I was pretty skeptical because we were focusing on ASUS and sonic studio is a Realtek software/driver...and I hadn't been "frantically resizing the window" as mentioned in the bug report you linked...but I removed the driver and uninstalled the software, then restarted the computer.
... guess what ...
It works!!
I wasn't able to get it to crash, in any of the options above...and I even tried with a child window left open on the 2nd monitor.
What was really surprising is that I still had sound on my machine - I could listen to the "Once More With Feeling" soundtrack at full volume with no issues. And yes, only the truly enlightened among us know the masterwork to which I refer... (no googling!!)
I think we can call this one solved! Thank you all!!!
