Issue in Cakewalk with the Generic Low Latency Driver installed with Halion S7

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I’m working on setting up my notebook for live performance using Halion Sonic 7 within Cakewalk. The problem I’m having is when I choose the ASIO driver within the Cakewalk preferences (it only lists the one ASIO driver) it’s loading the generic low latency driver that was installed with Halion S7 and not the driver that was installed with my Tascam US-1800 interface.
If I load up Halion S7 on it’s own I can choose the US-1800 driver and everything works great but within Cakewalk I’m forced to choose WASAPI. If I choose ASIO I get problems straight away…the ASIO panel flashes and Cakewalk nearly hangs.
Google AI states there are problems with the Steinberg Generic low latency driver in Cakewalk and that the solution is to remove the generic driver from my system. I would like to do this but cannot see a way to do it. The suggestion is to remove it using the device manager under “Sound, Video and Game Controllers” but the only drivers listed there are my interface driver and the notebook’s onboard audio which I already disabled when I installed my interface.
I may be alright using the WASAPI driver but it seems to me I should be using ASIO.
I realize this sounds like a Cakewalk issue but I really just need to remove the generic driver that was installed with Halion S7.
Has anyone had any experience with this incompatibility?

EDIT: Ok…I totally missed that the driver can actually be uninstalled through Windows Programs & Features. I should have checked that right away but I’d just finished reading an article that said it couldn’t be removed separately.
I was going to just delete my topic before I had any responses but I guess I will leave it here in the event someone else has the same issue. Thank you if you got this far and were ready to respond :folded_hands:

So I removed the Steinberg Generic Low Latency ASIO Driver and I was still having a conflict in Cakewalk. Not as severe as I did with the Steinberg Generic ASIO driver that was installed with Halion Sonic 7 but my mouse’s timeout animation kept popping on every 2 seconds so something is not right. I then deleted the Steinberg Built-In ASIO driver (64 bit) and so far everything seems to be working perfectly.

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Kind of sounds like maybe some weirdness with Cakewalk, rather than HALion?

I wouldn’t be surprised, if the same issue would have occurred with any other VST plugin?

Might be useful, if you list your Cakewalk version, since there’s been so many over the decades?

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I’ve actually solved my ASIO issues. I was able to delete the Steinberg low latency and built-in ASIO drivers and I’m now just using the driver for my interface. I am using Cakewalk by Bandlab (Ver 2024.12 build 125, 64 bit).
Of course now I have new hurdles. Not big ones but when using Cakewalk 's playlist editor it leaves every song in the background as I progress through my playlist. There doesn’t appear to be a fix for it at this point but I have made some inquiries on the cakewalk forums. For the time being I’ll just have to make sure I delete each song as I go onto the next one while playing live otherwise it starts to use up a lot of memory…especially with vst plugins.