Did you run the install with Run As Administrator?
 
Bob Bone
 

robert_e_bone
Did you run the install with Run As Administrator?
 
Bob Bone
 

I'll see if I can give it a go. I don't think you can actually get to the setup.exe and bin files after they're unpacked into the temp directory unless you copy them out of there before cancelling setup when it starts automatically after the four parts are finished expanding. When you cancel it deletes the setup files from temp. And I don't think running part1.exe as admin carries over to setup.exe once they're all unpacked (two separate programs). I'll figure it out and let you know.

Still no luck after running setup as admin. It was worth a try, and now at least I have the uncompressed X3 setup files so I can skip the four packed files if I need to do it again.

you have to do a custom install.
use your sonar X2 installation and re install but only session drummer 3 (untick everything else)
 
before you do this, back up session drummer and all its content, then delete the folder with session drummers vst / content.
 
first you might want to do a rescan of plug ins.
 
this has happen to me and it worked, no problems.

chuckebaby
you have to do a custom install.
use your sonar X2 installation and re install but only session drummer 3 (untick everything else)
 
before you do this, back up session drummer and all its content, then delete the folder with session drummers vst / content.
 
first you might want to do a rescan of plug ins.
 
this has happen to me and it worked, no problems.

That's what I said I did in post 20.

 
no, you mentioned you tried the install/re-install, you didn't mention you deleted all SD3 content + vst.
 
the same exact thing happen to me, rescanned / plug in was gone. I did what I mentioned before and it was back no problem, im using it now.
 
good luck with it.
 

Actually, that did work, Chuckebaby.

chuckebaby
 
no, you mentioned you tried the install/re-install, you didn't mention you deleted all SD3 content + vst.
 
the same exact thing happen to me, rescanned / plug in was gone. I did what I mentioned before and it was back no problem, im using it now.
 
good luck with it.
 

I didn't go into all the details, but yeah I deleted the folder (and even tried deleting registry keys when deleting the folder alone didn't work). There are quite a few threads about this here and on other forums going back several years with different versions of Sonar and SD, and I went through most of them. The main thing I found out is that the various solutions some people have found don't work for everyone. Definitely weird. It may even be specific to Windows 8.1 and X3c in my case. Who knows. But I'll keep trying for a while longer. I actually can't remember the last time I couldn't figure something out that should be fixable (and that's 20 years using Cake stuff). I refuse to be defeated. :-)


 

This problem looks identical to something I was helping tech support to diagnose last week with another customer.
It appears that on some systems Session drummer fails to load because some dependencies are missing. (A DLL will not load unless all its dependencies are available)  
To troubleshoot this download the Dependency Walker tool from here. http://www.dependencywalker.com
Make sure you install the right 32/64 bit flavor for your system.
Then run dependency walker and open the Session Drummer DLL that is failing to scan. If there is a problem with dependencies you will see an error message. If this happens from the file menu save it as a dependency walkler log file and send it to us or link to it here. 
 
If you scroll through the list you should be able to see which dependency is reported as missing. Once you know that it should be possible to reinstall that. Most likely its a microsoft redistributable that somehow didn't install or got uninstalled.

Noel Borthwick [Cakewalk]
This problem looks identical to something I was helping tech support to diagnose last week with another customer.
It appears that on some systems Session drummer fails to load because some dependencies are missing. (A DLL will not load unless all its dependencies are available)  
To troubleshoot this download the Dependency Walker tool from here. http://www.dependencywalker.com
Make sure you install the right 32/64 bit flavor for your system.
Then run dependency walker and open the Session Drummer DLL that is failing to scan. If there is a problem with dependencies you will see an error message. If this happens from the file menu save it as a dependency walkler log file and send it to us or link to it here. 
 
If you scroll through the list you should be able to see which dependency is reported as missing. Once you know that it should be possible to reinstall that. Most likely its a microsoft redistributable that somehow didn't install or got uninstalled.

Thanks Noel. There are definitely problems according to Dependency Walker. Here's a link to the file:
 
https://drive.google.com/...NSdlE/edit?usp=sharing