Earlier had a regular crash asking to save my work before closing. Now I just had a whiteout. Everything disappeared and I have to reboot as task manager won’t close.
So unproductive and unstable.
If you are posting just to vent, that’s fine (we’ve all been there).
But if you want help troubleshooting your problem, you’ll need to provide some details like OS & system specs, what are the circumstances when this happens, etc.
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In the 1st case today, I was in the drum editor and I was moving a hihat to another lane as there were 2 lanes in different sections. Locked up and had to save.
Next time I was just getting ready to do something with the TD50x drum module and turned around and went back to the C15 window and it was a whiteout. I restarted the computer as C-A-D didn’t work and it restarted and Cubase was still open with the whiteout. I turned the computer off completely and restarted and was able to work again and get something done. then I wanted to do a punch in record.
Now, I wasn’t seeing punch in record as familiar, so decided to look in the manual. In was incredible slow loading. I watched the blue graph and it was somewhere beyond 15 minutes, more than half way, and then I got this instead, after all that waiting..
So I couldn’t do punch in and just tried to record with 2 measures to count in and as soon as I press record it starts recording, despite the settings.
Just checking in here. I see you are on 23h2, so I can confirm it’s not the new MIDI stack causing any problems, because we only go out to supported versions of Windows: 24h2, 25h2, and 26h1
Very few things can make everything in Windows hang like that, but video/GPU drivers are one of them. You may want to look for an update there.
Pete
Microsoft
What are 23h2, 24h2, etc?
These are Windows versions specified as built versions.
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Windows 11 version names that correspond to the numbers that show up in Settings > System > About for retail versions (not Insider in this table) of Windows 11.
Pete
Microsoft
One specific thing to check, if you are using an NVIDIA graphic card make sure you are using its Studio driver and not the Gaming driver.
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today,updated all the drivers in Windows update that were suggested there. How do I check whether Studio or gaming?
Well that’s only for NVIDIA cards. There should be an NVIDIA App in your start menu that can change the settings.
Today, C15 closed suddenly and earlier today and now, as I was just reverting a project to save, got this again. Becoming daily ritual.
This one is a lockup and have to shut down the computer and restart. Actually allowed me to use C-A-D this time and restart Cubase.
it’s telling you that a dump has been produced. Why don’t you post one or more of the dumps here and we can have a look.
Cubase 15.0.10 64bit2026.3.24 12.58.40.736.dmp (1.8 MB)
Cubase 15.0.10 64bit2026.3.23 13.06.28.710.dmp (2.1 MB)
Cubase 15.0.10 64bit2026.3.23 22.59.29.300.dmp (2.7 MB)
Cubase 15.0.10 64bit2026.3.24 6.46.16.805.dmp (1.9 MB)
Cubase 15.0.10 64bit2026.3.24 12.28.01.879.dmp (2.3 MB)
Was gaming and am downloading studio driver. thanks for the info. I had updated to this Dell computer to handle my videos. Will that negatively affect them?
Shouldn’t. Basically if you are using the computer to play games, then use the gaming driver. But if you are using it to create music, videos. graphics etc. then use the Studio driver.
I think the NVIDIA app lets you switch drivers on the fly. But I’m not sure about that as I don’t have any games on my DAW so no need to do that.
Thanks. Two of the dumps are non-specific access violations in Cubase. The rest are all failures in Spectralayers 7.