Sound Forge 14 Crashes so frequently I have never been able to use it. I reverted early to Sound Forge 12 and waited for updates to 14 that never came. Will Sound Forge 15 be supported?
Welcome to the Magix Sound Forge users forum @Bruce-Maine
You are not stating much information to help you.. Read the 'Sticky' at the head for the main Sound Forge forum page.
What version of Sound Forge, (Audio Studio or Pro)?? Did you purchase SF-14 and did it install and activate successfully?? Do the same files work OK in SF-12 and what are the files' format???
Going from SF-12 to SR-14 is an "Upgrade" and must be purchased. An "Update" is a new build with bug fixes and such of the same version number. That is free.
I have Sound Forge 14.0 Pro (suite) build 130, purchased as an Upgrade to 12. It installed and activated successfully. I'm using it on a Desktop with an I7-4790K CPU @ 6.00 GHz with Win10 which I keep up to date.
I mostly work with .pca and mp3 files, usually 256 kb/s. All the files work well with version 12 about 99% of the time. There are maybe 2 crashes a week if I'm working steadily. Version 11 was the best, hardly any crashes with that version. The files have worked 0% ever since I upgraded to 14.0. I keep submitting crash reports when the system lets me, but usually SF14 blanks out totally with no minder to submit a report. In 14, the system will let me open a file and maybe save it in another format. If I so much as drop a marker, which is most likely what I'd do first, it's unlikely to run another minute. Sometimes it'll let me get to a save, and crash then.
I've rarely started up 14 in the last ... year (?) because I get nothing done.
Try enabling "Always proxy compressed formats" in "Options> Preferences> General".
If you would prefer all files open in the same instance of SF, see this recent multiple-instances comment.
The 'single instance' default was changed to 'multi-instance' in the build just before 130. This would not be the cause your crashes however.. just a FYI.