VISTA - Don't You Love It?

[runawaymartin]

Hi Everyone . . . . I'm having an ongoing problem in running SCS with VISTA. Up until now I've very successfully run SCS on a laptop with XP using an ESI Quatafire audio interface giving me 8 discreet outputs. In order to have a back-up I bought a new laptop which unfortunately came installed with VISTA and even though I installed the appropriate driver, SCS would not run correctly. The support from ESI was particularly bad (actuially nil) and after much testing and gnashing of teeth I began to think that the driver for the Quatafire was to blame.
I've now just purchased a new box from M-Audio called the ProFire 610 . . . as the name implies it's another firewire device.
I've installed the driver on both the XP and VISTA laptop . . . the XP machine worked instantly and flawlessly, however the VISTA machine exhibited the same problems as with the Quatafire.
It appears that only the first two of the eight outputs will send out a signal . . . if I try to play a sub-cue that is directed to any of the others I come up with a message saying
"File C:\SCS FOREVER EVERLY\Pretty Flamingo - Lead Gtr.wav: Unavailable speaker" . . . . The same message comes up with any sub-cue not directed to output 1/2.
I've optimised the laptop for audio playback and have selected "Do NOT use SCS internal mixer" as a permanent option.
If anyone is running SCS with VISTA using a multi-output device I would love to hear from you . . . . settings/device etc!!!!
Cheers . . . Martin

[jamsession]

std troubleshooting stuff.......

1) Outside of SCS, can you play any sound to the other outputs?
if so, driver is probably working ok, and might be a cfg matter inside of SCS?
if no, then might be a driver or vista settings issue

2) Perhaps check with M-audio tech support? They are good

3) Use XP

Cheers

[Eric Snodgrass]

Martin, I have no advice for your specific situation, but I do want you to know that I have been running SCS Professional on an off-the-shelf Compaq desktop loaded with Vista Home Basic and an M-Audio Delta 1010LT card without a hiccup. It's done four shows in the past year, with each show run no less than six weeks. The only issue I had is in the "To Pre-Load..." thread just a bit down from this one, and that had nothing to do with Vista. By the way, the Compaq is a quite-inexpensive desktop that has not had any sort of major optimizing for audio playback - it's pretty much the stock computer. The Vista OS is updated every few months, when the computer is not busy on a run of a show.