  I am now upgraded.  Still, I'm a little reluctant to try the upgrade again.

Is anyone here running Cakewalk on Windows 11 24H2?  Is it officially supported?  How was your upgrade experience?  Any changes that need to happen?

TIA,

-Bruce

[Chaps]

I've been using 24H2 for three months and the only problem I've had, or change that I've noticed, is with the Windows File Explorer 'See More (Three Dots Menu)' when I want to change the icon view to 'List', which is my preferred way to view files. The 'See More' menu opens so high that only the options near the bottom are visible, so I have to either drag the top of the window down enough to see all the options or maximize the window. It was very annoying at first but I've gotten used to it. I've noticed no change in Cakewalk by Bandlab behavior. I'm using the latest CbB build (I check for updates every day).

My specs are a 4.6 GHz AMD Ryzen 5 5600X CPU, ASUS ROG STRIX B550-F Gaming motherboard, CORSAIR VENGEANCE LPX DDR4 RAM 64GB, System drive is a SAMSUNG 990 EVO SSD 2TB PCIe Gen 4x4 Gen 5x2 M.2 2280 NVMe Internal Solid State Drive, Cakewalk projects are stored on a Samsung MZ-V7S500B/AM 500GB 970 EVO Plus M.2 (2280) Internal Solid State Drive.

[mettelus]

Just about all issues that have this response (crash on program load) have been associated with bad Microsoft Redistributables. Please refer to this post for more information and an installer that Noel made to ensure they are updated.

[Bruce Wahler]

Thanks for the tips.  I finally got things working -- even a clean install didn't fix things -- but in a surprising way ...

I noticed that there was a popup behind the splash screen on each startup.  I couldn't see much of it, but eventually figured out it was the Wave Profiler.  So, I disabled my laptop's audio driver and started again.  This time CW worked, but with a "no audio device" message.  I went into the configuration and changed the audio mode from WSAPI/KS to WDM.  I re-enabled the audio driver and everything works.

Still not sure why a) this same configuration worked in Win11 23H2; and b) why a clean install of Cakewalk left me running in WSAPI mode in the first place.  Maybe a config file that didn't get removed when I uninstalled CW?

Anyway, things are working fine again. 😀