Cakewalk keeps crashing even with the latest update made today, March 6th.

[Jeremy Oakes]

On 4/13/2025 at 6:25 PM, Mauro Gaspa said:

@SirWillyDS12 Thanks

I immediately downloaded Microsoft Interrupt Affinity, started the software in administrator mode and selected, as you suggested, CPU 8 and CPU 9 for the RTX 4060 graphics card. I played the song until it ended and restarted it and after about 30 seconds the freeze occurred again.
I noticed that when the freeze is about to happen, just before, the Sonar CPU performance starts to make waves on the various cores as if it were looking for other available cores. Could this be a clue?

@Ben Staton Do you have any other ideas?

 

@Amberwolf Hi, thanks.

The drivers I downloaded and used are Nvidia WHQL. 

The problem, if it really was the Nvidia driver, how can I find the right version as you say that makes me work among the many versions available?

Make sure you do NOT install the nVidia audio driver when installing the nVidia video drivers.
 

When using the nVidia installer use the advanced options and do a complete un-install/re-install. You can then choose which options to install. Do NOT choose the HDMI audio driver.

if said driver shows up in Sonar/CbB go into device manager and disable it. Re-boot.

J

[Mauro Gaspa]

Good morning @Jeremy Oakes.
The clean installation of the nVidia drivers is one of the first things I did.
In ASIO drivers mode inside Cakewalk the HDMI nvidia audio driver is not displayed because the traditional WDM audio driver is not set. Now I tried to remove by unchecking the nVidia HDMI audio driver from device manager, making sure it no longer appears in the list.

The thing I noticed is that before the block the CPU threads indicator suddenly rises a lot compared to before when the load is very low and then goes down again. From that moment the block will occur at any moment.

I don't know what to do anymore. I also tried to contact technical support but they haven't been able to tell me anything yet. Is it possible that support doesn't know how to analyze with me and help me solve this problem?

[Astraios]

Have you checked what the Windows Task Manager shows about Sonar? Is it a crash (which is displayed as such) or is the program there without an error message?

I'm asking because I've experienced Sonar "hanging" in the past, but it wasn't reported as a crash in the Task Manager. That would definitely indicate graphics problems related to Sonar. This picture was made when Sonar hung, but there is no error reported by windows. When Sonar really crashes, you usually see an error message here as well.

Edited 18 hours ago by Astraios

[Astraios]

On 4/8/2025 at 5:43 AM, SirWillyDS12 said:

@Mauro Gaspa

So I have had this exact same type of "Crash" with Cakewalk by Bandlab... GUI locks up/ freeze up but the song will continue to play till the end... Only way to get out of it is to kill Cakewalk with task manager... I watched both of the last two videos that you up loaded and it looks like the exact same problem I have had on Windows 11 with my Nvidia video card... I have a NviDia GeForce GT 710 graphics card...

 

By doing a lot of System tweaks I was able to get my NviDia DCP latency to below 400us and I no longer have the issues with my Firewire card and the two drivers locking up Cakewalk...

 

 

Have you tried the "Show Desktop" function in the Windows taskbar (at the bottom right)? Just toggle it back and forth two or three times. That way, I was able to outsmart the Sonar hang sometimes and came back into the program without taskmanager shutdown.

Edited 13 hours ago by Astraios