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  • #321
    Anonymous
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    Hi Leif!

    First, I have to say that Breakaway Live works very stable! Nearly perfect 🙂
    The only one thing I do not get to grips with is a strange crackle after system restart. Sounds like CPU spikes!
    The simple solution is to enter into the Breakaway audio settings (processing stopps) and go back out of the settings. Now everything works fine…

    It’s no big problem, but an automatic emergency restart would not quite work…

    #7178
    Leif
    Keymaster

    Howdy!

    What OS and sound card are you running? What Breakaway i/o settings are you using?

    ///Leif

    #7179
    Anonymous
    Guest

    Windows Vista x64 Home Premium SP1

    It does no matter what soundcard I use. I tried it with MAYA44 USB (non ASIO mode) and the PC internal audio.

    Settings:
    Input 1: KS / Breakaway Pipeline 1 / 480 / 4 / 48000 / SRC: no
    Output 1: DS / Soundcard line out / 480 / 4 / 48000 / SRC: no

    Audio realtime priority: yes
    Enable ASIO: no
    Start up with computer: yes
    Effects: no
    Encoders: no

    #7180
    Leif
    Keymaster

    That’s a tough one to solve, but I do have a possible workaround:

    There’s a way to add a delay to the startup in the ini file. If you open BreakawayLive.ini (search the Users folder — due to virtualization it won’t be under program files in vista), and then:

    Find the [Master] section
    Add the following keyword: StartupDelay=5

    This adds 5 seconds of delay. If that’s not enough, try 10, or a higher number.

    Footnote: This startup delay only applies when Breakaway is started on startup (using the "force" command line parameter), not when you click on the icon.

    Let me know how it works out!

    Best,
    ///Leif

    #7181
    lpy7
    Member

    Maybe you should point him to the VAC 3.12 link if all else fails Leif? Sounds like a very similar VAC 4.08 bug I had, although mine was more like a stuttering effect that disappeared after a restart but eventually came back. Might not be…but worth a try if what you suggest doesn’t work.

    Cheers.

    #7182
    Leif
    Keymaster

    Hi Lpy!

    Unfortunately, VAC 3.12 is 32-bit only — it doesn’t work in Win64.

    Best,
    ///Leif

    #7183
    Anonymous
    Guest

    In fact it’s like a stuttering first and changes to something like crackles… I’ll try your work-around tonight Leif. But I tried somthing like that already by using a batch file including a 30 sec sleep before starting up Breakaway. There was much less of stuttering by starting it up, but the crackles were still there.

    #7184
    Leif
    Keymaster

    How odd!

    I’ll be honest, I have never managed to get acceptable audio performance out of vista myself.. And I’ve tried — on several machines, and several different versions of vista.

    ///Leif

    #7185
    lpy7
    Member

    I was thinking the same too. To me, Vista has always been a piece of crap when trying to get stable audio out of it. XP, when setup right, works flawlessly.

    #7186
    Anonymous
    Guest

    It can’t be a real performance problem… As I said, after stopping Breakaway (by opening the audio settings window) and starting again then, everything’s perfect! I’ll see… 😕

    #7187
    Leif
    Keymaster

    Yeah.. But, why is that? Where is the unreliablility coming from? It’s not like the Breakaway executable changes between launches. 😉

    ///Leif

    #7188
    Anonymous
    Guest

    I got it! 😀
    After setting the start up delay to 60sec everything works fine… It seems that a high CPU load by starting up Breakaway will affect the processing performance for ever!

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