Lagging, crashes, takes a while to playback. None of my other programs (Adobe included) do this.

Report · Jun 02, 2020

Premiere works fine, After Effects, Audacity, even Sony Vegas runs smoothly with instant playback even with heavy audio and effects applied. But somehow, despite being an audio-only program, Audition sucks. It's slow, lags for minutes with playback and commands, hogs all the memory, and now every time I make even the slightest edit I get a crash report for this file I'm working on.

I tried disabling effects both for clips and for tracks, it doesn't help and even if it did it's not a solution so much as it is a workaround. Tried disabling "use hardware acceleration for drawing", I've sent detailed crash reports, I've downgraded to last year's version of Audition. I've done everything and I'm starting to lose faith in adobe if the program functions this badly.

What am I missing? I'm ready to pull a Ron Swanson and just throw my computer in a dumpster (actually I won't, everything else works fine).

I use Windows 10. Here are the specs:
Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i3-4330 CPU @ 3.50GHz 3.50 GHz
Installed RAM: 8.00 GB
System type: 64-bit operating system, x64-based processor

Report · Jun 03, 2020

Can we see the crash reports, please?

Report · Jun 03, 2020

Love to, but it's stopped giving crash reports entirely and is just shutting the program down now (or every time I apply an effects preset for an audio clip in multitrack).

Report · Jun 03, 2020

Oh, it's still generating them. Even if you fail completely to reopen the program, it generates a program log about the attempt, and there's a reasonable chance that this will give a clue about what stopped it previously. The other thing is - when you restart it, does it offer to reopen the previous session?

I should also say that this is entirely abnormal behaviour...

Report · Jun 03, 2020

Yes it does, which isn't of use since I only have tried to make one change these past hundred or so attempts and that change never gets saved.

Report · Jun 04, 2020

Just the fact that it's asking indicates that it's generating a log...

Report · Jun 07, 2020

A similar thing is happening to me (Windows 10). How can I find the log?

Report · Jun 07, 2020

Try Help>Reveal Log files...

Or if it really won't open at all, then the information you need to locate them is in the Audition Crashed - what now? thread.

Report · Jun 08, 2020

Thanks Steve. I was able to keep it open long enough to get to Help>Reveal Log files. But I'm not sure how to read those. I tried opening in Notepad and it was all just incomprehensible gobbledyguk as far as I could tell :-P. I don't see a way to attach a file here. What is the best way to read these files to see what is causing Audition to freeze like this. I mean it literally is totally unusable.

Report · Jun 08, 2020

You open the file in Notepad and copy and paste it from there into the thread. Preferrably start a new thread for it, otherwise it all gets a bit confusing.

Report · Jun 08, 2020

Will do. Thanks!