On 03/02/2010 08:47 PM, Julius Schwartzenberg wrote:
Paul Vriens wrote:
I give up. Tried several combinations on XP (old and newer driver with or without waveset files), to no avail.
I found a solution. The earlier stuff I wrote here is completely unrelated. The Creative soft-synth included with the drivers using the wave sets works fine.
It's the external midi stuff that hangs. This is likely because VMware's MPU-401 emulation is non-existent. (Normally I understand this would go to the wide jack on your soundcard.)
To solve the problem you have to remove the MPU device. Open inf\wdma_ens.inf in the Windows directory and remove all lines and sections with UART in them. When using drivers from Creative, you need to extract them manually first and do the same thing with the included inf file (in addition to the one above for some reason!).
This will prevent the MPU-401 device from installing. You should have just the soft-syths which should not cause any programs to hang.
Regards, Julius
Hi Julius,
Great!! This is exactly the behavior I was seeing. As said using the external midi also hangs Microsoft Media Player.
I will give your suggestions a try. I will also check how it influences the other sound related tests.
I didn't want to go the easy road by uninstalling/disabling sound altogether and this certainly sound good.