projects work then suddenly won't load?

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I don’t like to rant by why does this always happen to me, I’m quite happily working on a project I save it, then when I come back to it all of a sudden the project will crash on loading. it reports a certain plugin problem that has never given me any issues before. in this current case a synth that has been on an instrument track for days untouched, no extra plugins loaded on it, no updates. just all of a sudden I can not load the project anymore unless I remove the vst synth.

does anyone else get this random problem?
I did notice when I last worked on the track I was getting some high cpu usage, trouble is cubase for some reason can not tell me what track/channel or plugin is causing a cpu usage. cubase can do some extraordinary things but for some reason can’t show you some as simple as CPU usage!

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Hi,

Is it any specific VSTi (always the same)?

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Hi Martin
last time it was a effect plugin, this time a synth plugin, projects works Fien for hours then

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Hi,

Sometimes it helps to remove the plug-in from the folder, so Cubase doesn’t load it. Then open the project, save it with the missing plug-in. Then put the plug-in back to the folder, start Cubase and load the project again.

I would like to investigate more on this, because this happens time to time to some users. But I haven’t met it so far.

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Hey keltech,

I recently had the same issue and it was due to one of the nodes in a synth slot becoming corrupted causing the project size to eventually balloon up to a size that’s too large to load based on whatever 32 bit limitations Cubase has. You could look at the steps I used to debug and fix that problem:

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Just an FYI - it’s 2024, and Cubase 12 still can’t load a big project on the first try!

At this point, it’s basically a rule: Cubase 12 refuses to open my project the first time, and I have to launch the exact same project again just to get it to load. What kind of ridiculous nonsense is this? Hire competent testers! Or at least set up a proper bug-reporting system for users!

As far as I know, this will never be fixed in older versions, so I’m basically forced to pay $50 for bug fixes and a so-called “new design” I never even asked for - just to get the software to function properly. What a joke.