Cubase 10.5.20 crashes when closing - mac

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Hey there, just a report, if that’s useful to you.

I saw others having a fair amount of problems closing cubase, and tried many things myself.
I’m on Mac. 10.14.16, Mac Pro 2013 (trash can), 128 GB of ram. Video card is the basic option.
I read same old posts, on Cubase 8 forum, regarding graphic acceleration: I deactivated it for Cubase Pro from the terminal.

That didn’t solve it for me, but very interestingly made my system so much more snappier, plugins open instantly.
I had read some literature on this regard on FabFilter’s website, so I gave it a try. It seems to work very well.

Dumb question: what does graphic acceleration do for Cubase? I don’t see any visual change after deactivating it.

As it appears for many other users, Cubase hangs/crashes while closing, only after having used the software for a while.

Anyway, a couple days ago FabFilter released a new update for many plugins. In my case the crashes seemed to be caused by the EQ (q3).
After installing this last update it seems I don’t get crashes while closing anymore. I’ll work again intensely on Cubase from Monday. Hopefully this update solved it.

And hopefully this can be helpful to other in the same situation. :slight_smile:

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Hi,

Could you attach a *.crash file, please?
Mac: macOS Console utility > User Reports folder (or ~user/Library/Logs/Diagnostic Reports).

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Sure.:slight_smile:
What do you see? Is it the FabFilter proQ3 or something else?

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Hi,

This is clearly Fabfilter:

Thread 0 Crashed:: Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread
0   com.fabfilter.Pro-Q.Vst3.3    	0x0000000117177ef8 0x117140000 + 229112
1   com.fabfilter.Pro-Q.Vst3.3    	0x0000000117229882 0x117140000 + 956546
2   com.fabfilter.Pro-Q.Vst3.3    	0x0000000117201afb 0x117140000 + 793339
3   com.fabfilter.Pro-Q.Vst3.3    	0x0000000117200c1c 0x117140000 + 789532
4   com.fabfilter.Pro-Q.Vst3.3    	0x0000000117283deb 0x117140000 + 1326571
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Thank you very much Martin!
They released an update a couple days ago, I’ve installed it after that crash. Today I’ve worked on it all day and Cubase quits very fast, even after hours of work.

Beside the line “Thread 0 crashed” (which I’ve just learnt, thanks!) are there other clues you look for while reading the crash file?
Just curios, so I can try to understand myself

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Hi,

It’s not always Thread 0, where does it crash. Sometimes, it could be other thread. Here you can always find the thread, where does it crash:

Crashed Thread:        0  Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread
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Awesome! Thanks!