Engine #3 & Vista: No sound

[Abstraction]

Okay, here is something that might get somewhere:

When I run the DAC test, it says that the DAC does not
support 44.1k or 48k at 16, 24, or 32 bits.

But the Off-Ramp/Timbre combo supports 44.1k @ 24 bits in
 test from the control panel works with those values.

[SeVeReD]

How about creating a partician for Vista on the dual core laptop?  I don't know for sure... but your celeron machine sounds like it has some issues (which could be anything from power supply to hardware drivers to ???).  My former front end was a single core laptop that came with XP... I bought and loaded Vista and played XXHE on that for a long while. (new dual core machine for me is much better).  Just sounds like you're having to work too hard to make things work ... time is money?

[PeterSt]

Don, right now I can only give you this, and I expect your problem to be in the same area : http://www.phasure.com/index.php?topic=299.msg1988#msg1988
Don't get confused with other WASAPI players which will allow you to play not bitperfectly (hence Shared Mode) unless the player states explicitly it won't and do Exclusive Mode only (like XX does).

I myself get more and more confused about what is and what is not running at your side, and I had swoarn that per your before post all worked. Now in your last post all seems so be working but for Engine#3, which to me tells that exactly nothing is working.
Then you ran a DAC test and tell what does NOT work, instead of telling what does work.

I don't think I am suitable for this job.

Please show me a DAC test and mention the situation (DAC) accordingly (didn't I ask this twice already ?).

But the Off-Ramp/Timbre combo supports 44.1k @ 24 bits in test from the control panel works with those values.

This test runs in Shared Mode.


Hot tip : don't use the OffRamp for just passing through SPDIF.
And now I think of it ... I don't understand something else ... you cannot be passing through 24 bits over USB (which is what you are doing I think) unless the USB standard is not used, or not used in a normal fashion anyway. Never mind, don't use the OffRamp.

I am at loss as to what to ask.

I sure can understand that. But we'll try !

When you try something and compare with other players, please use Foobar WASAPI because I trust that for Exclusive Mode (unless it was changed the last few months). If it works there, it should work with XX, although currently I have one example where I can't get it going where Foobar can.


Lastly for now, when you ask a question, please mention the environmental situation again (which DAC it is about).
When something is working, the same.
You know what you aim for and your heart is full of it, but I can't see that, and I can only draw (wrong) conclusions otherwise.

Don't bother with Engine#1 or #2. It's only confusing, and you wouldn't want that anyway.

Well, that was a lot of unhelpful text ...
Peter