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@Steven-Wood Some additional things you could try: Open cmd.exe as administrator (it's best to enter cmd in the Windows search and then right-click the search result to start as administrator), type DISM.exe /Online /Cleanup-image /Restorehealth

Movie Studio

9 answers, most recent on 10/24/2025

[Solved] Movie Sudio 2025 developed a strange behaviour

Greetings, MS2025 is starting to annoy me. For the past couple of weeks or so I've been editing some of my nieces GoPro MOVs (I think - Cineform anyway) videos. This has been going well with no real hassle except for some stange reason occasionally

SOUND FORGE

77 answers, most recent on 2/4/2026

RE: SFPro continually crashes - versions 14-18

@SteveMTNO Ok. Yes, then I suspect that without reinstalling Windows or using an external USB audio interface with its own ASIO drivers we likely cannot suggest much else. It's odd that iZotope also crashed after you updated the audio drivers. This

Movie Studio

17 answers, most recent on 1/11/2026

RE: Very high RAM usage even with a few slides

This is an ongoing issue. (more then 2 years for me) i dont know what magix is doing somethimes. but while running movie studio 2024 ram is filling up to the point of a system crash. way above 95%. (64gb)even when there are only a few short videos

Music Maker

2 answers, most recent on 4/17/2024

RE: Version 2024 keeps freezing up

i @Heich, As per @SP.'s suggestions, I too was having issues with Music Maker 2024. This link provides background and suggested workarounds; https://www.magix.info/us/forum/new-install-music-maker-2024-laggy-and-crashes--1336575/#ca1928656

Music Maker

3 answers, most recent on 6/25/2024

i need help with the music maker MX Installer

so like the title says i tried to download the installer for music maker mx (i purchased it in 2012) and run it but it shows up like itll load but crashes at zero percent when trying to download the installer ive disabled the firewall the virus

Samplitude

30 answers, most recent on 7/10/2025

RE: Samplitude Music Studio X8 - suddenly crashing

Sorry......i feel like I'm spamming the forum but I keep trying a bunch of different stuff to resolve this issue (without success). I have managed to capture the error code box in case that helps anyone here come up with a solution that I haven't

ACID

15 answers, most recent on 12/19/2024

RE: 🎄🎉 ACID PRO 11 + SOUND FORGE 16 - CHRISTMAS CRASH SPECTACULAR! 🎉🎄

@Forever-Season Ok. Maybe a plugin crashes the scan. There are audio_plugin_scan_server exe files in the Acid program folder. Maybe move them temporarily to another location. If I remember it correctly Acid will then throw an error message and not

ACID

6 answers, most recent on 4/22/2024

RE: Crashes every five minutes literally

Hi Brandon, I had lots of issues with using VST's in the Acid Pro program and it kept crashing. I found out that Acid just does not play well with any VST's whatsoever. Someone else on this board suggested using Waves StudioRack (free download

Movie Studio

4 answers, most recent on 11/8/2023

[Solved] Movie Edit Pro 2021

Anyone know how to resolve this error? Tried uninstalling and reinstalling program, to no avail. Error only started today. If I select continue program, get message telling me system is unstable and then close's program. If I select display crash

Music Maker

36 answers, most recent on 12/17/2025

RE: Need help fixing magix..am losing hope

I Return, thank you all who helped me before. @SP. @johnebaker @CRH Magix has not crashed in a little over a week. I reset my pc 3 times. Got 48Gb more of ram to a total of 112(will get final 32ram soon). And I got a bigger and stronger SSd to hold

Movie Studio

4 answers, most recent on 12/20/2024

RE: Humble Bundle for MMS 2024 Suite Perpetual.

@CubeAce Hi, that seems like dam good offer.. Vegas Edit Pro 21 was the first version that had some major changes, it became very stable, VP18, 19 & 20 crashed for me on a regular basis, multiple times daily. I can honestly say since VP21 build

Photostory

15 answers, most recent on 1/28/2026

RE: 2026 Manual doesn't agree with program - Split Photostory, etc.

@doane Hi . . . . DVD writer is not Bluetooth capable . . . . To clarify, Bluetooth is a format of wireless communication between devices, eg mobile phone/ear buds mouse/computer. Blu-ray is a disc format. . . . . anyway to use a custom menu image

Movie Studio

24 answers, most recent on 9/20/2025

RE: Inserting a clip on the timeline

Hi John, Yes, that makes it simpler and less fault prone, thanks. @Reyfox You are right, when you change you need to eat it all... On this software: I am still in the learning curb, so I make a lot of starters mistakes working on a rather complex

Music Maker

33 answers, most recent on 1/17/2025

RE: magix music maker 2024 won't load past loading keyboard shortcuts

Hi Jeff and John, Thank you for the quick response, MMM 2024, i5-11600KF 3.90GHz 3912 MHz 6 cores, I have set systems as per John's recommendations (thank you John) both for the default playback, Program Settings and Asio Settings, but unfortunatley

ACID

267 answers, most recent on 4/2/2026

RE: Feedback on ACID Bugs

When I right click on the tracks number it crashes.

Movie Studio

19 answers, most recent on 11/3/2024

RE: program crash on export after 5 minutes movie studio 2025.

noticed it clipped above at 18 secs so never got to end but extract with tick dumps movie the setting with the X terminates and crashes program if set to arc 770 for processing what does that tell us it wasa plain clip with schrolling txt

Samplitude

4 answers, most recent on 7/31/2023

[Solved] X5 and 365 - Problems

I just had a computer crash (magix mm 2023 was on the crashed computer), so my 2nd computer has Samplitude X5, and compared to Magix MM it is chalk and cheese in terms of Automation. No matter what I did with X5, the audio recording is distorted,

Video Pro X

3 answers, most recent on 3/4/2024

RE: Program keeps crashing every few minutes - help!

@Emily-B A crash in Kernelbase.dll is likely a crash caused by a driver. Drivers run on the same level as the Windows kernel. Most likely it's the graphics card driver. It could already help if you install an earlier version of the driver instead of

SOUND FORGE

77 answers, most recent on 2/4/2026

RE: SFPro continually crashes - versions 14-18

@SteveMTNO Can you create also a new file with the same attributes of your large file (192 Khz, 24 bit) and fill it with 40m25s of Insert > Synthesis > Simple? Can you save, load and edit it without crashing? If yes, then there is a problem

Movie Studio

10 answers, most recent on 1/29/2024

Movie Studio 2024 Platinum won't run - crashes and clears.

I bought it, installed it and registered it. It starts and gets to the main screen, then crashes and clears going back to some other screen.

Photostory

53 answers, most recent on 11/30/2024

RE: new photostory 2025 version is completely UNUSABLE and crashes...

Hello John EB, I have tried everything you have suggested, but PhotoStory still doesn't work. Just crashes. I have done a complete clean re-install of my Windows OS and it is still the same. My system works perfectly with my other video and image

SOUND FORGE

5 answers, most recent on 9/15/2023

[Solved] SoundForge Pro (11) issue with seeing iZotope RX plugins

Having changed over to a new computer, my SoundForge no longer sees the plugins for iZotope RX. I believe that they are located in the correct folder to be referenced by SF Options/VST set up. I can also see them being scanned, however, they do not