Hi there,
today I tried to install Cubase SX 3 on my new notebook with Win 7 64 bit professional. I didn’t get far - after clicking two or three buttons I got the message “You have some processes running on your Computer that block the installation” or sth. similar. It was recommended to reboot the system, which brought no success. I permanently deactivated WLAN, shut down the firewall and the antivirus programs and rebooted once more, again without success.
To my surprise, Steinberg Hypersonic 2 (which I bought 2005 with SX 3 and GA 2 in a bundle), could be installed without any problem and works flawlessly now, both standalone and as a VSTi. However, I had to skip the “autorun.exe” in the installation process (it aborted the installation the same way it did with SX 3 and GA 2) and HS only installed after I had clicked on the install.exe on the disk manually. Unfortunately this trick didn’t help with SX 3 and GA 2.
Any ideas what’s wrong here?
Thanks!
…oh, and a merry Christmas to everyone in the big Cubase universe!
I had the same problem with SX3 on Win7 64bit.
Following worked for me:
The problem was, that I had the latest Wavelab7 and the latest eLCC installed.
The eLCC blocked the installer in the way it is described in the original post.
Uninstall any eLCC or LCC software → Run installer from install disc in WinXP compatibility mode (also additional administrator privileges are required), also be sure your dongle is not plugged in → if SX3 is installed (which worked for me now), install the latest SX3 update → Uninstall eLCC (or old LCC) again, plug in your dongle and install the latest eLCC from Steinberg.
Good luck.
P.S.: If all went OK, run SX3 and modify the VST settings Expert options → uncheck Multi processor mode. otherwise CPU usage flickers like crazy.