I have spent several hours factory resetting my PC twice now because Cubase seems to be destroying it. Every time I launch cubase I get the blue screen of death and it crashes when the “loading media bay” screen happens. I have like 4 plugins from spitfire and they’re BBCSO and spitfire originals (completely safe and trusted plugins that surely aren’t causing this). I’m trying to use Cubase 14 pro for my Uni work and now I’m falling behind because the software just doesn’t work. After deleting everything off my PC and reinstalling it, I got 2 days of peace. No crashes or anything. Then suddenly bam, everything crashes and it’s complete mayhem
My PC is running windows 11. Graphics card is a 3060, 2 terabytes of storage, 32gigabytes of RAM and a Ryzen 9 5900x processor. Please help because there has been nothing more frustrating.
I do not use an audio interface. I’m using a plug and play Novation launch key MK4 61 and yes I installed Novation components and the Cubase integration
It means you should download some sort of memory tester, and let it run for a few hours. Bad RAM can cause all kinds of errors you may not realize. All it takes is one bad spot to corrupt the data that gets written to it, and as soon as the CPU needs that data BOOM, there’s your blue screen.
Some of them only appear for a second before the machine restarts. They all just say something about windows struggling to run or something. I’ll send a screenshot whenever it next happens as I’m running diagnostics atm
OK. They aren’t always helpful but they could be. If you get the same message evey time, it usually means the failure of a specific hardware component and / or driver. If the message varies every time, then it could, as suggested above, be random failures due to a memory fault (or even a failing processor).
To add to Monotremata’s advice: after testing RAM also run a stress test for a few minutes and see if your PC is stable. There are several utilities that can do this, like Aida64 etc.
