Subject:"Error starting Acid. The reason for the error could not be dertermined"

Posted by: midihead

Date:9/14/2002 11:19:08 PM

I get this error every time I launch Acid 4. Has anyone else experienced this and know what might be causing it? I'm running Windows XP with a Delta66 sound card and latest audio drivers.

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

Subject:RE:

Reply by: Rockitglider

Date:9/15/2002 12:18:07 AM

Hello,

Have you updated your video card drivers lately, or changed your video card, and has Acid been working OK, or is this something new?

Let us know, Rockitglider

Subject:RE:

Reply by: groovewerx

Date:9/15/2002 2:05:11 AM

i just started getting that same error in a3 and i have changed nothing...

Subject:RE:

Reply by: groovewerx

Date:9/15/2002 4:06:18 AM

just ran defrag...the acid setup files were fragged. problem solved.

Subject:RE:

Reply by: stusy

Date:9/15/2002 12:21:25 PM

Stuff like this is scary, cuz certainly I am not wanting in the CPU or mem departments, but my music software is, well, I'm meeting the minimum req's for my OS is 98SE...my hard drives are @ 7200RPM, and I'm contemplating a removable bay sitch...but what scares me is the soundcard issues with acid 4...right now I have a "cheapy" AW2 card and am seriously thinking of biting on an M-Audio Delta series, prolly a 66, but there have been issues with A4/98SE and their cards, I guess...haven't heard from M-Audio yet on this one, so, again, posting my angst here...

Subject:And Another THing...

Reply by: stusy

Date:9/15/2002 12:24:29 PM

...I never been a follower of the softsynth thing, etc., or WDM, and have basically liked what all my apps do with MME...I run a serial cable from my alesis to the back of my tower, so I don't use digital in any way thru my AW2 card, hence, no concerns with ASIO...what am I trying to say here...? heck w/it...

Subject:RE:

Reply by: midihead

Date:9/15/2002 4:20:05 PM

No updates whatsoever except the latest BETA driver from M-Audio for my Delta66. I uninstalled that driver, totally removed it I thought and then reinstalled the previous driver. Still getting the error. This problem happened to me once when I was running version 3 and had Wavelab installed. Uninstalling Wavelab fixed the problem, but I've had Wavelab installed well before this problem with V4 and all was well. I even uninstalled Wavelab to see if that would fix it, nope. Last night Acid 4 caused a yellow exclamation mark to appear in my system tray which was an indication that my system was running low on resources. I opened up Task Manager and found Acid 4 to be still running (though it was closed I thought) and sucking the life out of my resources. Weird. Not to mention that Acid 4 crashes a whole hell of a lot when I'm doing tasks as simple as changing volume envelopes on tracks, or playing around in the piano roll.

My system consists of:

AMD Athlon XP 1600
MSI K266 Pro Motherboard
512 Megs of SDRam
G-Force II video card
Delta66 audio card
Ultra II SCSI Cheetah hard drive

Thanks much,

Midihead

Subject:RE: And Another THing...

Reply by: midihead

Date:9/16/2002 9:57:02 PM

Uh...Ok WAY off track, thank you. I've done just about everything I can think of right down to making sure I have the latest detonator drivers for my NVidia card and the latest 4 in 1 drivers for my VIA chipset. I defragged my hard drive (again) to see if it would fix it also as per previous post. I don't get it. This error just popped up one day out of nowhere.

Subject:I found out the problem

Reply by: midihead

Date:9/18/2002 4:55:31 PM

Here's what is causing it. Apparently by disabling terminal services in Win 2000/XP this pop up error message appears. According to SOFO, it's only an annoyance and won't cause any further problems. I personally don't like the idea of having Terminal Services running on my PC, so I'll live with the annoyance.

BTW, why does ACID need that service anyway? Seems a bit fishy to me.

Subject:RE: I found out the problem

Reply by: groovewerx

Date:9/18/2002 5:00:02 PM

hmmm...i'm not running that service on mine. have you tried a fresh install of acid?

Subject:RE: I found out the problem

Reply by: SonyTSW

Date:9/18/2002 11:38:11 PM

Windows Terminal Services is used for fast user switching and remote desktop support.

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