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Old September 30th, 2008, 05:52 PM
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Thanks Everyone! I'll keep you posted
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Old September 30th, 2008, 07:00 PM
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Again this sounds like a video card driver issue. On my Nvidia GeForce 5200 I could not use the latest driver. I had to keep trying old drivers until I found one that worked.


Again, this is a case where updating over something that may already work fine. I have also before updated drivers only to find out that the newer one was worse for certain programs, or didn't work at all. that's why they have a "roll back driver" option in control panel, too.
If something does already work, and if you're not absolutely positive that it's an old driver that's causing the current problem, updating for the sake of updating is not always advisable.
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Old October 1st, 2008, 10:27 AM
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Last night I checked every thing. All widows updates done, WMP11, XP Pro SP3, IE7. I updated my Video & Sound card drivers. Nothing helped. MTU tech support suggested I do updates and upgrade to 4.05 but this did not fix the problem either. However, I ran 3.4 and it worked fine. While I still think this has something to do with video resources etc., ultimately it is an MTU software issue! This should not be happening! Tonight I am going to replace my video card with an ATI Radeon 9000 256MB DDR RAM. If all else fails, at least I can use 3.4
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Old October 1st, 2008, 11:02 AM
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If you want all the new features that everyone asked for, it takes more resources to run them, so ultimately it is not a Hoster problem, but a progress problem caused by all who wanted these new features.
One point brought up in another thread was not to run .net Framework 3.5 as this is causing lag problems. Check to see what version of .net framework is on your computer.
Technically the new display format with the 3 frames on screen at once is what requires more video resources. Just like the newer 3D games available for you computer Hoster is bigger and requires a lot more resources to work properly.
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Old October 1st, 2008, 11:49 AM
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There is no doubt in my mind that this is a resource issue. I'm running 64MB DDR Video Ram which is 32MB more than the minimum recommended but I am upgrading to 256MB DDR Video Ram tonight. I will also check the .Net Framework version. Is there a recommended .Net Framework version?
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Old October 1st, 2008, 12:02 PM
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Having kept up with this Forum while Dale was out, I can tell you that several people who stated having problems with 3.5, went back to 3.0 and things are back in sync. This is not to say which is required to work with Hoster.
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Old October 1st, 2008, 01:13 PM
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I run my show with a laptop. Actually I have two. One is a backup and it is a couple of years older than the other. Neither are expensive laptops with heavy duty video cards, yet they both run hoster 4.05 without any problems. I have went through the manual and made sure I followed all the directions for turning things off and I have also made sure that I do not have any background programs loading at startup or trying to update themselves during my show.

I have upgraded the memory on both. Memory is cheap. Just some things to think about.
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