I have been having all kind of problems with WL 8.5.3. The program freezes, crashes and stops while just playing back a simple 44.2/16 bit file. Not good. I thought it might be my 5 year old computer so I went out and built a state of the art computer with 16 gigs of memory and two SSD drives but the same things are happening to the program. It gets worse when using plugins from different manufactures including FAB filters and Izotope. It has been suggested that maybe it is my sound card (RME 9632) but all the other DAWs on my computer are stable and work well. These include Audition, Sound Forge, Samplitude and even Adobe Premier Pro. I am getting to my wits end. The last "stable" version of WL for me was WL6 running on Windows XP. I have posted this information in other forums and have gotten a lot of helpful advice but the problems still remain.
Any suggestions from this professional group of mastering engineers?
Thanks in advance.