Hi @rickpaul, there is nothing special behind the Cubase freezedumps in the sense that it is a very simple mechanism. Whenever Cubase’s main thread is stuck or blocked for a certain amount of time then a freezedump gets automatically created. I don’t even know the time that is waited, but you see, it is a dead simple and stupid approach: Cubase appearing to be frozen for some time => create a dump file. On the other hand, we have to be careful here and not talk about crashing in this instance, because Cubase is still running, it’s just not responding anymore (or for a very long time), but strictly technically spoken, it is up and running.
Now, the Dorico diagnostics don’t show any freeze dumps, so I would like you to create a few manually while starting up Dorico. Therefore please download the free utility Process Explorer. Start it up and look in the list for a process called VSTAudioEngine. When you highlight that process and do a right click on it, from a pop-up menu you can do ‘Create > Create Mini Dump’. While Dorico is starting up, please create several of these mini dumps, zip them up and provide them to me. I want to see where it is hanging and if it is always the same location. Than you very much .