Halion 7 Freezes when Loading Axe Machina Patch

Also happens in Halion Sonic. Other Absolute 7 patches downloaded in the same day & session run fine. I have tried reinstalling & moving using Library Manager from my D: drive to C: drive.

Regardless of the size of the preset, Halion 7 crashes at the same point of ~95%.

Attached is a video of me loading a patch. All other patches crash at this same point, requiring task manager to end the instance.

I had been asked to find Halion 7’s crash dumps, but was unable to find them in documents/steinberg/crash dumps as google recommended, only showing Cubase dumps.

This freeze also freezes Cubase, requiring task manager to quit instance.

It does not seem to be a hardware issue, as my pc still runs nominally throughout the crash. My specs are as follows.

CPU

    Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4590 CPU @ 3.30GHz

Memory

    32 GB DDR3
C:

    Samsung SSD 850 EVO 250GB

GPU

    NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970
 

I have the same same exact problem. loading bar goes really quick untill about 90 to 95%, been stuck frozen approximatly 1hr with Halion7/Sonic app not responding untill I forced quit the entire app. I tried reinstalling, moving it to internal ssd and external drives, same problematic result. Im using Absolute7 and Mac Studio.