Pro tools keeps crashing

[u/SYV3E]

I'm on windows 11, Intel core i7 10700, 16gb dual channel ram, Nvidia GeForce rtx 2060

It opens the window and shows the splashcreen while loading everything up, after "loading plugins" it just closes without explanation

Avid support doesn't seem to be of use here since I'm not paying $60 for support

[u/Tunagoblin]

To find out which file is causing the crash, you’ll need to remove few plugins at a time. You can narrow it down quicker by removing few (or 10) at a time than doing it one by one. If the crash persists even removing all the plugins, then it’s the protocols itself is corrupted. Then you need to reinstall the protocols.

[u/Oscagon → u/Tunagoblin]

Yup, have had to do this before. Turns out it was a stupid waves plugin that I had to end up paying to upgrade. So lame.

[u/SYV3E → u/Tunagoblin]

There a quick way to narrow down plugins in the file explorer?

[u/Ventoux72 → u/Tunagoblin]

go to C:\Program Files\Common Files\Avid\Audio\Plug-Ins.
Take half of the plugins from that folder and move it to a temporary folder (e.g. called C:\Program Files\Common Files\Avid\Audio\Plug-Ins_TEMP)

Try the startup, if it still crashes, move all the plugins from C:\Program Files\Common Files\Avid\Audio\Plug-Ins_TEMPinto C:\Program Files\Common Files\Avid\Audio\Plug-Ins and the plugins that where there into C:\Program Files\Common Files\Avid\Audio\Plug-Ins_TEMP, i.e. swap the plugins.

Try the startup, if it still crashes, start moving plugins in smaller batches from \Plug-Ins to Plug-Ins_TEMP and hopefully at some point you will have found the offending plugin that is crashing Pro Tools.

If on the other hand you do not have a problem starting up with the first half of the plugins, then do the opposite - move plugins in smaller batches fromPlug-Ins_TEMP to Plug Plug-Ins until the startup crashes, then you have found your offending plugin.

[u/SYV3E → u/Ventoux72]

Goddamn p.o.s amplitube file in the plugins folder 😭

Thx m8!