Go to Control panel, Device Manager. Select the IEEE 1394 device that is your firewire card and look at the Properties. Update drivers. Select the one that says "(legacy)" at the end.

Guy I will follow the post but I dont think I can help you, nothing personal !!

riojazz


Go to Control panel, Device Manager. Select the IEEE 1394 device that is your firewire card and look at the Properties. Update drivers. Select the one that says "(legacy)" at the end.

Thanks, riojazz.
I found two IEEE 1394 controllers, each listed as "Texas Instruments 1394 OHCI Compliant Host Controller"
I checked the properties and did the update drivers on both and, in both cases, Windows was satisfied that I have the latest driver.
No sign of "Legacy" anywhere...
BTW: I think my motherboard is a Gigabyte UltraPower 3...

That's good you have TI-based firewire. If you update the drivers, you should see the legacy choice. The point here is NOT to use the latest driver.

I've gone from XP 32bit (3.5gb ram) to Win 64bit 8gb ram on the same system.  And am starting to get pops/clicks.  Granted its only when using 10ms or below latency ASIO but never notice pops before.  Would just dropout when maxed out.

Havent made large project yet on new setup but I sure hope I don't suffer this pain.


Asus P5k 2.7ghz dualcore. 8gb ram. Nvidia Geforce 7300. Emu 0404. Audio only Sata.

riojazz


That's good you have TI-based firewire. If you update the drivers, you should see the legacy choice. The point here is NOT to use the latest driver.

I did not appreciate that I should select the "Browse my PC" option.
When I did that and specified my C: drive, I found the Legacy option and slected it for both controllers.

And, did it help?

I have found that the major issue with latency on my system was the video driver.


I tried various newer and older versions as well as the different Firewire drivers and audio drivers and have come up with rather good results.


I have sample rate set to 48K and buffers set to 256 samples and I see this running an empty project:

riojazz


And, did it help?

As I indicated in my OP, my crackles and pops had already gone away before I posted.
I'm just following your advice to use the Legacy version anyway.
I have so far had no negative results from this last change and, if I do, I now know how to go back.
Thanks.

guylemec

BTW: I think my motherboard is a Gigabyte UltraPower 3...

This should read: Gigabyte Ultra Durable 3