‘initializing audio drivers’ bug

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‘initializing audio drivers’ bug

Posted by John Matchett on June 3, 2009 at 4:02 pm

Hi Folks,

My apologies for adding a “me too” thread, but the copy on Vegas 8.0c (build 260) on my XP workstation has suddenly gone unstable . This is especially odd because it’s always been rock-steady.

On loading I get the normal splash screen, then it freezes on “Initializing audio drivers”. I see this issue has been batted about a bit on this forum and others, but I’ve not seen a definitive answer to the problem – anyone have one?

Here’s the curious thing: I uninstall the whole program, registry clean and manually remove the remaining folders in the Documents & Settings folder. Shut-down, do another registry sweep then install the program. All goes fine, initializes saying “Creating audio drivers” (sic) and works fine. Once. Then it’s back to the beginning.

I’ve just downloaded Vegas v8.1 so I’ll give that a pop, but otherwise any ideas gratefully received. Recent additions on my system are Adobe Photoshop CS4 (unstable as hell, so they can keep it for a while!) Microsoft IE 8 and the latest ATI video drivers which I installed in an attempt to stop CS4 falling over…

Thanks,

JM

Steve Rhoden replied 16 years, 11 months ago 2 Members · 4 Replies
4 Replies

Steve Rhoden
June 3, 2009 at 5:36 pm

What was the last thing you installed on your pc
before Vegas started acting up?
The problem seems that Vegas is conflicting with your
audio drivers, so instead of going thru all the uninstalling
of vegas and what not…..check out what audio drivers or
configurations you may have recently altered.

Steve Rhoden
(Cow Leader)
Creative Arts Director and Film Maker.
Project Samples at:
http://www.youtube.com/hentys
John Matchett
June 4, 2009 at 10:48 am

Hi Steve,

Thanks for getting back about this.

I’ve been trying to figure out what’s caused the problem but without much luck. The last restore point that wants to play ball is still showing the same problem. I’m not sure how to identify the offending audio driver glitch – nothing shows flagged in my system and the machine will play music quite happily through Window Media Player, so there are clearly drivers in there working OK at some level.

The machine this is happening on is a DELL Precision 670 – so I’ve been on their site to download the integrated sound drivers; still no joy.

Any suggestions of how to track this problem down?

Regards,

JM
John Matchett
June 4, 2009 at 2:44 pm

Hi Steve(et al),

If anyone picks up this thread I’ve spent nearly a day trying to sort this out. Clearly a common issue, there may be lots of different causes but I’ve found a solution that worked for me – so here it is:

Firstly, Sony are obviously aware of this issue and there’s a detailed answer from the horses mouth here:

https://www.custcenter.com/cgi-bin/sonypictures.cfg/php/enduser/prnt_adp.php?p_faqid=1382&p_created=1147269571&p_sid=Sx-CSvzj&p_redirect=&p_li=

Sadly however none of this worked for me, but at least it’s kept me in a derkened room with a PC all day – at least I won’t have been prematurely aged by the UV from the beautiful sunny day outside!

The cure turned out to be simple: Download Vegas Pro 9.0 – it loads perfectly and runs fine. If you alreday have 8.0 the upgrade cost is worth it just to save you the hassle.

Cheers,

JM
Steve Rhoden
June 4, 2009 at 4:48 pm

Well, glad you got that sorted out–>in a way….lol
Still Vegas Pro 9 is certainly worth the investment.

Steve Rhoden
(Cow Leader)
Creative Arts Director and Film Maker.
Project Samples at:
http://www.youtube.com/hentys

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