Disappearing VSTi's in saved projects

Cubase
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Hi, I’m having problems whenever I open saved projects with C6.03 on W7. I’ve re-installed everything from scratch, run e-licenser maintenance & trashed my preferences & even tried rolling back to 6.02 but all to no avail.

If I open a new project, everything appears to work fine. However, when I try to work on recent projects, I can’t add VSTi instruments. I some instances I can add odd ones, Prologue or Mystic, but in most I can’t add any? I can’t open Halion SE in any saved projects, it either simply doesn’t appear or crashes Cubase, but it opens in fine in a new project. Similarly clicking on any of the ‘help’ buttons crashes everything.

I’m not working on any projects which pre-date C6 (apart from some audio files which I’ve imported as WAV’s), so it’s nothing to do with previous versions. When I updated to 6.02 I imported every audio file & copied the insert/mixers settings manually & resaved the projects to stop the constant crashes. I can’t face doing this again & I shouldn’t have to. The only non-steinberg product I’m using is iZotope4 (registered full version) & I’m using a Novation Nio with the latest W7 drivers.

I’m a longtime Cubase devotee, but I’m seriously beginning to think any program which you spend more time fixing than using simply isn’t fit for purpose.

DM

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If you are running 32bit version of Cubase it sounds like a “out of memory” issue. Press Ctrl-Alt-Del and start Task Manager, look for Cubase6.exe, how much memory does it take?

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Hi, thanks for the reply. I think you might be on to something here.

Yes I’m running 32 bit W7, the task manager says cubase is using 1,487,396k & the CPU usage meter says I’m using 2382 of 3326 Mb of RAM. However I’ve only got 9 Audio tracks & one group track in the project! Yet I’ve got other projects using 40 audio & 10 midi tracks with multiple instances of isotope, nebula & reverence etc running comfortably & using far less!

It’s a Carillon PC with Intel quad core Q8300 @ 2.5 GHz and 4 Gb RAM installed. Given that I only use the odd VSTi mostly just for synth pads on most tracks, I don’t think I’m asking much of it. An empty 6.0.3 project uses about 100,000k. I’m at a loss to think how to discover what could be hogging all the RAM in such a simple project.