Cubase Appears to have corrupted my entire PC

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.

Blue Screen is usually hardware or driver related.
You might try analysing your windows crash dump with this:

Do you have an audio interface…if not which driver are you using?

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

Also It’s worth mentioning that my Steinberg Crash Dumps folder is empty and always has been

Test your RAM for errors, test your PSU,
maybe Cubase is not at fault.

I’ve done the crash test from the link you sent and it hasn’t found anything

Can you explain what this means please?

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.

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I am doing it thank you

What error messages are posted on the blue screen? Are they always the same or do they vary?

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.

So I ran it, no problems were detected the whole time and then my PC restarted. No RAM issues

I’ve Installed AIDA and opened the application. what should I do now?

The BSOD event should still be logged in your System Event Viewer. I think the details there would be quite valuable.

I will check. my PC blue screened again and i was ready to take a photo but i missed it because its just so fast

Yeah, run Event Viewer and go to the System event log. It will be there somewhere :). You’re specifically looking for the stop code and driver infos.

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Click flame icon on top and run System stability test.
If all is good then it’s software or a driver problem.