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kornflower
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This ought to be simple but ....
I have Cooledit (Pro.) and happy with it 'n all.
It ran quite well on Win98 SE and now I've just upgraded
(a mattet of must) to W2k Pro. The prog. behaves much as
it used to BUT, if I switch to a spectral view, the prog
will freeze at the first click of a mouse in the window.
W2k says the prog is "no longer responding" and I believe them.
The hardware has NOT changed except for the addition of a extra HD.
Any clues from anyone ? Thanks.....
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Dakota
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Does the freeze happen before or after the spectral display comes up?
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AndyH
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Is the video driver specified for that version of the OS?
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VoodooRadio
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| Posted - Tue Jul 29, 2003 5:09 pm |
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I'm guessing video driver also... 
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Makedon
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| kornflower wrote: | This ought to be simple but ....
I have Cooledit (Pro.) and happy with it 'n all.
It ran quite well on Win98 SE and now I've just upgraded
(a mattet of must) to W2k Pro. The prog. behaves much as
it used to BUT, if I switch to a spectral view, the prog
will freeze at the first click of a mouse in the window.
W2k says the prog is "no longer responding" and I believe them.
The hardware has NOT changed except for the addition of a extra HD.
Any clues from anyone ? Thanks..... |
It looks like you are running a very high band resolution, which puts a heavy load to your graphic card. Press F4, go to Spectrum and lower the resolution to, let's say 4096 bands and 90% window width. If this works fine then increase the resolution and see where is the limit.
Makedon
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kornflower
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| Posted - Tue Jul 29, 2003 11:20 pm |
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OK everyone.
So far I can confirm it's NOT a matter of video resolution
I've swapped from a Banshee card (16 Mb video) to a GeForce (64 Mb)
and the system will still freeze. I CAN play from a preset point if that point is "marked" before switching to the view. Any mouse click will still freeze it up tho'. Also, in Spectral View, the bands are only 32, and view 70% so I doubt it's a memory problem per se.
Might be the Logitech mouse? Can't see how.
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Dakota
Location: Spain
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| Posted - Wed Jul 30, 2003 3:51 am |
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Or possibly a bad install of CEP.
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kornflower
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| Posted - Wed Jul 30, 2003 8:31 pm |
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No, Dakota....
Somehow, after the 27th, or is it 43rd, install of CEP
I sort of get the feelin' that that's not quite the problem -)
I'll be switching it to a new machine sometime today
to see if I can reproduce a stable installation under W98
and then W2k
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MusicConductor
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| Posted - Thu Jul 31, 2003 9:13 am |
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Please keep us posted!
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kornflower
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| Posted - Thu Jul 31, 2003 7:24 pm |
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OK. Update.
Have a new PC. Installed Win98. CEP goes as always (good)
Installed W2k (with NTFS but THAT should have no effect)
- same hardware in both instances (Intel 2.4Gb CPU).
Installed CEP, program will still freeze with Spectral view
when a mouse is clicked to postion the cursor/song-pointer.
Categorically -
- NOT a video problem that I can see. It does it not
matter which set of video cards / drivers one uses.
- NOT a matter of W2k patches. The freeze happens on
raw W2k and after applying patches.
- NOT a matter of mouse software. Although Logitech updated
their drivers for W2k, it still happens for any of the drivers.
I s'pose I need to ask this question first.
Is anyone using CoolEdit Pro V1.0 without a problem on a W2k Pro OS?
Could it be that W2k has a problem with CEP the same as it has a problem with some types of "legacy" software (the Duke Nukem prob)?
Where do I go from here? To Syntrillium/Adobe? If so, what address?
Thanks for the suggestions so far.
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Dakota
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This still sounds like a hardware conflict. Could try a different mouse or remove the extra hard drive. Install the latest DirectX drivers. Look at everything in the Device Manager. Anything stand out? Do you have the same memory installed in the new computer? Maybe you have a bad module. Re-download Cool 2000 if you haven't done so already... You gotta play the guessin' game with shlt like this.
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Dakota
Location: Spain
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| Posted - Fri Aug 01, 2003 1:26 am |
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Oh, wait. You said CEP V 1.0. Can you still get the free upgrades?
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kornflower
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| Posted - Fri Aug 01, 2003 10:17 pm |
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Hi dakota.
Hard to see precisely what sort of hardware conflict it could be.
New PC - and I do mean new. New Mem (DDR). No other hard drive, "latest" directX (8.1). Etc. Different mice, different everything.
A pure and fresh installation of Win 98 with nothing else - it goes
A pure and fresh installation of Win 2k with nothing else - it don't
Update? You mean to CEP Pro 1.2 ? Yeah the upgrades are available still. Trouble is I can't get it to go. Downloaded it. Ran it.
Gets itself into a circular argument by wanting the original disk (which I supply)+ Pwd, completes the installation. Says I simply have to restart CE and all will be well - sure it is (not).
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jonrose
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Perhaps Steve will stop by here and comment - although I don't know if he currently has version 1.2a installed on his W2K machine - perhaps a good test to see if it will go!
I'm still running stripped-down W9x OSs here, so I can't comment directly - except, perhaps, to say that I've successfully had 1.2a running on W2K previously, during a two-month test-run (a long time ago). I had to go back to W9x, since W2K only supports 10 devices (at the time, I needed resources for 42).
Best... -Jon
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zemlin
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I ran 1.2a and 2.0 for quite a while on W2K without problems.
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VoodooRadio
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I doubt that it's causing the problem but... with Direct X (I don't know what version their up to now..) I use ver 8.0. I did upgrade to 8.1 when it first came out and experience weirdness and changed back. Just FYI! 
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