When I opened it for the first time, I was immediately surprised by how snappy and fast the project load time was for a project with 37 tracks, 16 buses and about 50 plugins.
I'm mighty impressed just out of the blocks on this one.
Cakewalk continues to deliver with more improvements. Bit by bit, step by step, slowly but surely.
 
Back to the grind stone and see what this baby can do.

I downloaded yesterday and opened some projects today.  I have to agree with Mike, very snappy here as well.
 
Thanks Bakers.

mudgel
When I opened it for the first time, I was immediately surprised by how snappy and fast the project load time was for a project with 37 tracks, 16 buses and about 50 plugins.
 

Did you update from 2017-01 Mike or had you skipped updates?

It didn't go well for me. I'm getting this opening projects-

ceemusic
It didn't go well for me. I'm getting this opening projects-

and we are looking at what here ?
(A little more detail might help explain what problems you are experiencing).

ceemusic
It didn't go well for me. I'm getting this opening projects-

 
THis is what I got also, minus the "clips" thing that tells you what automation you are looking at.  Also midi ins and outs where strange.  The solution was to pull each track down individually and then set it back to normal.  Everything looks good then.   A lot of busy work.  Re setting the mid only takes a click or two,  but I'm worried about what I did not notice.
 
Also I was recording a drummer and the recording went fine ,  but Sonar was showing me it was looping the 1st 15 measures or so.  I thought the take was going to be bad, but like I said it was OK.
 
After that session I rolled back to 2017.1
 
 

chuckebaby tried to help, so I have to say thanks for that.
 
What you are looking at is Track View.  The meters show up, but not the Track Name,

Jimbo 88

ceemusic
It didn't go well for me. I'm getting this opening projects-

 
THis is what I got also, minus the "clips" thing that tells you what automation you are looking at.  Also midi ins and outs where strange.  The solution was to pull each track down individually and then set it back to normal.  Everything looks good then.   A lot of busy work.  Re setting the mid only takes a click or two,  but I'm worried about what I did not notice.
 
Also I was recording a drummer and the recording went fine ,  but Sonar was showing me it was looping the 1st 15 measures or so.  I thought the take was going to be bad, but like I said it was OK.
 
After that session I rolled back to 2017.1
 
 

 
I thought it might have been a corrupted download so I did a few rollbacks & er's again.
Each time the rollbacks worked & appeared normally while the er's all had these gui errors.

Me too with the track view odd presentation - happens below the screen when scrolled up, the tracks that appear from the bottom look like the pics above.
 
Also a project that I'm working on now says it can't find the LP64 upon open - but I've never used it in my life.
 

2017.02 is still not showing up for me.  I updated the Command Center, went to Settings then Check Now, then right clicked Platinum, then Rollback, and the last update shown is 2016.12 - it's just not there.  No one else has had this problem?