Since I upgraded to Cubase 8.5 if I click exit or on the X in the corner Cubase will not shut down properly. The menubar stays on screen and Cubase goes into “not responding” in the task manager.
I have a new PC with and old RME9652 soundcard in it. The rest of the machine is top off the line(to play Battlefront and other cool stufff).
Yeah I recognise this too. But it seems to be normal. If you work in fullscreen editwindow one only can see one X in the upper right corner (“instead” of two). If you now want to close the edit windows and the project as well you can still see the bar, thats right.
It seems that the have removed the grey background only->so only menu bar left. You have to “double close”. First the project 2nd the menu bar. Thats all. If you dont do it that way windows stuck in shutting down windows->aks for force to shutdown.
I hope I got you right and this helps
Crashes may be from Cubase but quite often plugins are the real culprits.
I’ve had similar situation, almost all the time when closing a mid-to-large project, Cubase crashed. Those settings that are only saved at exit were lost. (I hope those settings are saved earlier than this - but that’s another story)
Finally I spent a day, and spotted a couple of plugings that had been causing memory corruption. Now I’m happily 99.9% exit-crash free.
Project closure or Cubase exit, that’s the timing bunch of the plugins rush to clear the resources, memory allocations, leftover critical sections, etc. etc. so it’s actually one of the most fragile moments. It’s time consuming (guess how many lines of the code have to run ?).
And just one coding mistake could overwrite the memory area it shouldn’t write to, which very well ruins the entire Cubase process.
(to make things worse, even though we could catch the moment of a crash, that’s likely an innocent victim, when the cause was memory corruption).
What I would do would be, to avoid the “fragile” plugins. Try reducing the number of plugins. Try to unload some suspicious plugins. Use jbridge to host plugins in the other process space than Cubase, so they only shoot themselves in their foot.
I had the same problem, and for me the cause was certain 32-bit plugins. Some of them for example were Slate digital (can’t remember exactly which ones), and trigger.dll being in the wrong folder.
When using only 62-bit plugins, the problem dissapeared for me. Hope it helps!
Ever since I updated my Nvidia Geforce GTX970 Graphic card driver to one of the most recent drivers v373.06 I have noticed consistent crash on exits with cubase.
I seem to able to close the project window fine everytime without any issue, but when I close the cubase main menu bar is when I get crashes.
The error can occur with a blank empty project, saved or not. Also occurs when not using any 32bit VSTs / Plugins.
I can’t remember this issue happening with previous graphic card driver which was a year or so old. I wish upgrading didn’t break stuff lol. I hope this issue gets investigated & prioritised.
