Rapture crashing 3 separate 64 bit win 7 computers

depends on info you haven't given.

asio / wdm ?

enough buffers ?

you updated the version of rapture to the latest not so long ago?


rapture works for me in win 7-64.. my sound card drivers are bad though.

installed my emu 1820m cards in the second gateway with emus vista 64 drivers, which everyone says work fine in win7 and this crashed too....

I can't really help you with your Rapture issue, but I can tell you that E-MU's x64 drivers are a little short of "fine" when used with the 1820m on Win7. Both the original x64 Vista drivers (which E-MU does not support on Win7), and the new x64 Win7 beta driver (which E-MU does not support for use with the 1820m ) result in occasional BSODs, calling out ha10kx2k.sys which is a Creative/E-MU driver file. BSODs are generally due to hardware/driver errors, and may be unrelated to your issue with SONAR shutting down when Rapture is loaded.

By the way, I just sent cakewalk the mini dumps to see if they can make sense of it.  Also, a few days ago I added a quality tripp-lite batter backup power conditioner to ensure good voltage regulation as I heard that many crashes are due to fluctuating voltages...and for half hour I was on cloud nine as every thing was going great until....crash crash crash...

Brundlefly... thanks for the info on the drivers; I still hope to use the 1820m in the new machine when I get the $$$ together but at least the Audio Kontrol seems to work if the 1820m doesn't work out.  Hope emu gets their drivers together as a lot of us love the 1820m!

Guess I'm the lone wolf having problems... plan to go ahead and load up the rest of my soft-synths throughout the week and start making music again to see if the 32-bit Rapture continues to work and/or no other problems crop up

I really appreciate your thoughts.  It's been really frustrating, brimming over with song ideas and dealing with the crashes!  You all are great!

bysbox1, thanks for your post... I felt I was alone in the Cakewalk universe!

Since my last post I got a nice email from cakewalk support, asking lots of questions, which I answered... 

Also, I found that if I totally uninstall all instances of rapture and just reinstall the 32 bit version it does not crash while running either 32 bit or 64 bit Sonar. I had to be very careful to ensure that everything got installed to the x86 Sonar 32bit file locations, which I think is important... they could improve the installation routine on this a bit as it seemed to want to install some parts to the 64bit program area.    This is now my way of operating... I've been using Rapture for days now, running Sonar 64bit with Rapture 32 bit only, crash free.  You might want to do this, as it is working just fine in this configuration.

I have also just placed an order with egghead for a well thought out list of high quality parts to build my own clean i7 based computer.  I spent weeks on this and it was time well spent.  My friend who owns a computer repair shop is going to put it together for me and after I break it in I'm going to return the HP to Costco... I so appreciate their 3 month warrenty and feel bad about all the returns but can't help but think... since many are fine with Rapture 64bit.... that it's those damn no-name cheap china knockoff motherboards and other parts in the mass produced machines!

The parts alone are costing me $1400 from new egg but I'm getting an i7950 out of the deal, a super quiet package, win7pro (no 16gig memory limit), and a totally clean install...

I hope my problems with Rapture 64 become history once I get the new rig up and running... I SO love Rapture and if it all works out ok, will let you all know... I guess it will prove/disprove the difficulty any synth designer has in trying to get a rock solid product together that works on all sorts of computer builds... 

This has been a real experience for me but while down I've written lots of new material, learned an awful lot about computers, and will hopefully end up with a trouble free rig that is far superior to the mass produced unit I am currently having trouble with...

Will let you all know....

thanks again for all your thoughts and ideas.  If all works out in the end, I'll post my parts list for the record.

Until yesterday I too had a problem with Rapture causing Sonar x64 to crash, even on the simplest of tracks (with an occasional blue screen too).

I'd just upgraded to Sonar 8.53 so assumed I had everything completely up-to-date, ready for x64 operations.

Turns out the existing Rapture plug-in, although supposed to work with 64-bit, never got updated with any of the content updates or software patches, and it was the cause of these crashes.

It might sound painfully obvious but my advice to people experiencing this crash is make sure you get the latest Rapture update from the website (even if you think everything else in your Sonar version should be up-to-date). http://www.cakewalk.com/support/kb/reader.aspx?ID=2007013167

Anyway, it worked for me! (Sorry windsurferx, appreciate you've already gone down this route) 

I have everything up to date and am still experiencing the occasional crash.
Sonar 8.5.3 64 bit, Rapture 1.2.2 (the 64 bit patch) etc.. 

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