There is no point in downloading the product again if the current files match the posted md5 hash values.

Anderton
Studio vs. Producer should not be an issue...same basic program, same core features. What does device manager show for sound, video, and game controllers? Don't give up, it has to be something simple which may be why it's so elusive. Mentioning graphical nightmares with FL Studio raises a warning flag...

The graphical nightmares are only in the beta FL 12 is currently in open beta with a completely new GUI ive been testing and it has many problems but thats what testing is for and i'm happy to do it,just not when im trying to work on a track im serious about completing,Fl 11 is solid never had an issue since second update from release.
im not giving up just yet everything fl lacks sonar has and vice versa i want it to work,i want producer x3 for the full prochannel features but i'm not gonna risk the money till this gets solved.im currently backing up my recent projects in sonar and downloading a fresh copy of studio x3 im going to wipe all traces of cakewalk down to the last registry in the registry editor and re install the whole thing,all externals will be unpluged except my keyboard and mouse my computer will be offline all firewalls disabled im not going to leave a single chance somthing with this install could go wrong,but if it dosnt fix this im gana be so pissed because i just wasted nearly another whole day just searching and trying different settings to get this to work.
 
Thanks everyone whos trying to help though,im gana try this if it doesn't work ill get ahold of tech support and hopefully they have a solution,but only if all fails then ill say good bye to cakewalk,not done quite yet.
 

 
Have you tried running X3 as Administrator ?
 
Are you installing as Administrator ?
 

Paul P
 
Have you tried running X3 as Administrator ?
 
Are you installing as Administrator ?
 

yes,that was on my list of first things to try when i first experienced this problem

Anderton
Now that it's working, I would highly recommend X3e. You can always set a system restore point prior to upgrading, just in case.

Thats a cool idea thanks :)

There are a lot of weird problems that have happened due to Visual Basic libraries not being installed or being overwritten by other ones. I think it's highly likely that with real-time interaction with someone from tech support, they'll be able to get things working.

Craig, did you mean visual basic or c++?

Well finally i got in touch with support,unfortunately X3 studio is still down for me,atleast anything to do prochannel wise,ive gone to far lengths to get sonar working as it supposed to but its all been in vain.ill wait and try the new demo see if the problem persists in the new sonar.if so ill be seeing my way out.thanks again for all the help to all that posted,really wished i could get this working,lord knows i tried.
 
~regards~  

ok ive tried these steps and still didn't help,but i did find out something interesting.i open a empty sonar project,no vsts,no audio,no tracks nothing at all.my cpu is at 1% if i add a prochannel module it jumps to a steady 16% for just one prochannel module.what could this mean?

Solid state drives don't have this issue,its one of there benefits you can use the last megabyte without read speed being affected noticably,also the entire program would cause a problem that being the case,this only concerns using anything related to prochannel which end up affecting the whole program...
   Im still trying tho,the tech support is trying to figure it out with me.if once its solved ill post all the results that lead to the remedy so in case of other's running into the same issue they wont have all the trouble im having.

JonD
Have you tried a complete uninstall/reinstall of Sonar?  (And I mean completely clean uninstall - deleting any residual folders and registry entries).
 
Also, make sure you "Run as Administrator" both when doing the install and starting the program.
 

Many times now...ive un installed my entire software collection including all folders and registries completely wiped out till only the OS remained,with still the same results.