Can somebody tell me why??....(annoyed)

FWIW,

If it were me I find the source of the crashes.
That seems far more important to me.

For me SONAR crashes once about every 1000 hours and I attribute it to the fact that I hardly ever shut down my DAW. But, when SONAR does crash I simply open the Task Manager and if SONARPDR.exe is running I manually kill it. I'm up in less than a minute.

I *never* blame SONAR for a crash out of the gate. I *always* assume it environmental first.

The crash could be anything, any number of reasons, could be using NI Komplete, or something In house like Dimension Pro, crash report is different every time but what remains constant is that I cant manually kill the Sonar process, it just stays there while it dumps for 20 mins then I can restart Sonar. Even a reboot will take 20 mins while Windows tries to kill Sonar itself. Its incredibly frustrating and has been going on ever since I bought X1 (never happened in Sonar 8.x)

Michael Five


I'd think it's either what Craig said or dumping/error reporting. Run task manager and if you see a process called dumprep, kill it.

Blogman


Next time it hangs try this: Instead of re-booting, LOG OFF, then log right back on. Sonar should start back then. Since X1, We've all had to figure out the fastest way to re-boot... stability is NOT X1's forte. 8.53 is still MUCH MUCH more solid and reliable.... (AND you can Still Fastbounce timecode based plugins in 8.53) Come on Bakers, you burnt the last Cake. Where's our much NEEDED X1 Exp E.

I have tried having no MIDI plugged in as have read about this work around or cause but my Delta 1010 has only one midi controller keyboard plugged in which most of the time is never switched on....

stevec


Mostly ASIO here, with an occasional WDM just to test the waters.   But TBH I haven't had a "hung" crash over the last two months with a Focusrite 18i6.  The only real issue I've had is when I use it's Mix Control software to tweak output settings while SONAR is still open - that's a hard driver lock-up that requires I unplug and replug the interface's AC.   I use the Scarlett for both audio and MIDI.
 
Markyzno, have you tried unplugging all MIDI devices when the SONAR.exe hangs?   I've definitely never had a hang like that since moving to Win7 about a year ago, but may have a few times over the years when using WinXP.  I think.  I recall reading other users here that were able to get around the long hang time by unplugging their MIDI devices, and I think I may have as well.   And on that WinXP system I was using a Roland VM3100, which coicidentally uses MAudio drivers.