App not working

[prosumer]

Hi,
I have downloaded the latest app 0.9a.  I have XP Pro.  I have .net 2.0 and latest directx drivers.  I am using a Lynx AES-16src card to an external dac. 

There are only two executables in this build, xxhighend.exe and xxEngine3.exe.   Of course I am using xxhighend.exe.

When I run xxhighend.exe I get a small window that says "xxhighend demo" and there is an OK button.   When I click the OK button the window dissapears.  The program terminates. No program.

What can I do?

[PeterSt]

Hi,

First of all you pointed out that lately there's two EXEs in there, while I never told which one to run (on the just too many pages that deal with that). Indeed it's XXHighEnd.exe.

Then ...
It can well be so that the "install" as how it is since a week or so, wasn't excessiveley tested on XP. And, all what is in there for DLLs and Manifest files is for Vista. So could you please try this :

Remove everything except for what you see in the picture below;
I can only hope for error messages you might then receive, so we can proceed from there.
Anyway, I don't recall a situation that one just gets the Demo message and nothing further (i.e. without an error message). Or maybe I do, but it's too long go to recall what it was about.

Maybe others had the same ?

Peter

[prosumer]

Ok, I reinstalled Directx again and that did the trick.  It works now.

So if you are using Quality setting #1, does it send 88.2Khz to the soundcard/dac? 

When you select Quality setting #2, and check the 'double' box, does this then upsample to 88.2 Khz?

[Gerner]

Maybe others had the same ?

Peter

Peter

I just grapped the .exe and threw into my directory together with the excisting .dlli had there, and everything were just running from the first second. Made a shortcut from the exe to the desktop.

Vuola.

Gerner

[PeterSt]

Thank you Gerner. But for others : the fact that this works for you, sadly, doesn't say much; all depends on the current stage of your system (PC). So, what I intended with a more "raw install" for XP, was getting out of the way the probably error message masking DLLs.

The problem often is : once you get it working, there's hardly a way of getting back to the situation it didn't work (like on a development PC there's no way that things like this can be tested).

Luckily this case is already solved now.

[PeterSt]

Ok, I reinstalled Directx again and that did the trick.  It works now.

Ah, very good. You are not the first who has to perform this twice. Otoh, I think you had this installed earlier ? 
If we only could find our ways in these specific Microsoft pages (which version is the newest, which implies what. etc.).

So if you are using Quality setting #1, does it send 88.2Khz to the soundcard/dac?

No. This only happens when Double or Upsample is ticked (and this is not possible with #1).

When you select Quality setting #2, and check the 'double' box, does this then upsample to 88.2 Khz?

Literally, no. That's what Upsample is for (not possible with #2 so far). It outputs in 88K2 though (bps is twice as high -> doubles the data).