All versions of Audition crash upon starting up

[TomKauw]

Just as the title says: all versions (at least from 22.0 up until 23.6) of Audition are crashing upon starting up. Sometimes immediately, other times after going through some motions in the start-up window, but it never actually launches.

I've seen a couple of workarounds pass through that are meant to alleviate this issue, but I would love for Adobe to deliver a service that doesn't need a trial-and-error on the consumer side to even get into the software. We're paying top money for this entire suite of software, how come some of its more basic proponents aren't even booting up? 

Adobe Audition versions 22.0 to 23.6
Windows 11 Home, 64-bit (10.0, build 22621)
AMD Ryzen 9 5950X / RTX 3090

[SteveG_AudioMasters_]

Strange that the rest of us aren't having these problems, isn't it? Perhaps you'd like to open the crash log from the latest version and copy and paste it into this thread - then we might be able to work out what's causing these crashes. If you can't reach the log files from the Help menu, then there are instructions as to how to locate them here. 

[TomKauw]

Really loving that hint of shade you snuck in there, my man. Are we not allowed to be slightly upset when the tools of our trade are suddenly failing us?

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Ticks = 438 <7748> <AuLog.Startup> <5> Initializing Application Settings
Ticks = 672 <7748> <AuLog.Startup> <5> Application: Audition
Ticks = 672 <7748> <AuLog.Startup> <5> Version: 23.6.1
Ticks = 672 <7748> <AuLog.Startup> <5> Build: 3
Ticks = 688 <7748> <AuLog.Startup> <5> AuUI initialization sequence started...
Ticks = 688 <7748> <AuLog.Startup> <5> Initializing Crash Recovery
Ticks = 703 <7748> <AuLog.Startup> <5> FYI, it looks like the app crashed last time it was starting up...
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Ticks = 766 <8144> <DynamicLink> <5> Increase wait time to 2
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[SteveG_AudioMasters_]

This doesn't look like a crash log - the first line with ticks=703 rather suggests that it's the previous log we'd need to see...

[John Waller]

I've seen a couple of workarounds pass through that are meant to alleviate this issue,

By @TomKauw

Does that include putting exceptions for Adobe in your AV software which seem to have been successful in this discussion?

https://community.adobe.com/t5/audition-bugs/adobe-audition-v23-5-crashes-on-startup/idi-p/13894397

Any other workarounds you've seen which have been successful? Have you tried them?