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Ultimate Audio Playback / Your thoughts about the Sound Quality / Re: Watch your stockings - 0.9z-8
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on: December 24, 2012, 06:32:16 pm
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Ok, quick question to others : is someone NOT seeing this problem ?
It should just work ...
Alain, is this the same message/error you talked about via PM ?
Notice that Bert's error tells that this happens when the Settings Area is selected.
Edit ... which is not really what Bert says. Hmm ...
Peter, No, the one mentionned in PM was happening before. I just thought it would be OK to ask first if you encountered somehing like that while testing with W8... Alain |
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Ultimate Audio Playback / Your thoughts about the Sound Quality / Re: Watch your stockings - 0.9z-8
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on: December 24, 2012, 05:59:10 pm
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I can't make it work... back to 9z-75 (see error).
The popup window normally showing what I should do during the install does not show, the error mesage comes instead.
Followed the Release Notes. Should I uninstall other things first or is this out of my hands?
Bert
Hopefully other people have more luck.
Mmmm... I have the same problem... Same screen (in French though). Can't make it work... |
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Ultimate Audio Playback / XXHighEnd Support / Re: SOTM PCI-e USB 3 controller card problem
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on: December 03, 2012, 12:32:39 pm
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I have been in contact with SOTM about that USB 3.0 card and they was anwering quickly.
But i bought a Buffalo card, a was affraid of getting the problems you have.
Tore
Hi Tore, I did not realize that this address was different. I see that it relates to the main Sotm website ? I will contact them. Thanks. Sorry for the confusion... For the moment, I would not recommend to buy it, because of this... Does the Buffalo card have something specific that you preferred to any other card (apart from the Sotm) ? Regards, Alain |
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Ultimate Audio Playback / XXHighEnd Support / Re: SOTM PCI-e USB 3 controller card problem
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on: December 03, 2012, 12:05:24 pm
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Hi Tore, Yes I have contacted Jesus (from Sonore US) with a description of my problem not long after I installed the card in my PC. He suggested I wait for Windows 8, since the USB 3.0 driver from Microsoft should cure the situation... But it did not. Do you have the Sotm USB PCIex in your system ? Thanks, Alain |
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Ultimate Audio Playback / XXHighEnd Support / Re: SOTM PCI-e USB 3 controller card problem
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on: December 02, 2012, 07:07:38 pm
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Peter, After installing W8, I tried again to connect the Sotm USB PCIex to my Audiophilleo2 to check if the bug I had with W7 was still there. It is  There is one thing I forgot to mention. I normally arrange not to mix different music formats because there are issues, so for this example, I use 16/44.1 music. I select an album and let it play. All works fine. At the end, it stops by itself - fine also. Then I select one song (or many, it does not make a difference, same format). The system restarts itself... This was the behavior I got with W7. Jesus (from Sonore) told me a few months ago that the USB 3.0 driver made by Microsoft (I did not have to install the TI driver with W8) would resolve this. Obviously it didn't. But I have an observation to make. Let's forget about the Sotm USB PCIex for a moment. When I play music, then I clear the playlist and start a new one (no matter how many songs selected, always same format), most of the times I have to kill the XXENGINE3 to allow the music to play. Could this be a partial explanation for my problem with the Sotm card ? Is there an adjustment I could do to ensure that the buffers are "empty" ("flushed") completely ? Is there something to investigate about this ? For the moment, I use the Sotm card for my external hard drive, but I feel that it's wasted money... Alain |
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Ultimate Audio Playback / XXHighEnd Support / Re: Heads up for Windows 8
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on: November 19, 2012, 01:40:04 pm
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No problem Peter and I understand that adding services or processes will not help what we are aiming for (this program I suggested is an example). With time, critices will leave the place for appraisals, but in the meantime, it can be a PITA to go back and forth between the 2 interfaces, where one of them is more oriented towards a touch screen from a tablet than an headless desktop controlled through another PC. Add to this that now we have to learn shortcut keys and then we have 2 different techniques to learn. This will not be accessible to every people. Sometimes I find making new presentations not to be very user friendly. For marketing purpose maybe it is good, but not for ergonomics. Isn't a product supposed to be easy... ? But enough of this. I know you have more important challenges to resolve  Thanks. Alain |
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Ultimate Audio Playback / XXHighEnd Support / Re: Heads up for Windows 8
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on: November 19, 2012, 09:24:15 am
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PS: Why don't you make a dual boot of it all ?
I could but when I normally switch from one OS to another, I generally do not go back, unless there are too many problems. At the present time I am quite satisfied with the SQ I have with W8 now that I have it activated and working. For the moment  Alain |
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Ultimate Audio Playback / XXHighEnd Support / Re: Heads up for Windows 8
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on: November 19, 2012, 01:33:36 am
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1.5 hours further ...
The dongle you have allows for working without additional drivers in Windows 8 ...
With a LOT of hassle I managed to pair with my W8 Consumer Preview laptop; I can't repeat what I all did, but one of the culprits is that on the W8 RTM machine there's this 2 second popup in the upper right corner to "tap there" in order to obtain the connection (or pairing). And without notice you are too late to ever tap that. What's also confusing is that sometimes (or a first time only) you will be reverted to the Metro desktop and have to proceed from there, while in other situations you are allowed to remain in the Change Adapter Settings screen as we are used to.
Then a pairing number may appear but it won't on the laptop, and *that* I think was caused because the laptop needed a reboot first.
Anyway, at last I managed, until my laptop gave up (it shut down) right after the pairing; this is because the USB ports have worn out or something (this is something I already knew).
At this stage I gave up. But it sure looks like it can work with the standard provided drivers now.
Whether it is too wacky to keep consistently running after a connection is made, is something else. I mean, I read enough issues with Bluetooth about this.
A driver for Windows 8 which officially come with the dongles seem not to exist ... "But it should work" is what is said. well, that not.
Peter
Well yes, W8 installs a driver for the bluetooth, but I can't connect with RDC... On the music pc (the distant computer), there is no "Control" choice where we could authorize some more options.. And the choices I see from the calling PC under "Control" are less than they were before... For sure the executable that we have for W7 is much more complete than the driver installed with W8. For the moment, I use ThightVNC to get more familiar with the differences, even if it means "trouble" I will report anything that could be useful... Well I hope it will be Thanks and regards, Alain |
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Ultimate Audio Playback / XXHighEnd Support / Re: Heads up for Windows 8
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on: November 19, 2012, 01:27:32 am
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Ya well eh, uhm ... Alain,
Since I tend to solve everything, I figured to post in real time fashion what to do. This is how the two "Tutorial" topics emerged. But then I got stuck on the NOS1 driver, which was totally unexpected. Similar, I guess, for the Bluetooth driver. Why ? I have NO clue. There shouldn't be any reason. But ...
It must be quite frustrating having to redo things that were perfectly working before. I am with you on this... When Vista came about I got crazy from it for many months. You out there never noticed because it was solved by the way XXHighEnd is fired (and that includes the UAC thing again), but inherently this is all still the same : you can't drag files from lower rights applications to higher rights applications. I didn't notice your culprit yet (I just didn't try), but that will be it. So, when you apply all as you did before, it now must be so that XXHighEnd has higher rights than an Explorer instance. Possibly this can be solved by starting Explorer as Administrator.
I have to admit that I also tried this with the administrator user, but I got the same problem... About shutting up Windows from an RDC connection under W7 ... how did you do that ? I don't think I could ever do that. Not with normal RDC. Reboot yes - through XXHighEnd. I can assure you that it is possible with W7 (not W8) to shutdown... I am sorry I have removed W7 for W8, otherwise I would have taken a snapshot of the option... My memory is not that good, but the option right over the power button that only allows "Disconnect" through RDC in the start menu triggers a screen where the power button has more choices... Let me know if you don't find it, I will restore W7 to show... Regards, Alain |
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Ultimate Audio Playback / XXHighEnd Support / Re: Heads up for Windows 8
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on: November 17, 2012, 10:06:15 pm
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Hi Peter, I have tried Windows 8 again to see how I would be able to make it work with XXHE. This time, with your help, I was able to get rid of the annoying message mentioning that the UAC was not OK (I applied the hack in the registry, as suggested). After this, I was unable to drag and drop songs in XXHE, but finally could... By pressing the user predefined adjustments (that were empty, since I don't use them). What sequence ? I don't know, but I did this repeatedly and it works... I don't have a clue how to shutdown or restart the music PC while using RDC ? There was a way with W7, but not this time. If I use another piece of software (like Thightvnc), then I can. I can't install the bluetooth software = compatibility problem. I tried compatibility mode for Windows 7, Vista SP2, Vista SP1, even XP... No way to install it... I have not tried it this time, but I remember that minimizing the OS was giving a blank screen (no display after reboot), so I did not attempt to go this far for now... So this is where I am at the moment. The sound is good, the latency seems naturally better than with W7, so it looks very promising Regards, Alain |
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Ultimate Audio Playback / XXHighEnd Support / Re: Heads up for Windows 8
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on: November 17, 2012, 03:23:24 pm
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Hi Peter, This is quite encouraging I tried a few times, but after facing some problems and being unable to overcome them, I reverted to Windows 7. Now that I read (yes, I read ha ha !) about your instructions to access Windows 8 wonders, I am telling myself that this could be the time to try again Alain |
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