Cubase 13 pro making my work life a living nightmare

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Hello. My apologies for the late response; I’ve been stuck at work.

So I’ve applied all the techniques you guys recommended. Be checking step by step on which plugins might be cause the instability but the tricky part is it didn’t reveal anything. I’ve had instances where I’ve opened a heavy project with over 30 plugins and 100 tracks and Cubase ran stable for 15 minutes before glitching again.

Also the UAD spark plugins do constantly ping home cause the minute I disconnect the internet they stop working. Also the constant pinging from these plugins also cause issue in Cubase.

Just now Im working on a project consisting of 49-52 tracks. All the tracks are frozen and the only plugin load is on the 6 group channels [cause there ain’t no way to freeze them]. My group channel contains around 10 plugins atm and asio keeps glitching making the project almost non-playable. If I reopen the same project it might run stable for 10 mins and then start glitching again. Just to highlight I’m using the following plugins on the groups

SSL’s native EQ.Saturation and Bus compressors
UAD compressors
Virtual Tape Machine
Ozone tonal balance
VBC MU

P.S: I have updated to Cubase 13.5 but same problem

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If you literally add nothing during the 10 minutes and it then starts to glitch I would think maybe it’s the computer. Even though the test you ran said it was fine you only ran it for one minute right?

Could it be that your CPU is overheating? Like I wrote earlier; in your screenshot the CPU speed is insanely low and if you took that screenshot during playback of your project and the spike happened right when you took it then I would think maybe it’s overheating.

If you live in an area where things get dusty then take the cover off the computer and inspect the fans. Clean it all out. I actually managed a server once and it had problems. When I looked at the cooling system it seemed fine at first but it was because what looked like a flat-ish surface on the heatsink was actually a complete layer of dust preventing air from flowing into it, meaning the CPUs were overheating. Cleaning that out made the thing run great again.

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Have you tried to work with another DAW on the same computer?

If so, what are the results? Do you still have the same issues?