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Subject:RE: An error occured while starting playback. Unable to mix audio.
Posted by: jbasch
Date:10/15/2001 7:33:35 PM

I ma getting this error on Acid Pro 3.0. I was wondering if anyone has had any experiance with the new Sound Blaster Audigy cards. I would be more than willing to upgrade, if I had some confidence that it would solve my problem. To date, noone has been able to, although some have tried.

To refresh everyone's memory. I am running an AMD Athon running at 700 MHz. I am running windows 2000 and have 768Mb of Ram. I can duplicate the problem with as few as 1 loop although not as often as with 2.

I am also running 7200 RPM drives at ATA 66. As always any helpful suggestions are greatly appreciated.

Subject:RE: An error occured while starting playback. Unable to mix audio.
Reply by: Jdodge
Date:10/19/2001 3:50:27 PM

Hello, and thanks for sticking with the forums.

I'm posting a link to another section of our forums, from within the Vegas usergroup. The user has a very similar setup to you, and gets the exact error you receive. Read through this post, see the suggestions, and I think you'll find your solution. It lies in the advanced configuration of the W2k OS upon setup.

http://www.sonicfoundry.com/forums/ShowMessage.asp?MessageID=76536


Subject:RE: An error occured while starting playback. Unable to mix audio.
Reply by: jbasch
Date:10/27/2001 7:15:43 PM

Being an Experience computer person, I read your adivse and thought what the heck. Well its now been over a week and I still don't have PC completly up and running. I will admit your potential solution worked. But the side affects far outweighed getting ACID to work. I would not reccomend this solution to anyone unless they are willing to potentially loose everything in their system and start from scratch. All news is not bad though. I am currently testing a potential solution that so far looks very promising and much less painfull than the original solution. I'll email support with the full saga.
-Jeff

Subject:RE: An error occured while starting playback. Unable to mix audio.
Reply by: PatrickL
Date:10/27/2001 9:32:38 PM

If your AMD is using a VIA chipset try these drivers; http://www.viahardware.com/download/index.shtm

As there are issues with Via chips and soundcards

Other than that, we need more stats on your computer.

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