Sonar Platinum Freezing Troubles

Started my Platinum subscription on Hopkinton, and I was able to install and run the program successfully, with no issues.   Life was good.   Since Ipswich, and now with Jamaica Plain, I've been experiencing constant random freezes while working.  I've read a bunch of threads here on the forum, and tried a bunch of things, but so far, I have not resolved the problem.  I would appreciate any help.
 
The problem?  Sonar freezing, and getting stuck with the spinning win 10 mouse icon, which requires a complete re-boot.  Usually occurs when I mouse click somewhere on the screen.  I've waited up to 20 minutes for Sonar to respond, but once it goes, only a complete re-boot will get it back.
 
The system?  19" I7 Laptop with 16GB memory and 2 1TB Hybrid Drives.  Roland Quad Capture Interface.  All with the latest drivers, firmware and updates.  All CCC updates installed.  Using a second 24" monitor via the laptops HDMI port.  I usually drag Sonar to the larger second monitor, and keep the console view open on the laptop screen.
 
The song?  Only has three tracks so far.  Midi Drum (Geist), Midi Bass (Sylenth) and Midi Keyboard (Mellotoon).  I've avoided adding any plugins a part of my troubleshooting.  Last night, I thought I found the problem by deleting the AUD.ini (suggestion from most threads) and a VST reset/scan, and I was able to work for about an hour (Usually the freeze happens in 10-15 minutes), but eventually Sonar froze.
 
Gonna try my last resort tonight.  Uninstalling and re-installing Sonar.   If that doesn't help, I'm out of ideas.
 

No, I haven't tried that yet.  Maybe I'll try that before uninstalling tonight.  Thanks.

I have this exact issue myself which I explained later on in this thread...
http://forum.cakewalk.com...problems-m3303385.aspx
 
Best roll back.
 
Couple of Q's.. In your project do you have drum maps. Do you also have multiple outputs from softsynths to audio tracks? My experience was once I deleted the drum maps it stabilized but then  the first CPU core got overloaded (more detail in the link above).

Ta.

I forgot to say my last post points to a confirmed bug in JP.

Ok thanks for confirming about no drum maps. That makes me (hopefully) conclude the next regression release will be fine. Thanks.

For what it's worth, my Hopkinton (W7 64) , which had worked fine for a couple months, suddenly started going straight to hell last week; I renamed aud.ini and since then have had no problems at all.  

I recently replaced my old graphic card with an nVidia GeForce 610 graphics card and started getting the random freezes you describe. The standard installation comes with a bunch of software that is totally unnecessary for my purposes; one of the programs being an HD Audio driver.
 
To stop the freezes I had to do a few things:
1) uninstall ALL NVidia software
2) start Windows in SAFE Mode
3) run the NVidia installer from Safe Mode as Administrator - select "clean" and "custom" install and only install the video driver.
4) reboot in Normal mode
5) turn off HD audio from the NVidia control center
6) From Windows Device Manager disable the HD audio built in to the mother board  
7) Reboot
 
I haven't had a random freeze in a couple of weeks - prior to this, I couldn't go for more than 10 minutes without one.
 
Even if you don't have an NVidia card, shutting off all HD audio except for your recording sound device on your DAW computer is recommended.
 
Hope this helps.
 
Unfortunately, I still haven't found a cure for the Sonar Hang on start up - a royal PITA.

Doktor Avalanche
 
However it's unlikely to just cause just Sonar to freeze if there is a problem, rather it freezes windows itself and you need to perform a hard reset of your PC.

Yes, the symptoms on my machine were variable. SONAR typically hung first followed by all sorts of nasties. A reboot was always required.