Beepster
I just don't understand, and perhaps you guys can fill me in, how it seems to be working so well for some folks and failing so spectacularly for others. I mean it's got its quirks and all but it's been running pretty smoothly here and I don't even know what the heck I'm doing. I just... don't get it. :-/
I don't get it either Beepster.
I was in the same boat with X1, it caused me untold headaches. I replaced hardware, software, reseated things, tried different AGP slots, 4 different video cards, 3 different audio cards, moved everything around in the USB slots, fresh installs with all updates, fresh installs without updates, checked house wiring for bad ground and dirty voltage, hooked up a $500 line filter, moved everything to different circuits in my house, sat my DAW on the carpet, off the carpet, replaced HDD's ... in the end ... none of it helped.
But now X2 seems to be running great on the very same DAW that X1 brought to it's knees ... and all along, just like they are doing to Timidi upstairs now, the exact same people said the exact same things to me that they are saying to him. It's you, it's your BIOS, it's your sound card, it's your sound card drivers, your motherboard, you updated this, you shouldn't have updated that, you used it between 1:30 and 1:37 on Sunday morning ... bull$hit! It was X1 all along.
Then there's the 'how serious do you take this and how much do you let it get to you' factor as well.
For example, there's one
idiot person upstairs that will argue with you until he and you are blue in the face that X1 worked perfectly on his system from day 1 of release. And we all know some things were flat out broken on day 1. Some things flat out did not work on any system anywhere. When you're dealing with people like that ... it makes things a lot worse.
I'm not going to doubt Timidi and blame his system for his problems because I've been through the
exact same thing, and in the end, a Cakewalk software update (X2) fixed it ...