I don't think I will buy EMU products again.
I definitely won't buy another EMU product again... ever.
At least they got around to making 1616m drivers, though it took FAR too long, and they're heavier than the previous drivers with lower performance capabilities on my system (in XP and Vista).
The dropping of planned and announced Vista updates to the Proteus X line is also disappointing, as is the restriction on EMU hardware for such an inexpensive plugin. The only way to get around the hardware restriction going forward is upgrade to Emulator at significant expense.
Bummer too, I'd likely have paid for an upgrade to a Vista-ready version of Proteus X, particularly if they'd given it the proper 64-bit capabilities like Emulator got. Instead, it appears that the Proteus X line is actually over... just Emulator going forward.
Whatever driver you have for your interface will not affect the fact that there is no Vista driver for Porteus X and LE
Keep in mind that there are 3 things that have to work to be able to use Proteus X:
- the 1616m has to have drivers for vista
- the cdillo copy protection service has to be running in vista
- proteus x has to install and start properly on vista
The 1616m vista drivers and associated copy protection service have been ported, and as long as the OP has the 2.0 version of the drivers, he should be good there.
My guess is that Proteus X LE is just flaky on Vista, or can't talk to the copy protection service on Vista, or something like that. If it doesn't think you have EMU hardware, it won't start.
- zevo