Ever since I’ve used CB 14 Pro my monitor has been blanking out and coming back on. My main windows 11 computer for all my projects has 64 gigs ram 13 TB drive and a very very fast 13 generation CPU
I am connected to my Intel graphic that is installed on the motherboard. My projects have about 16 tracks a few audio But mainly MIDI. This is never happened in previous versions of CB. One final note, this does not happen with any other programs used on that computer
DisplayPort by chance? I’ve seen this at work now and then and have no explanation for it. Best I could come up with for a customer was something I found awhile back on Microsoft’s own forums, is there is some issue with Windows and DP that occasionally rears its head as this blacking out.
Used to happen to a few of us at the ViewSonic offices (go figure of all places). It turned out it was the dock/port combo I was using. The Thinkpad’s we had (T490s) have two TB ports. One specifically has an icon for power delivery on it. If this port was the one connected to the dock, while my laptop was plugged in with its own PSU, I got the blackouts. Usually right in the middle of a call when I needed to add notes to something too.
Moved it to the second TB port, problem solved. I never tried it letting the dock power the laptop but I imagine in that case maybe it would have worked fine? Even our own IT folks couldn’t figure it out lol.
Similar event happened with my system and 32" 4k monitor.
For what its worth, here’s a test: turn your monitor brightness down 30% or more from where it’s already set and run CB. If monitor stays on, there may be an issue with the monitor’s power supply.
I know this may sound odd, but when the monitor does it’s wonkiness, are you getting up or sitting down on a gas-cylinder chair?
There is a rare, but not impossible situation covered by a university paper showing that some gas-cylinder chairs when expanding or compressing can induce a large voltage that can interrupt monitors. I’m having touble finding the paper, but… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-V_Z3bD_PA
I once had a mouse problem - it seemed to have a mind of it’s own. I discovered that I had somehow dropped a paperclip on the drawing tablet I was using at the time. Mouse problem disappeared with the paperclip.
I’m using Intel graphics simply because Cubase won’t play videos otherwise. But it’s not always Cubase that requires a bit more muscle in the GPU region, some plugins do also. MusicLab guitar guis used to be a problem for me, sometimes causing Cubase to hang or crash. GPU upgrade solved that problem.
I know it sounds crazy, but it is an actual phenomenon. It took my former workplace about 1 year to finally do research on it. We had a single Herman Miller chair that was causing this issue.
I’ve had a Nvidia GTX 1050 TI running on my AMD Win11 PC for two years, and everything is rock solid. Again, it is well documented across the forum, but just install the studio driver, NOT the full Geforce suite if you decide to go down the Nvidia route.
If you have a choice of Interface, ie. HDMI or display port etc, it could well be worth just trying the one you’re not using now. Not saying will solve, but new cable is cheaper than new gfx card.
I had problems running surface laptop via docking station to external monitor. Turned out to be the wrong kind of USB-C to HDMI cable…this also impacted maximum refresh rate and resolution