Sonar5 - SONARPDR.EXE has encountered a problem and needs to close.

I had a same problem. This happened when I have installed some VST plugins. Simply uninstall all VST's and try run S5. Than you must find what VST is problem and use DXi, if you can.

Thanks very much for replies.

I was just now thinking along those same lines, so I tried running the the VST Adapter Config wizard. I received THIS message:

This application has failed to start because DspfxDw.dll was not found. Re-installing the application may fix the problem.


I did try the DspFX demo last year, it expired long ago so I just now de-installed it. The VST Adaper config wizard now runs clean (I selected both options to rescan).

Sonar5 now launches with the default project only briefly visible, then the same crash message.

I'll look at DXi's next, it will be a few hours until I can get back to this. Stay tuned, and thanks.

---appyface

I had the same problem then after I uninstalled and reinstalled Sonar would launch but any (including Cakewalk and Sonalkis) plugs would not be availibe and S5 would crash.

I removed all my VST plugs and reinstalled and everything seems fine. This was right when S5 came out.

@Raymond
Interesting info for your situation.
Since I have never gotten S5 open yet, if the problem is a bug with "Show Track Layers", it is in the default blank project that comes with S5. But I'm not sure that's connected to my issue.

Much simpler solution..... call Cakewalk Tech Support. that's what it's there for.

I was having this problem as well. I used SysInternals Registry Monitor and I noticed that HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cakewalk Music Software\SONAR Producer\5.0\ShowQuickStart was the last value accessed in the registry before it started collecting crash report data. I toggled it off and, sure enough, there was no crash. I then manually tried to bring up the Quick Start dialog from the Help menu, and boom: crash. So the problem is the Quick Start dialog, and you can get around it by setting HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cakewalk Music Software\SONAR Producer\5.0\ShowQuickStart to 0. This is only a workaround; I'd like to see a real fix.

Here is some more technical information to possibly help Cakewalk address this issue. The stack trace when the crash occurs is sonarpdr.exe:005dda60() -> sonarpdr.exe:0091b817() -> MFC71u.dll!CDialog::DoModal() Line 519 + 0x12 -> MFC71u.dll!CWnd::CreateDlgIndirect(...) Line 314 -> user32.dll!_CreateDialogIndirectParamW@20() + 0x1b -> user32.dll!_CreateDialogIndirectParamAorW@24() + 0x33 -> user32.dll!_CreateDialogIndirectParamAorW@24() + 0x33 -> user32.dll!_InternalCreateDialog@28() + 0x4d2 -> 011aae5c() -> user32.dll!_NtUserValidateHandleSecure@8() + 0xc -> ntdll.dll!_KiUserCallbackDispatcher@12() + 0x13 -> user32.dll!_UserCallWinProcCheckWow@32() + 0xcb -> user32.dll!_UserCallWinProcCheckWow@32() + 0xfb -> user32.dll!_UserCallWinProcCheckWow@32() + 0xfb -> 0012f1b4() -> user32.dll!_InternalCallWinProc@20() + 0x28 -> user32.dll!_UserCallWinProcCheckWow@32() + 0xfb -> uxtheme.dll!ThemePostWndProc() + 0x18 -> SONARPDR.EXE!009265c4()

Here are the CPU register values:
EAX = 00DA5BC8 EBX = 0012F8E0 ECX = 0034A2A9
EDX = FFFFFFFF ESI = 00000000 EDI = 00000000
EIP = 009265C4 ESP = 0012F094 EBP = 0012F2C4
EFL = 00200216

Finally, here's the disassembly:
009265BE mov esi,dword ptr [eax+88h]
009265C4 mov eax,dword ptr [esi+4] -- CRASH OCCURS HERE (note that esi = 0)
009265C7 cmp eax,edi
009265C9 jle 0092666D
009265CF lea eax,[ebp-218h]
009265D5 push eax
009265D6 push 104h

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Some updated info.

I just installed S5PE, plus patched it with 5.0.1 patch, on XP PRO SP2 machine that has not previously had any version of Sonar installed.

S5PE won't come all the way up on this machine, either. Crashes with the same error message as the other machine, same offset address in SONARPDR.EXE.

After copying a valid S5 project to this new machine, I tried double-clicking the project's .cwp file from Windows Explorer. S5 launches fully! I was able to visit options and select midi in/out, set project and global options, etc. Still won't launch without a filename to open, though.

1. I don't have any VST's (didn't even install PerfectSpace from Sonar DVD), but ran the VST Adapter anyway, no VST's found.
2. I unchecked option run VST adapter at startup.
3. I unchecked option to use normal template at startup. I didn't install any templates, so Normal.cwt is the only one in the sonar directory anyway.


What happens differently, when S5 launches without a file to open?

At least I found out I can use S5 while trying to solve this problem.

Still open to ideas to solve this one, thanks,

---appyface