Good afternoon,
As of today, when I start Dorico the software won’t initiate the audio engine. I can’t determine what is causing this, when I wrote in the software yesterday everything seemed to work. Any suggestions? I’ve tried Dorico 5 and Dorico 4. A diagnostic report is attached.
Dorico Diagnostics.zip (657.1 KB)
Hi @nathant.clark33 , could you be more precise of what is happening or does not work? Because looking at your log files the audio engine seems to be working fine as far as I can tell. So please be more specific and precise of what is happening on your machine. Thanks
Good morning,
When I try to open an existing notation file, or create a new one, in either Dorico 4 or Dorico 5 the software gets stuck on this screen.
After about 60 seconds I then see this screen.
Hitting terminate generates the diagnostic zip file I sent you yesterday. Hitting continue to wait does nothing. The last screen I see before the process restarts is this one.
I used Dorico 4 for a year without any issues. When I upgraded to 5 and installed everything the audio engine and playback were buggy. After reinstalling everything I went back to using 4 without issue until yesterday to complete some quick projects for school. Now neither version is working properly.
Follow up: It was a zombied VSTAudioEngine process which prevented startup of Dorico.
So Zombies… you can cut off the head, or rebooting also works right? Better than a machete.
I had this issue today, and it persisted AFTER rebooting. (Dorico uploaded the dump FWIW). I’m skeptical that this has anything to do with anything, but factually I’d been testing a Display port to HDMI adapter that I believe is broken (It definitely is). It’s not my primary display, and I’d left the dongle hanging. I tried starting Dorico and got stuck waiting for the audio engine. I took the dongle off; happiness all around. 
Yes, zombies every where, they are among us, you talk to someone who knows it 
