Cubase highjacks the soundcard HELP PLEASE

Cubase
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HI
Im finding in the last few days if play any audio using Foobar or windows media player for eg…, its all
fine, but as soon as I open Cubase it highjacks the sound card and cuts
off the other players. Even if I close down Cubase the sound card still
wont play with the other players…

I have ticked the box to release soundcard when in the background in
Cubase/soundcard options,.

If I reboot Windows 10, it seems to be fine for a while then it reverts to the above

Does anyone know why this happens with Cubase, and what I can do to fix this. ?
Many thanks

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Could anyone from Steinberg please offer some advice on this issue???
could it be that there has been a change in soundcard management with 9.5.41

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i have it set in studio configuration; VST System; release ASIO controller when in background “unchecked”
and i can hear simultaneous sound sources on the PC & cubase,
if that helps…

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Had this same problem with Behringer UMC soundcard. The problem went away when I changed the Preferred ASIO Buffer Size back to default (512 samples). I had changed it to 256.

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Thank you! Even 5 years later this helped me sorting out the problem :slight_smile:

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We should try to step away from the somewhat ancient “release driver in background” solution towards this:

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Many thanks for this