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Hey guys ! New on forum
First of all I commend breakaway on a fine product and purchased 2 licenses.
Everything works fine, except for one glitch. I’ve seen it mentioned before but found no solution.
Evertime I start windows, the sound is garbled until I "re-initialize" breakaways settings.
When I go to settings, all the settings are there and fine. I merely click on the finish button and
I’m back in again with the audio as expected.Though a minor glitch, It’s becoming an annoying routine evewrytime I start windows.
Any Ideas ?
Thanx – Joe 🙂Hey Joe.
I am running breakaway AE from my win7 x64 box since about a week ago and have had no issues. Mind you, I’ve reduced win7 down to looking like XP/2000 and have all the extras turned off.
I’m running it on a p4 HT 3.0ghz with 4gb ram. and running through an audigy 2zx PCI card.
Never had that problem you mention.
I imagine this post isn’t directly beneficial, but an instance where it does work.
Thanks.
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
I thank you gentlemen for you reply and thoughts.
Worth a thought – I’ll disable other sound devices one at a time to see what happens.
My only consideration would be losing these devices when I need them for programs such as PowerDVD etc
that relys on these devices and won’t offer output options to take advantage of breakaway pipeline.Lets play and see what happens.
Thanx guys !
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…
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First of all, thanx Darwin for you interest and suggestions.
I started to disable my various audio devices one by one and rebooted each time to no avail.
As we all know, many windows devices are virtual in nature, such as codecs etc.
Windows reports no (bangeged out) conflicts.
To get to the bottom line, I not only disabled, but REMOVED ALL audio devices with only Breakaway
Pipepine intact.Results: The glitch remains – Breakaway’s settings have to be reaffirmed on every windows load.
Also, as expected, I lost all audio functions as needed by various applications that can not exploit
the breakaway pipeline.Alas although a a pain in the ass- (kinda rhymes)
I’ll continue as is, because I enjoy Breakaway.BTW: I was a past supporter of OCTIMAX. I wish the author would have continued support for it.
I spent the bucks and strictly use winamp as my audio media player.We all must keep in mind that Breakaway , while a great product, is only as good that our software audio and video players are
willing to enable output settings to as such.Thanx guys and "see ya soon"
JoeIf you remove the audio device then reboot, your plug & play OS will re-detect them and will probably automatically re-install the drivers. You only should disable them. They will remain disabled between reboots as well.
What I do is I have two soundcards out from several machines, into a digital switcher & speaker/headphone selection built into two boxes, one of them the converter. So in Winamp I’m setting the output to be VAC#2… I am using Virtual Audio Cable because there was an addition to the even newer VAC code that’s in BAP (Breakaway Pipeline) that wouldn’t be a good option for using with software like Breakaway. The reason is Breakaway has advanced resampling to keep different soundcards in sync with a virtually inaudible (in most cases it is completely inaudible all the time) adaptive sample rate correction.
The new code used in BAP has some weird extra stage that detects if a block of samples has been dropped and instead sends silence down the pipeline instead. Breakaway’s audio engine has been more than robust enough to handle that no problems, and no skipping. The new BAP however hasn’t always been perfect about always detecting when an audio block has been dropped or not, perhaps timed too fast or something.
Consider it a known rare bug for a while, and that the new versions will correct it. In the mean time, you might try a Virtual Audio Cable trial… and see if using a VAC fixes the problem.
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p.s. Volume Logic didn’t include linear-phase filtering. when used for streaming, do not end with particularly great results. I think I remember hearing from Leif that he thought Octamax filters were a tad better for streaming, but still nothing compared to something like Breakaway Live in linear mode. 🙂 The unfortunate side effect is delay, but I’m thinking I convinced Leif to include a new filter mode that may have some appeal in between the two opposing goals. And in some ways, me and a bunch of other people think… it may sound more musical on some presets. 🙂
Hey how’re you doing, I’m new here.
I put Breakaway on my Laptop running Win 7 64-bit and it’s like the difference between night and day! Before, it sounded low and muffled like typical laptop speakers, but now it sounds fuller and crystal clear. Before, I could barely hear Glenn Gould’s piano playing in the Goldberg Variations. With Breakaway, now I can hear every note and nuance. Breakaway is outstanding!
I ran into the exact same problem discussed here, when Windows restarts, the sound is all garbled until I go back into the Breakaway settings and re-do the settings then audio sounds good again. I was going nuts trying to figure out why this was happening and came across this thread. It definitely was conflicting audio drivers affecting Breakaway. In the Device Manager there were two listed under sound, video, and game controllers: ATI Audio and IDT Audio. I disabled ATI Audio, rebooted, and now the sound remains the same after every restart.
I appreciate the info here that helped me solve the problem, Thanks! 😀
Ciao.
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