Cubase 14 keeps freezing and crashing and it is unusable

Hello

All of a sudden Cubase 14 Pro started freezing, I already rebooted several time, but nothing.
This is happening with every project I try to open. Nothing was changed since the last time I have used it.

Processor Intel(R) Core™ i7-14700K 3.40 GHz
Installed RAM 64,0 GB (63,8 GB usable)
System type 64-bit operating system, x64-based processor
OS Windows 11 Home 24H2 26100.3194
Audio driver UA Volt 1 v1.1.0

Cubase 14.0.10 64bit 2025.2.21 7.52.59.586-freezedump.dmp (2.9 MB)
Cubase 14.0.10 64bit 2025.2.21 7.59.02.967-freezedump.dmp (2.8 MB)
Cubase 14.0.10 64bit 2025.2.21 8.03.59.229-freezedump.dmp (2.8 MB)
Cubase 14.0.10 64bit 2025.2.21 8.06.59.993-freezedump.dmp (914.7 KB)
Cubase 14.0.10 64bit 2025.2.21 8.17.28.279-freezedump.dmp (2.8 MB)

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Hi,

Do I uderstand you correct, these freezes happen while opening projects?

Most of the freezes are in the old Microsoft Windows WDM MIDI Driver. Enable the WinRT driver in the Studio > Studio Setup in Cubase, to avoid this old MIDI driver, please.

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Hello

And thanks for the quick response.

They both happen after I open the project, the project hangs, or while I am opening the project, it crashes before I reach the project window/mixing console.
Everytime I have to open the task manager and manually kill the Cubase process.

After a bit of fiddling I have switch off my Volt audio interface and open the project again with the standard Steinberg ASIO drivers, this time the project opened without problem and no crashes, then I have switched on the Volt again (setting back the Volt drivers) and now it seems working without issues. Not sure what it could have happened.

I will change the driver as well as you suggested.

Thanks.