Vegas Pro 23 crashing on startup

Dlow-Great wrote on 9/24/2025, 8:55 PM

Since upgrading to Vegas Pro 23, my projects crash when I open them around 75% of the time.

The initial pop up box appears and loads all the way, then the actual program pops up, but the load bar at the bottom left of the application only loads to a specific percent (this is project dependent) and then Vegas either stops responding, or crashes altogether. I have to sit there opening the project sometimes 20+ times in a row, and how that the project actually opens up.

I don't even get any crash report box, since the app itself just closes or freezes and needs to be forced shut off through my task manager.

Has anyone else seen similar issues with Vegas 23? This has happened to me on Vegas 22, but it was EXTREMELY rare. Any settings or files that I could change to potentially fix or use to find a solution?

WINDOW ON CRASH:

STUCK PERCENTAGE:

Comments

andyrpsmith wrote on 9/25/2025, 2:13 AM

Can you just open V23 on its own without opening a project?

(Intel 3rd gen i5@4.1GHz, 32GB RAM, SSD, 1080Ti GPU, Windows 10) Not now used with Vegas.

13th gen i913900K - water cooled, 96GB RAM, 4TB M2 drive, 4TB games SSD, 2TB video SSD, GPU RTX 4080 Super, Windows 11 pro