BauerMECH
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White-Screen & freeze-up?
Hi. Real quick... Haven't done much recording since my Cakewalk Pro Audio 9 and Layla days. Basically, I recently came back into this as a favor for a friend who wanted to lay some tracks for a quick demo. I snagged a UA-1G and installed the included Sonar LE. Great! recording went smoothly. I experienced no issues with LE (nor with the other apps I was demo/testing) and looking at X1 Studio, I noticed it had some features I was missing. Coupling that with the "reduced price offer" I received via e-mail, figured the move would be worth it.
Installation of X1 Studio and hardware setup was cake (I think/thought). However, I am now consistently get a transparent, white-ish/pale gray-colored, overlay on the screen 5 to 10 minutes into start-up and soon-after it completely freezes - requiring a forced shutdown. Back at the Desktop I have to pull and reconnect the USB sound card. Then, restart the app before I can get the audio hardware to function in X1. Seems to only be X1 specific as I get I/O everywhere else (including LE) without the hardware removal process. I am running Intel i7 2720QM, 6Gig RAM, Win7 64, X1 Sudio, Roland/Cakewalk UA-1G. In my case, mobility is required, thus the laptop.
Doing a search on this forum, I couldn't really find any one else experiencing a related bug, so I'm guessing it may be user error? Either way, would someone point me in the right direction, or perhaps share some advice that could remedy my issue? I had a taste of X1 and it would be ever-so disappointing to not be able to indulge in its use again.
Thanks.
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lorneyb2
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Re:White-Screen & freeze-up?
2011/07/16 16:47:12
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Have you updated and applied all the quick fix downloads?
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BauerMECH
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Re:White-Screen & freeze-up?
2011/07/16 18:58:20
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Yes I have. aPatch, bPatch, and the b255 are installed. I can literally let the thing sit open &
untouched and it will eventually freeze.
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digi2ns
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Re:White-Screen & freeze-up?
2011/07/16 21:26:46
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Ive had this before a few times. For me if I remember correctly there were things in the background trying to run tying up memory and causing it to fault out like that. I caught it when it did it in Task manager and was able to go in and disable. Are you getting the a fault window?
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BauerMECH
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Re:White-Screen & freeze-up?
2011/07/16 23:13:45
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Thanks Mike. I'll start nixing background processes and see what that does. Maybe a dual boot having one dedicated to X1?
Unfortunate that this app appears to run like Shaquille plays…. comes in with flailing elbows, clearing out anything occupying that center. Rather rude way to play if you ask me. How is it that Pro Audio 9 worked so well on my old MMX processor, 512 meg of RAM, Win 98 machine and X1 lags on my new quad core system? Does all this eye candy really get in the way that much, or is it perhaps the result of an increase in loose coding practices? I guess I'm not seeing the benefit of return for the trade-off in resources. Eh, I could be way off here. I'll try some things and see what happens. Thanks again.
post edited by BauerMECH - 2011/07/16 23:16:00
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Bub 
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Re:White-Screen & freeze-up?
2011/07/16 23:34:56
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There's a lot of optimization that needs to be done to your PC to make it DAW friendly. One example ... nothing should be running in the background such as anti-virus, task scheduler etc. Make sure you have the latest sound card driver and video card driver as well. X1 is very graphics intense. It's recommended that your video card have 1GB RAM on it. Click here. It's a link to a thread I started about tweaking your PC for DAW usage. Post #3 and #8 have the links to help files and walkthrough's.
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BauerMECH
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Re:White-Screen & freeze-up?
2011/07/17 22:47:46
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Thanks Bub. Some of those suggestions did help. I actually do a lot of video editing (real-time AVCHD 1920x1080 with layered effects) on the same machine. I forget that these video editors kinda' cheat ...in that when the machine begins to bog, it'll drop a few frames and no one's the wiser. Nothing really matters until post compilation. But you can't afford such luxuries when recording live audio I guess.
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