I encountered a sudden hard crash (silent exit) in FL Studio 2026 shortly after replacing an instance of Scaler 3 on the Channel Rack with another plugin (FLEX in this case). FL Studio closed instantly without generating its own crash log, but the Windows Event Viewer captured an Access Violation (0xc0000005) specifically tied to the unloading state of the VST3 module.
System Details:
- OS: Windows 10
Windows Event Log Data:
Faulting application name: FL64.exe, version: 26.1.1.5547, time stamp: 0x6a50cba4
Faulting module name: Scaler 3.vst3_unloaded, version: 3.3.0.0, time stamp: 0x6a5774b9
Exception code: 0xc0000005
Fault offset: 0x0000000000bbbb90
Faulting process id: 0x3b98
Faulting application start time: 0x01dd14f56dd08a01
Faulting application path: C:\Program Files\Image-Line\FL Studio 2026\FL64.exe
Faulting module path: Scaler 3.vst3
Report Id: e775ca46-87a7-4aed-8a0b-eb98075aea00