8.5.3 on old XP laptop with Presonus 22vsl crackles and more

Hi Gang...

Just me again... Currently trying to make an old laptop useful to me while I have no electric...

Both the cup and drive meters are running evenly in the 15% range.

Using the WDM driver, I get crackles, pops, and bits of distortion no matter how high I raise the latency with as little as a single stereo audio track trying to playback... Media player plays the same file with no problem...?

This is running at 44.1...

I try to switch to ASIO hoping it's better suited as I believe the Presonus ASIO driver has always been "better" than their WDM...

All other settings remain the same...

Close sonar

I open the 22vsl's panel and I have it set to 44.1 512 on the ASIO...

Then I re-open Sonar and start a new file
I import a 44.1 stereo file to the empty audio track

When I hit play I get a warning that the settings are incompatible...

I double check the Sonar settings and all is correctly showing ASIO and 44.1
I open th 22vsl app and I see it has been switched to 96
Repeatedly resetting this to 44.1 as I continue to get the same message and find the ASIO app keeps resetting to 96... No matter what sequence of open/set/close I attempt...

So I tried setting the sample rate in Sonar to 96k which appears to be supported when the wav profiler runs for WDM and I continue to get incompatible settings warning and no playback.

Switching back to WDM works but with the above mentioned WDM issues...

What am I missing? I know that XP is old, but I'm using the driver that Presonus offers for XP...

I am grateful for any thoughts you care to offer... Yes, buy things or get my electricity on would solve it as I could return to the land of humans. Too bad being broke is a quantum step UP from where I am right now and I seriously need to get my head immersed in some music and away from reality before I go over the edge! ;-)

Thanks...
Keni

dubdisciple
shot in the dark, but make sure you disable the wireless adapter.  It typically causes ridiculous amounts of latency

Thanks dubdisciple...

I'll try it, but this doesn't appear to be latency related as it doesn't change regardless of how high I set the latency...

But it's worth a try!

Keni