Delta66 with Windows 8?

No Win8 updates for it? 

I'd say BSODs don't really qualify as working OK. That's kind of like one of the worst things that can happen.

Can you roll back to 7 until the manufacturers catch up to 8 with their drivers?

I too have a Delta 44 and it works fine in Win8 using the latest Win7 drivers.

Yeah... something else is screwing up. Maybe some of your other computer components need driver updates (BIOS, etc...) or a hard drive is failing. I'm not good at in depth system troubleshooting like that but look around online for tutorials on how to go about it. Tom's Hardware and New Egg have good info for stuff like that on their websites. I think the guys at StudioCat and ADK might offer tech support for a small fee as well... of course you could also get a hold of Cakewalk tech support but seeing as how you are overseas it'd be a costly phone call and they aren't the greatest at replying to emails. You could send them all your details, get the support ticket then call them referencing the ticket number just to get some eyes on it then ask them to email you their opinion. 

Cheers.

I have dropped my 1010 as M-Audio's drivers are just a nightmare....Ranging from SONARDPR.EXE not being able to be killed to BSODS.

Nasty M-Audio.

Anyone wants to buy a Delta 1010 thats less than a year old then PM me.

I have switched to an MOTU Audio Express and it works like a charm in Win 8 on Sonar X2.

Beepster


Wait... is the 66 a legacy PCI device? I had problems with my Echo card because of that and bridged as opposed to native PCI support. Maybe the update just pushed it closer to obsolescence. They do sell PCI to PCIe adapters now but that is less than ideal... especially for audio.

Just a thought.

I'm pretty sure it's "legacy PCI". I've got a Asus Z77 chipset motherboard, and it doesn't really have anything to configure for the "legacy" PCI slots. The Delta66 "works" ie there are no dropouts/clicks etc. It's just these occasional BSODs.
 
I reinstalled the MIDI drivers today - so I'll see how that goes. I'd hate to replace the soundcard - and have the problem still unchanged.
 
Of course - there are lads of variables. I upgraded the PC in June, then X2 in September, then Win 8 in October - but I'm pretty sure the problem started with Windows 8.
 
If the crashes still come after reinstalling the MIDI drivers, I'm going to:
- try a bigger buffer size (I always used 256 samples on the old motherboard, now it's 128)
- then think about replacing the Delta
 
As I said - it's only once in a while it crashes, so it takes a while before I know if a change has "fixed it", but I'll get there... ;-)
 
 
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I made a mental note to look at that MOTU audio interface - although I'd prefer to try a PCIe one if I do change
 

Oh and I managed to get my PCI based Echo card to work better after optimizing my system for audio so that might be something to look into. Not sure if that would cause BSODs. I just had a lot of dropouts and crashes until I fixed it. I bought a Focusrite Scarlett though just to make sure I wouldn't run into anymore problems.

Good luck.

Was the BIOS on the motherboard updated?

Yeah - I've got the latest BIOS.
 

 IOW the updates to Windows 8 seem to have resolved the problem.

yet another variable
 
Thanks for all the ideas though - everybody. It's working great today (mind you it's strictly audio now - everything has been bounced). It will probably be some strange sequence of events that causes the crash - such as:
 
- on a Monday or Thursday
- hit the "e" key
- loop from measure 34 - 59
- zoom in slightly
- load a compressor
 
"this exact sequence of events - in this order..."
 

The OP had a Gary screen of death?

You might want to download a program called "Who Crashed"

Thanks - I'll try it out...
 
 

The OP had a Gary screen of death?

Nice catch! I didn't mean to name my screens of death - I meant *gray* The new improved Windows 8 GSOD
 
 
 

trying to keep our hardware up todate with our software. And when we do get t to work, enjoy it.

until we update something again....
 
 
PS - I'm starting to suspect the MIDI interface driver now - as I've been doing audio only (everything is bounced) work for the last few days - and it's running like a charm. Of course - it could always go a week or two without a crash anyway...