I think this has only happened since the latest VEPro version, but anything I have that contains the EW Play plug in, gets stuck at "Preparing to load" (1%). I have to exit VEPro (which causes it to crash), restart it, load my (backup) viframe, and then connect Cubase to it. Alternatively I can disable the Play plug in before connecting to Cubase, and that will allow it load (minus the EW channel).
I run VEPro as a slave (64-bit Windows 7), and Cubase as the master networked, so Cubase will never connect to anything if VEPro contains an instance of EW Play, I don't want to roll back to an earlier version of VE Pro, as Dimension Strings needs the latest version.
I also use BFD and Trilian, so it's not a VST plug in issue, it does seem to only affect Play, has anybody else experienced this, and is there a fix for this?