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I’m running BAE 1.30.02 with absolutely no problem on my Win 7 Ultimate x64 machine. I haven’t tried it under XP 32-bit (only the one license).
It’s been a couple of years since I did a fresh install on Win 64-bit. Off the top of my head, though, have your tried running the installer as administrator (right click the installation file and select "Run as administrator" from the context menu)?
How did you make out?
Just wanted to clarify that in my case the issue was with conflicting drivers for the same audio device, not conflicting audio devices. If you haven’t done so already, fire up Device Manager and see what’s installed under Sound Devices.
Just a thought…
I’m running Windows 7 64-bit and endured months of the same problem that you’re seeing. However, I have not had a problem SINCE I removed conflicting sound drivers via Device Manager. It turned out that I had two different versions of the driver for the integrated Intel sound card – I had both an HDAUDIO Soft Data Fax Modem with SmartCP driver AND an IDT Audio driver installed. I unintstalled the IDT Audio Driver, rebooted, re-ran Breakaway’s setup wizard, rebooted and have not had a problem since.
I posted about this problem and my attempts to resove it in this thread: http://www.claessonedwards.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=849&start=30
How embarrassing…
I’ve solved the issue that I have written about a number of times in this thread, specifically that each time I start my Win7 64-bit machine I have to run a Test in Breakaway 1.3x.x to get clear (as opposed to seriously garbled) sound.
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Er… I had two different drivers installed for my sound card! My notebook has integrated audio from Intel and I had both an HDAUDIO Soft Data Fax Modem with SmartCP driver installed AND an IDT Audio driver installed. I unintstalled the IDT Audio Driver, rebooted, re-ran Breakaway’s setup wizard, rebooted and all is well 😀
I lay bare my embarrassment in hopes that others may benefit… (though it appears that I’m the only one who ever had this issue, so…) 😉
[quote author=”timmywa”]Speaker / HP is probably Speaker or Headphone (HP)… If your video card has HDMI out, it is probably the audio send portion of that.[/quote]
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Thanks for the explanation – to paraphrase TH Huxely, how stupid of me not to have thought of that!
At any rate, I’ve played back part of a DVD, have streamed video from the net, and have listened to some mp3s, all without drama after setting configuring BAE to use Speaker/HP.
Cheers,
Mike
I’m back to my original setup (running in Safe Mode). It all works, though I do occasionally have to run the test to get clean sound. Trying the Wave output instead of DS output didn’t work at all – I went all the way up to the largest buffer size (2048) and still had horribly garbled sound. I also played around with drivers, but that didn’t seem to help. The only anomaly I can find is that in Breakaway’s normal configuration settings I have an HP Speakers setting (Speaker/HP), but the notebook is a Gateway and I don’t recall installing any HP or Compaq sound drivers. Additionally, this sound card does NOT show up in my device manager. There’s also an Ati HD Audio Device driver (Ati HD Audio Rear Output) that shows up in the wizard. It’s associated with my Ati graphics card. This device doesn’t work with the Breakaway setup wizard.
See attachments for screen shots in both regular and safe mode.
As I’ve written this, I’ve set up the Speaker/HP "card" in Breakaway using the normal test (ie not in Safe Mode). It passes the tests in Step 1 and Step 2 and I tested it with an mp3 in WMP 12. It’s working fine. I’m going to run this setup and see what happens.
Just to add to my note above, my on-board SigmaTel sound card is only visible to Breakaway 1.30.01 and 1.30.02 when I run the Wizard in SafeMode under Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit. Also, the sound intermittently goes "crackly" and I have to re-run the wizard, at which point all is well. I’ve been using Perfect Blend for some time (doubt that that has any relevance, though).
Despite these minor problems, Breakaway is MUST HAVE software on my system.
I’m running 1.30.01 and have just had the sound go "crackly" again under Windows 7 64-bit, on a Intel Core 2 Duo Centrino notebook, as detailed earlier in this thread. I’m posting mostly to add that I note that with this version installed I still have to run the Wizard in test mode to see my sound card – I know this was necessary in version 1.20.x but thought that with version 1.30.x it wasn’t?
UPDATE: sound went "uncrackly" on its own! But Safe Mode to find my soundcard (SigmaTel High Definition Audio) persists.
Thanks for the suggestion – I’ll give it a go. I’ve been running BAE with default settings (medium sized buffer) – if the problem resurfaces I’ll go for a bigger one and see what happens.
Hmm… the problem I identified earlier has resurfaced. I’ll have to trace the cause, if I am successful I’ll post back here.
Thnks for the link, Leif. 1.30.0.1 installed overtop of 1.2.x without issue and my sound was crisp and clear after a reboot. I’ll keep monitoring this though and will let you know if the behaviour resurfaces. Hopefully, I’ll be in a position to say "why" as well!
Well, I didn’t have the previous beta installer available so installed 1.20.12, the installer for which I had available, rebooted and everything is working as expected. I did have to run the settings wizard and identify my sound card in safe mode, though. But then, perhaps this is expected when running 1.2 under a 64 bit OS?
