Windows XP PRO Crash"n"Burn with GS 2.5 BETA

[Slicknickel]

I\'m curious as to how many others have installed GS 2.5 and made Windows XP Pro go belly up! I do know that it takes one screwed up program to do this. GS 160 actually works well and they have fixed the click and buzz thing that was happinin in 2.2 and all seems well until I exit. It then displays \"Serious Problem error\" with GS 2.5. Windows continues to work fine until I completely reboot, then it goes to blue screen, disk check or completely hangs the system until I go to safe mode and select \"last time XP ran well option\" It took 5 reboots to do this. I use a Delta 1010 with WDM drivers, Sonar and have butt loads of RAM. Lets see if we can get the folder icon on the left side to BURN, post your GS 2.5 Win XP experiences here! (and also send them to TASCAM so they can help us!) Happy Happy Joy Joy

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[pmuse]

What is the action that caused the crash to occur? We have just uncovered a bug where clicking \"bypass\" on a NFX plug-in will cause this exact behavior to happen. Perhaps your issue is related.

Thanks,
Kevin

[poq]

It seems that a number of people have trouble with GS 2.5, XP, and possibly with the Delta 1010 as well. I use the same lethal combination... Gigastudio works fine by itself, but whenever I attempt to delete a file on my computer or export a file to .wav from SONAR the whole computer reboots. Uninstalling Gigastudio instantly fixes the problem.

How horrible.

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poq

[gigagagga]

I get the same \"serious error\" message and it seems to be happening more and more as time goes on!. ( giga 2.5 and Windows XP pro)

I tried to get on to the Tascam forum to ask questions but they never e-mail me my pass code. (think they are having so many problems that they don\'t want all the bad posts to hurt sales?)

My old version of gigastudio 160 was running very well and now i have nothing but problems

anyone else?

How can I get on to the tascam forums to ask whats going on?

giga...

[Viktor]

Yeepp. Same lethal combination here as well. Giga 2.5 rev 42
Sonar 1.31
Delta audiophile wdm .26

PC reboots when I access sonar or Giga. It seems to me that the problem is related to delta drivers. OTOH, Giga plays fine, 160 poly no problem. But it loads slow, I have to wait about 1 minute before Giga starts up with no *.gig files loaded. Anyone?

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[Brian Deeley]

Viktor

I had exactly the same problems are you - reboots on Giga load. I also have Sonar V1.3.1 / Audiophile. My systems never crashed until Giga was installed and then it\'s reboots...reboots....every time Giga is loaded.

Problem went away for me when I selected output port 1/2 in Giga (I was routing it to 3/4 - i.e. the SPDIF output) and used the German .26 drivers - they are different from the American ones.

System is now very stable and Sonar + Giga are best of friends again and I am getting lots done (at last!!!).

Hope that helps.

Brian.

[Viktor]

http://www.northernsounds.com/ubb/NonCGI/images/icons/frown.gif

I use \'German\' drivers and output is also routed to outputs1+2, but crashes still occurs. Maybe I should route Sonar to outputs 3+4 and do the mixing on the card. Maybe multiclienting thing is what causes the crashes.

Still, audiophile is great card and sonar and giga are great products.

[Brian Deeley]

Viktor

Is the Audiophile control panel set to \"Single and in Sync\"??? Also increase the latency in the same panel (I think mine is set to 10).

Try that.

Good luck.

Brian.

[Brian Deeley]

Make sure the SYNC is set to \"Single\" and not \"Independent\" and increase the latency in the Audiophile control panel to 10.

Good luck.

Brian.

[clydejazz]

An old trick when you find that booting Giga is a problem is to use MIDI Yoke as the MIDI output drivers from your sequencer instead of Nemesys Endless Wave MIDI drivers. You have to select MIDI Yoke as the MIDI inputs in Giga. It\'s worth a try if you haven\'t tried it.

[Viktor]

Brian,

Thanks for your help, but my Giga beta still crashes the computer. And also I dont want to increase latency in delta control panel because then my sonar latency will also rise up. Giga team should work on it in co-operation with m-audio. I heard of lots of people who have the same problem with sonar, delta card and giga 2.5 beta. That cant be coincidence.

Thanks anyway

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[Deep White]

W2K Pro here, same serious error message. I also noticed that if I close \"msg32.exe\" in the task manager, my system doesn\'t crash. Yet that\'s what GS needs to work.

I also use SONAR 1.3.1. And I also found that once I uninstalled GS beta the problem went away. A pretty good way to proove itself a beta, huh, Tascam?

What is more strange, I couldn\'t launch GS beta successfully unless I uninstalled MIDI Yoke.

Arys Chien

[pmuse]

Hello All,

Interesting thread of discussion here. I can address a couple of the issues you folks are having. First of all, I have a Giga/Sonar/Xp workstation with an Audiophile 2496. All works together very well for me.

There are some key elements that need to be in place for this to work:

* You need the latest and proper GSIF sound card driver installed.

1. First you need Sonar configured (without GigaStudio running)to use either output ports 1/2 or 3/4 only if you plan to run GigaStudio at the same time. Be sure to de-select the ports you are NOT using in the Options->Audio->Drivers page of the Sonar program settings. It will prompt you to restart the program before these changes will take effect.

2. You should then configure GigaStudio (without Sonar running) to use the output ports that Sonar is NOT using.

**No way are the two programs going to be able to use ant of the output ports already designated to be used by another program**

3. Once this configuaration cha-cha is done, you should launch Sonar from the \'Sequencer\' shortcut icon on the GigaStudio toolbar. This will take care of interrupting the MIDI loop so that you can re-direct the MIDI messages from the port and channel assignments in Sonar.

4. You should now be able to load Gig files onto MIDI channels in GigaStudio and play those from your keyboard and sequencer as well as play audio tracks from Sonar.

**This will require that Audiophile users route one pair of their outputs through the S/PDIF output pair. If you need more pairs of analog audio outputs then a bigger sound card is what you need.

I hope the folks in this trhead find this information helpful. If after attempting this configuration and you still have trouble, please post and we\'ll try to get to the bottom of it.

Kevin

[Hypo]

Hi !!!

Well, I\'m also using the LETHAL combination - GigaStudio160, Delta1010 & Sonar 1.3.1 on AMD Athlon 1.33GHz ... The only difference is that until a few days ago I was using it under Win98, and I also had CRASHES every time I close the Software... I tried virtually everything but then Windows started crashing every time I start it, so when it became unstandable I decided to swich to WinXP Pro,... and searching the web I found this article, that made me even more desperate... So my question is : Is it possible to make this combination work, since I haven\'t even tried doing so, and if you had any luck I would appreciate it very much if you could contact me with ANY info preferably on my E-mail (hypothesis@mail.com)

(by the way I haven\'t downloaded the GStudio ver 2.5 because I can\'t get the code from Tascam.... they seem too busy)... I would try any experiment you suggest, and give you any info I get !!! THANX !!!!!