Bad Crackling sound coming from hoster

[dmcmurdy]

Hello,

I am running Hoster 3.317 on a Hp Pavilion laptop. I recently switched back to windows xp from vista due the issues with vista. The sound was working just fine in vista. When I switched back to xp and reloaded all my kma files, Hoster now makes this wierd crackling sound when the somgs are played. This only happens in Hoster. I use otsdj for my music and everything works just fine on that end (i.e. no static or crackiling). could someone please help me in fixing this situation.

Thank You

[Beavis]

did you update your audio drivers ?

[dmcmurdy]

yes...all drivers have been updated.....i am running Conexant HD Audio....if it was my drivers then all my sound would be bad not just in hoster right?

[ddouglass]

When you switched back to XP did you go to the Microsoft Update page and do the Custom Updates? If not then that would probably be your problem. You need to load all of the updates and not just the critical ones that Microsoft pushes with their Auto Update.

[bryant]

Originally Posted by dmcmurdy

yes...all drivers have been updated.....i am running Conexant HD Audio....if it was my drivers then all my sound would be bad not just in hoster right?

Not neceassarily

[dmcmurdy]

I now have al the nesecary updates and downloads from windows. i even got Hoster 3.321 and still have the same crackiling problem. could it possibly be my cd/dvd reader? when i check it it says that it is not a karaoke reader. Would that be what is causing the problem?

[dmcmurdy]

let me just add that everything worked fine with vista. the reason that i switched back to xp is because i could not edit any of my songs. That is why i switched. I have this same program running on another hoster built pc and it is running fine. If it runs fine through vista, then it should run fine through xp right? Just getting frustrated

[ddouglass]

Originally Posted by dmcmurdy

I now have al the nesecary updates and downloads from windows. i even got Hoster 3.321 and still have the same crackiling problem. could it possibly be my cd/dvd reader? when i check it it says that it is not a karaoke reader. Would that be what is causing the problem?

If Hoster is telling you the drive isn't karaoke capable then yes this could be the problem with any file you import with it.

[dmcmurdy]

I am wondering why the drive is now non-Karaoke compatiable, as it was when Vista was installed?

[dmcmurdy]

i must reiterate that this is happening with the files that have already been imported on another computer. All i did was copy my kma files from my old system to my new laptop because i did not think it would mmakke a difference.

[dtbice]

Originally Posted by dmcmurdy

i must reiterate that this is happening with the files that have already been imported on another computer. All i did was copy my kma files from my old system to my new laptop because i did not think it would mmakke a difference.

Have you tried to delete the files from the new laptop and copy them again? What method did you use to move the files to the laptop?

[Flipeoke]

I would second the idea of getting all custom updates from Microsoft. Once that is done (or if it has already been done) run dxdiag.exe from the start menu and try reducing the harware accelleration for your sound card. See if that makes any difference.

Flip