One of the bar is asking me to go back to Hoster 3.21

[mindonstrike]

Originally Posted by rickyrey

There someone around that says that I am the only one facing this problems

Glad to hear that I am not alone. I will stick with MTU till the end so I won't ask for a refund. What I am trying to do is to inform MTU about the software issues so they have some feedback

If you are having these problems with 3.4 then you are the only one.

3.4 is 3.321, just with a different number. If you have problems with 3.4 there's 99.9% chance you will with 3.321 as well.

[rickyrey]

No, I'm not having troubles with 3.4 but the way it behaves, no way it is the exact 3.21 version.

[ddouglass]

The only change they made to 3.4 was to allow it to work under the 4.0 registration code. What works differently?

[JNS02]

Originally Posted by capnvic

I have 4.04 on my Dell Inspiron 1520 with the NVIDIA 8400GS and I have not seen the shuddering nor the synchronization problems. Perhaps it is because I have 4GB of memory. The only problem I have had with VISTA is the periodic lockups, but I run the O/S in classic mode, and I made sure I downloaded the latest driver from NVIDIA. I try not to run WMP nor do I have any other unnecessary applications running.

That was actually my next question for Dale but you may have answered, I am only running 2gb of ram and I know Vista is a memory hog. So maybe I better add a couple GB

[capnvic]

I have another suggestion, it may be worth a few cents...If you don't want to run VISTA, you can revert to XP Pro with the Product ID Code for Windows VISTA. Microsoft may not like it but, I have done it on a desktop computer that was giving me fits with VISTA Ultimate. That PC is working like a champ. I may go ahead later and reinstall VISTA, maybe when SP2 comes out.

[admin]

Gentlepersons,

I am pained to read this Thread because you are all honored customers, and... I am a perfectionist. We do NOT see the problems you are experiencing, and we test on XP+SP3, Vista Home Basic, Home Premium, and Vista 64.

RickyRay pointed out that VIP and Beta Testers seem to be running without problems, but not "common" users.

Read and DO all the changes to your system in this FAQ page:

http://www.mtu.com/faq-test.php?article=98

This is one reason "seasoned" users are not experiencing the problems some of you are.

Vista's SIDEBAR takes an ENORMOUS amount of compute power. If you have it running... disable it.

AERO also plays havoc with video/audio products. Consider disabling it.

There are other changes to make. I hope this helps more of you in this Thread. I know we would all like to hear WHICH of the changes you make (and if you have XP or Vista), and did they work. This will help us and all our users.

We ARE listening....

[JNS02]

Read and DO all the changes to your system in this FAQ page:

http://www.mtu.com/faq-test.php?article=98




Admin, I have done every change that you suggested and I still have the lyric sync problem in 4.05. All of the other problems went away. I run Vista and found the aero problem by accident a long time ago and have not run that since. I disabled sidebar also. I have all updates of my drivers. I don't have any problems with 4.03 and will continue to run it until 4.10 release. I absolutly LOVE this Program. It is hard sometime to keep up with all of the 'fixes' in the forum. Sometimes the Post gets off track and take a differant direction. I'll hang in there and continue to blame VISTA when things go wrong at shows (last 2 weeks error free). Keep up the good work.

[rickyrey]

When I search song [in version 3.40] it takes a little longer to load them to the playlist. That is what makes me think that there are some small changes.

[rickyrey]

I followed all the instructions above and still Hoster 4 is giving me troubles in XP or Vista. There are certain songs that start with effects (I'm talking about the karaoke company logo) and Hoster 4 takes much longer to produce those graphics so the songs are not syncronized. The lyrics go way behing the music and while those songs are playing I see that Hoster never tries to catch up. The arrangement of one of the song contains 2 verses 2 bridges and 3 chorus. Hoster displays the first chorus lyrics over the 3 and final chorus. I am talking way behind.

[ddouglass]

Originally Posted by rickyrey

I followed all the instructions above and still Hoster 4 is giving me troubles in XP or Vista. There are certain songs that start with effects (I'm talking about the karaoke company logo) and Hoster 4 takes much longer to produce those graphics so the songs are not synchronized. The lyrics go way behing the music and while those songs are playing I see that Hoster never tries to catch up. The arrangement of one of the song contains 2 verses 2 bridges and 3 chorus. Hoster displays the first chorus lyrics over the 3 and final chorus. I am talking way behind.

What brands? There may be something that needs to be addressed by MTU to make them work right. I know that the SAV series do not play the opening and closing title pages correctly. I think there was one other that has been found too, but can't remember which one it was (Oldtimers disease-CRS).
Have you tried cutting your colors from 32 bit down to 16 bit? This has helped in a lot of cases.

[MTUSUPPORT]

I have found that under Hoster 4.05 using HDMP3G files and moving the Main Volume Slider, it will cause the Audio to Stutter, and the graphics will then play out of sync.

Can all customers that are having this problem, cofirm that they are doing this? If not, please tell me exactly what you are doing when it happens.

Please post what type of files you are using when it does this. I need to know if they are CDCDG, HDMP3G, etc...

This is shown in the Playlist window under Type when you have the files in your playlist.

Also, this does NOT occur when I go back to version 4.03 as stated above.

[bryant]

Originally Posted by mindonstrike

If you are having these problems with 3.4 then you are the only one.

3.4 is 3.321, just with a different number. If you have problems with 3.4 there's 99.9% chance you will with 3.321 as well.

maybe he's in that .1% bracket. Can't think of another reason.

[rickyrey]

I just use the forum to tell MTU what is happening.

The fact is that Hoster 4.0 apparently works for all VIPs and beta testers... for all the common people is not working properly. The guilty ones are the computers, video cards, vista, upgrades not done, the users, but not the software, something is seriously wrong with Vista and Hoster we' all know that but then, how come I don't have problems with other programs that I use? and yeah maybe I am the .1%.