Crashing on Start up.

John-Vere wrote on 1/14/2026, 2:08 PM

Don't know what to do next. Been using product for years. .Vegas Pro Version 21.0 Build 315. Try to open and it crashes right after the VST scan. Looking at the crash report " Unmanaged Exception ( 0xc0000005 ) and various other like it.

Tried rebooting computer. then Opening from a saved file. Then I tried safe mode telling it to reset to defaults. Now I have uninstalled, and re installed from version on this website. Still crashes around the same place.

I have submitted about 4 crash reports.

Comments

DMT3 wrote on 1/14/2026, 3:45 PM

Try moving or renaming the VST folder and see if that helps.

John-Vere wrote on 1/14/2026, 8:46 PM

Problem solved by someone on the Studio One forum. The issue was caused by Studio one overriding a C++ file . I re installed it and I am back to work. Thanks for the suggestion. But in the end it wasn’t the plugins.

RogerS wrote on 1/14/2026, 9:15 PM

That makes sense. The top pinned post here is on this very issue: https://www.vegascreativesoftware.info/us/forum/warning-ms-vc-14-50-v145-kill-vegas-permanently--150332/

Steven-Skindell wrote on 1/17/2026, 9:12 AM

Been trying to figure out what was going on with vegas 20-23 .. on startup. Creating a rule to block the ads coming up only worked for me. Found on a site .. here is the rules I ran in powershell. The vegasupdate service is what was causing the problem Also, disabled the news in the preferences. No more problem.

Stop-Service "VegasUpdateService"
Set-Service "VegasUpdateService" -StartupType Disabled