lsass is the most nasty thing for I/O's you don't want. So far I would not know how to shut that off (for its I/O's), althoug I dove into that for a couple of hours only, a while ago), and I was hoping that just this went away with SP1.

When you kill lsass, your PC will reboot ...

The separately uploaded XXEngine3 was dedicated to Scheme-3;
0.9u-14a works with all the Schemes (and thus incorporates a newer version of XXEngine3, which you can see by the date it carries).

I hope we understand eachother ...

Hmm ... I am playing with 0.9u-14a since it is there, Appointment = 2, and at least I never had a problem anymore.
I must say though that in 75% of cases I played with Q1 = 14.

Well, if you can find a pattern I'll be happy to dive into it again.


In 0.9u-14 that new XXEngine3 is incorporated. But I guess that's what you were saying ? (hence don't copy that separately uploaded XXEngine3 over it ! the latest is working a tad differently again to this matter !).

Leo, did my PM help you ?

Hi KUOYAO,

Thank you for your nice words. But might you be able to get Vista ... that is way better for SQ (by means of Engine#3).


This is interesting by itself. I never heard of this so far, and should not be so of course.
On another note I would say that when all other sounds and stuff are disabled, there would no other device be left to select, and the device you want to use for playback is the only one, hence is primary. I must honestly say though, that I forgot a bit how things in XP work.
Anyway, are you sure you actually *disabled* all other sound devices ?


Sadly, no. The way Engine#1 is working does not allow files larger than 64MB to be played. This is an XP limitation.
This is why Engine#2 was created, but Engine#2 has the limitation of not being able to change the sound device.
(and for others : Engine#3 does allow to change the sound device, but I just did not make this yet since this is somehwat harder to do in the environment concerned).

On the crackles ... I don't know which soundcard you use (but please tell me), and possibly you can get the latest drivers and then it works better ?

IIRC nobody ever reported crackles with XP (hence Engine#1 or #2), although by now nearly everybody is on Vista. But anyway, this should theoretically tell this is something special in your system. Maybe you can think of something "special" yourself ?

Peter

Hi Gerard,

I moved this from "Interesting music / Test material" to Chatter. Even that might be a strange place for this.

I don't get what you want with it ...



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That could be a reson I think. I did no try it though.

Hi,

This looks like you are using Engine#1, and with the longer than 6 minutes tracks this will turn into Engine#2 (in red !) automatically.
Is this right ?

If so ... Engine#2 (and Engine#3 btw) requires that your sound device is set as the Primary Sound Device.

Does that help you ?

Peter

And what if you create a new XX folder ?

Yes. This is similar to the aero and all other stuff which is often referred to. I don't say I hear it, but I just know similar things happen as what changes sound in the program. But it's okay, I'll do it (and some MUCH more convenient stuff).

Hi Gerard,

Did you ever send anything ? I sure did not notice it ...

If you did not put this XXEngine3.zip over 0.9u-14, this happens ...

Edit : Reading this back, I really can't think of why I said this. Please let this not inspire you (all) to put the XXEngine3.zip over the one coming from 0.9u-14.

But Gerard, I may have said it before ... you are bugged by something else. This is not about cracks throughout the tracks, this is about track boundaries.
Sorry ...

That is very easy to do Andrey, but keep in mind please that it still will influence. But I will make it.

Peter

For those who were bothered by this, would you care to try the below version of XXEngine3.exe and report please ?

Put the current XXEngine3.exe in your XX folder aside, and replace it with the one in the zip below.
Thanks,
Peter

Edit : Removed the zip, while results are known from it by now, and it can create confusement (merely created by myself in other posts).