Hoster 4.2 and windows 7 disaster - FIXED in V4.22

[billyo]

from what i read on Ed's latest post, that there was a "bug fix" for this problems, and he wouldn't download it till he( hears) or knows that everyone who have his problems got theirs' fixed, and for you Ed, how about trying to download it, you'll never know , it might work, ( just a suggestion )

[Chad Slater]

I downloaded it last night and noticed that my lyrics were out of sync as well, used to have it at a -5 and now with the upgrade I had to move it to -8

[ddouglass]

Those who are having to use so much offset try using DXdiag and lower the acceleration for your audio. That may bring them back closer together.

[Ed Beram]

bryan , thank you for your attention to the "shut down" problem today. i am looking forward to a solution with your interest and help. you have restored my hope in the mtu i have known for many years.
Ed beram

[ginamon]

I don't know if this will help anyone, but a few posts up I saw someone mentioning that they were thinking of buying a new comp and wanted one that didn't have known problems, so I thought I would throw this in...

I bought Hoster 4.20 a couple months ago and a new HP G61 Laptop from Wal-Mart, it has Windows 7 Home Premium Version 6.1.7600 Build 7600, 3GB RAM, 1.64GB available physical memory, AMD Sempron M120, 2100 Mhz, 1 Core, I logical processor, My video card is AMD M880G with ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4200, and my soundcard is a ATI High Def Audio Device...

Sorry if I didn't provide enough (or too much) info, but since I have been using Hoster my laptop has not crashed once, with the old program I used it would crash 3-5 times a night, and not save the singers list... The only thing I noticed is that once I started using a DI box from my laptop to my soundboard that I had to use the lyric sync function, before that I didn't have to use it at all... The only other problem I have is that at my last show the music cut out for a few seconds, it only happened 3 times during my show. Since then I have made sure I made all the changes, defraged and got the new update so, fingers crossed for Friday...

Anywho, hope that was helpful for someone...
Jess

[Ed Beram]

thanks for the info. i would be interseted to know how the 4.21 revision works out for you on your next show. i have had some audio drop outs as well as crashes with 4.20 but wanted to see if other users are okay with 4.21 as a fix. as far as sound is concerned i am wondering if ithe drop out problem is with the x-fi-go usb sound card, windows 7 or hoster 4.20. i am trying different deductions to figure it out. ill keep the posts up as i go along.
ed

[ddouglass]

Ed I don't understand your hesitation to try 4.21. The only thing they did was to fix some code errors that were causing the problem of Hoster stopping at the end of a song and the others were having. Nothing else was changed or touched. There is absolutely no difference between 4.20 and 4.21 otherwise. This was not an upgrade with new added functions but a fix only of existing code.

[WaltR]

Originally Posted by ddouglass

Those who are having to use so much offset try using DXdiag and lower the acceleration for your audio. That may bring them back closer together.

Dale,

What is DXdiag???

Walt

[billyo]

Originally Posted by WaltR

Dale,

What is DXdiag???

Walt

it's a tool to diagnose/ troubleshoot video and audio related hardware problem.

[ddouglass]

It is a tool for DirectX.

[admin]

Originally Posted by WaltR

Dale,

What is DXdiag???

Walt

1. Click the Start button.

2. Click Run.

3. Type dxdiag in the field and press the Enter key.

4. Select the Sound Tab to see its "screen".

5. You will see a Hardware Sound Acceleration Level: slider. If it is at "Full", you may have better results with it at "No" or "Basic" settings (slide it to the left for these). Select "No Acceleration", close Dxdiag, and run Hoster to see if things are more stable. If not, do the same steps and try "Basic Acceleration".

[admin]

Originally Posted by Chad Slater

I downloaded it last night and noticed that my lyrics were out of sync as well, used to have it at a -5 and now with the upgrade I had to move it to -8

Chad, has 4.22 solved your sync problem?

[Chad Slater]

Originally Posted by admin

Chad, has 4.22 solved your sync problem?

Yes, it is working perfectly! Thank you all for getting it worked out!

[Deeter]

I'm not certain if there is a W7 reason for this or a 4.22 one or what.
Last night I had everything hooked up and started up the Macbook to run through a few songs. I forgot to turn both the singers monitor and the tv on beforehand. I'm using an un-powered Y splitter to the two monitors and have done so before with no problems. So when I turned on the TV and the monitor, I could only get the secondary display on the TV screen. Eventually I got it back on- by rebooting into MacOS and opening up a Mac-based karaoke package and then setting both the TV and the singers display at 1280x1024 resolution. So I reboot into W7 and, after much cajoling, get both monitors functioning. Now comes the strange stuff.
I can drag the lyrics window to the secondary monitor and resize it by dragging the corners and it stays put. If I drag it over and double-click it to fill the screen, the laptop screen goes to solid blue and the secondary screens go solid black. Double click again and it comes back, with Hoster control screen on the laptop and the lyrics window on the secondary screens. Weird.
Since that way is functional, I can live with it. But the other weird thing is the "Mini-Me" window that shows the lyrics screen in the Hoster main control window doesn't refresh. It just piles the lyrics screens on top of each other continually throughout the songs- it's pretty much unreadable.
So once the weekend of parties is over I'm going to start experimenting with settings, etc again.

[ddouglass]

Deeter, this is hard to say where the problem is. Is it the Mac o/s or W7 or a combination of both? If you do that again without turning on the monitor try right clicking on a blank area and go to properties, etc. You know how to do that. In other words if you turn on the laptop without having the monitor on before then it turns off the monitor output.
Instead of dragging the secondary to the monitor try double clicking on it on the laptop screen and see if it will jump over to the monitor that way.

[Deeter]

Yeah, Dale, it's strange.
If the Mac is booted without the monitor attached it won't see the other (split) monitos when plugged in- or it sees just one of them.
I had it working flawlessly a month or so ago, and when I was booting up last night I didn't follow the exact "Super Double Naught Spy" procedure correctly and "blooey".
I'll try the double click and see if it jumps over to the displays. I can't figure the bleeding on the small inset window lyrics. After the parties I'll keep mucking with it then never stray from the proper initiation sequence again..........