Suddenly Microeditor hanging - SoundBlaster Live is problem!

[tsimpson]

Hello,

I hope someone may be able to post some advice

I have recently added a Creative Soundblaster Live Platinum 5.1 sound card with live drive into our microeditor system.

Since then the Microeditor software appears to hanging periodically.

Short projects seem ok but longer ones of say 15 mins will hang on playback or save as .wav file type operations.

The symptoms seem very similar to the current thread on lvd drives so I will try some of the solutions there, but would be keen to know if anybody else had had similar problems.

The drives are quite old (in computer terms anyway) seagate 9.0gb drives on an adaptec 2940 controller on an asus m/board.

Tim

[admin]

Tim, remove the SBLive card and all will return to normal.

We have been working since September to identify this problem. We have been rewriting how Krystal communicates over the PCI-bus back to the host processor. In our testing, we found that any use of bus mastering DMA for communications would cause lockups with the newer Intel 815 chipset and the VIA chipset (used on newer motherboards!).

It appears this was the problem that causes Krystal to crash with a SBLive installed in the host computer.

I just now received an upgrade from Larry with all bus mastering DMA removed!!!!!! Excited??? Who ME???

There is a chance that Kristal MAY WORK with the SoundBlaster Live card with Microeditor V5.4 release. We will test this today.

[tsimpson]

Thanks for info I will remove the card and retest hopefully tonight.

Is it possible to disable the card rather than actually removing it ?

As obviously I need the facilities of the card for other things

Is there a projected date for release 5.4 or any likelyhood of a patch for version 5.3

Thanks

Tim Simpson

[admin]

I received the basic upgrade code for Microeditor V5.4 this morning. We will start beta test later this morning.

As soon as it proves to not be crashing, we might be able to get a psudo-release that upgrades V5.3. Watch the http://www.mtu.com/basics/news.htm page for announcements.

We have not verified if it works with SoundBlaster Live. If not, we'll see if we can't make it work.

There is no software way we are aware of to disable a SBL board. Wish there was!

[tsimpson]

I did some tests last night and indeed as you said once the soundblaster is not there all is well.

You can disable the sound blaster card through the windows 98 device manager.

On our system you dont even have to reload simply disable the the device in this configuration via the properties on the device manager

do your work on microedit

then reenable the device to do any work that requires the soundblaster card.

Although its far from ideal it is a workable solution.

but I look forward to anything you can do to enable us to use both systems together

Tim

[tsimpson]

Its been a while since I heard anything about this

did you manage to get version 5.4 to work with a soundblaster 5.1 card ?

Tim

[admin]

Tim, we have not had time to go back and test with the SoundBlaster Live. Since 5.4 is free for 5.3 users, it is worth trying.

[tsimpson]

First of all thanks for sending version 5.5 to us in Carnoustie so quickly.

Good news having upgraded our system to XP professional and Microedit 5.5

Soundblaster 5.5 now works perfectly alongside microedit


Does anyone have any pointers to using DirectX with Microedit

Tim

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