I'm with you Tom, wasn't there a guy from Frontier,who was very helpful to us in the past? i think we need to try every avenue we can, seeing how they dont really care about us. this is a very nice piece of gear and i love mine, hate to have to sell it.

Yes, I would certainly contribute.  This is the only thing stopping me from making the move to 64-bit.

if it means that i will have working, STABLE drivers count me in, it would be a whole lot cheaper then going the RME+MCU route. It wouldnt shock me though if these chumps (tascam tech),wouldnt give up the code...we need something, and while others have stated that their machine works flawless, mine does not, and i want my 1200 bucks worth fixed!!!

Tom, yes, everything works for me in Windows 7 32-bit.  I admit using only a subset of the FW-1884's functions so I wouldn't be able to state what might not work.  And, I do suffer a BSOD every month or so, and the culprit points back to my firewire audio setup, best I can figure from reading the dumps and what is on various threads on the web.  But, I would say I'm OK day to day.

No Tom, im currently on Vista 32, 64 wasn't too stable and it gave me too many problems, slowed work flow, and i still get a sluggish jog wheel when i rewire another app. i understand the gamble, it was a gamble buying the darn thing...lol 

Dk i dont think we are fighting them, and trust me i want too!!! I just want what was promised, i may have to do what you did and move on...sigh.

Hey Tom,

please see my post on your above-referenced thread.

The helpful guy at Frontier was indeed Brian. I remember exchanging e-mails with him (of course Tascam would not answer so I then contacted Frontier) to tell him about the problem experienced with Win 64 and memory above 4GB. At the time it was not clear that the memory had a crucial role. Then I've discovered that by limiting this to 3.2GB (memory remap option in the bios), the problem disappeared. I informed Brian but in the meatime discovered that other manufacturer shared he similar issue, like  MOTU for example but they reacted rather quickly and upgraded their driver. Frontier could not do it until TASCAM was asking to do so... and it took TASCAM a long time! Fortunately, the guys at Frontier were already working...
Sorry for the long story, but bottom line is: upgrade to drivers 1.7. And if you want to further upgrade the drivers I'd think that 1.70 is a good basis, and that you should not wait for Tascam to do something, while Frontier may help.

All the best.