I downloaded a rather nice patch from Patchstorage (seven sisters | Patchstorage) because I had heard about the Hallucigenia, by XTRTN and wanted to find an example patch to play with. I listened to it for a bit and then everything just locked up and I had to do a hard reset (push the button and wait 5 or so seconds). No Ctrl/Alt/Delete option or anything. The first time it came back like a normal restart. When I went to restart Rack I got this message:
And I pressed ok. Then I got this second message:
I clicked ok again and Rack opened empty. I opened the Seven Sisters patch again and everything seemed fine - added a bass module and tinkered with it for a while and because it was such a nice ambient generative landscape I put the recorder on and left it for a bit. I came back to my room about 1/2 an hour later and it had locked up again and required the same hard reset, but this time my computer REALLY struggled to get back to normal - it took a good 10 minutes of twirling circle dots before my regular screens came back.
Any idea what might cause this and if there is a fix?
Quick edit - working early so heading to bed now but will check back in the morning.
No suggestions? This one has actually screwed my computer up and I need IT support from a friend who built it for me. It takes almost 5 minutes for my computer to start and get to my normal screens now… The computer won’t go to sleep mode either. It just shuts itself off when I try and put it in sleep mode.
This could be any number of things. Is it HDD or SSD? Do some checks like chkdsk or a RAM diagnostics. Possibly check windows with sfc /scannow. At first guess, I wouldn’t assume VCV was the cause, maybe the crashes were just a symptom of some other problem.
This has nothing what so ever to do with VCV Rack. It has never caused anything like that. Instead you need to look for problems with your hardware and/or Operating System in general.
I’ve run into similar errors recently, but I’m developing plugins so I assumed it was some error I was causing to happen, but these errors are new so maybe there is some new bug in VCV rack causing these? I have not tracked down a consistent reproduce case yet.
That said I don’t think I got the hard lock up. Just the problem reading the file on load. Which might just be unrelated.
And I pressed ok. Then I got this second message:
I clicked ok again and Rack opened empty. I opened the Seven Sisters patch again and everything seemed fine - added a bass module and tinkered with it for a while and because it was such a nice ambient generative landscape I put the recorder on and left it for a bit. I came back to my room about 1/2 an hour later and it had locked up again and required the same hard reset, but this time my computer REALLY struggled to get back to normal - it took a good 10 minutes of twirling circle dots before my regular screens came back.
Any idea what might cause this and if there is a fix?