My Mac Freezes/Crashes When I Launch Resource-Intensive Apps (DaVinci, Ableton Live…)

arkitek06 wrote:

It's a start of a solution because the software that freezes my Mac is typically those using AU or VST (Ableton Live and Da Vinci). However, I have other software that also uses plugins (Studio One, Luna), but I haven't had any freezing issues with them.

Just to clarify, I wasn't referring to the freezing issue. I was just looking at the unexplained high runtime in your EtreCheck report.

Another possible explanation would be hard drives. Problematic hard drives can cause both unexplained high EtreCheck runtimes and random lock-ups. As always, look at the mechanical drives first. You have a USB drive and I can't tell if that drive is mechanical or USB. Even if the drive isn't involved in any way with what you are doing, it is still part of the file system. So when you double click on a file to launch, it may search that drive for an app to launch it. The only way to test this is to disconnect the potentially problematic drive and see if the problem continues. Just do them one at a time. And since you have to test for absence of a problem, that's difficult. You have to wait a suitably long time until you can decide if the problem isn't happening anymore.

How much free space on your system drive, and other drives? Low disk space could cause this.

Another possibility is some bad RAM. Since this Mac has removable RAM, you could try removing one of the memory chips, test, repeat.

Disk space appears ok.

A RAM chip from a reputable vendor can still go bad...

Please run Etrecheck and post its full report here. Use the "additional text" button and paste the report into the text box.

I think I know what the cause is, but I don't have a solution.

I've seen many people report unusual and unexplained slow-downs when they have lots of audio plug-ins. You have 803. I understand why people have so many plugins. I don't know why this is causing problems. Some EtreCheck users have complained that EtreCheck has mysteriously started reporting reduced performance. But I think this is just a side effect of whatever else in the system is slowing down.

Your EtreCheck report took 23 minutes to run. You have no problem with storage or file system speeds. So why did the report take so long to run? I don't know. I do know that I've seen several people with a very similar pattern and they all had 500+ audio plugins.

C'est pas grave 😎

Cependant, il est très facile de change la langue pour un logiciel en particulier, sans altérer la langue du système:

(mon système est en anglais)

System Settings->General->Language & Region