Allowing users to disable certain bundles?

Cubase
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This is a simple idea from PreSonus Studio One: If someone doesn’t want certain functionalities shipped with the software, he could just simply disable the related bundle(s).

Now Cubase 9.0.30 finally shipped with a new video engine, but it causes trouble to some users (probably due to its lack of maturity).

Personally I think it will be helpful if developers could make bundles be able to get disabled / enabled in Cubase. If this became true, users could simply disable the video bundles to bypass all crashes caused by video engine.

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Some of these can already be disabled in Devices > Plug-in Information.

The ones that you can’t, you can disable with a DIY approach. In the Components folder, rename the unwanted service’s extension to .dll.bak and it will not be loaded. I did this for the Steinberg news hub. (hubservice.dll), but you can also do that for the video engine: videoengine.dll

3

Disabling the video function… Sounds like a good idea to me. :wink:

Regards :sunglasses:

4

To disable the video engine: Press Windows+X, open Command Prompt (Admin). Copy/paste:

ren "%ProgramFiles%\Steinberg\Cubase 9"\Components\videoengine.dll videoengine.dll.bak

To restore the video engine: copy/paste:

ren "%ProgramFiles%\Steinberg\Cubase 9"\Components\videoengine.dll.bak videoengine.dll
5

Thanks, I hope this helps the OP… but, as explained in my feature request I would rather Steinberg do the programing. :wink:

Regards :sunglasses:

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I think that’s a pretty passive way to use software. But sure it would be nice to have it all selectable in the GUI.