On 5 May 2005 at 16:14, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote:

> A client insisted I get Finale 2005 for its human playback, and he
> bought it for me. I'm dismayed about having to capitulate to this
> tethered registration thing, but at least it wasn't my money.
> Half-compromise. Grumble.
> 
> I'm running my nice clean Win98SE which just purrs along. However,
> halfway through either the human playback preview mode or the apply
> human playback plugin, it crashes to a BSOD. BSOD! Haven't seen one of
> those in how long?
> 
> Anyway, it's Finale 2005b, right from the factory. I rebooted & tried
> several times, and I managed to get regular crashes twice so at least
> I could capture the crash cause: HP.DLL, ApplyHumanPlayback.fxt, and
> the extremely rare Kernel32 error. Two of the three are Finale
> components.

My bet is that it's a video driver problem. Things to check:

1. turn off scrolling during playback.

2. try ctrl-spacebar playback and see if it also crashes.

3. try changing to 100% if you're running at some other magnification 
(I always run at 75%, myself).

> I can clear Midi data with the plugin, but when I try to apply it, it
> gets to 33%, pauses for about 10 seconds, then continues, and at 55%
> it's a BSOD.

Does it matter how much of the file you select to clear?

> Any advice? My sound subsystem is flawless (runs Sonar, AudioMulch,
> etc., under very high demand) and my video system is the same (editing
> with Sony, Ulead, etc.). 
> 
> As I said, this is Finale 2005b. Just another bit of shoddy
> programming from Coda that has to wait a version or two to function,
> or is there more to this issue?

Well, Win98 has been obsolete since the day it was released. You 
really should get a better OS.

Of course, you may have hardware that won't be fully supported on 
newer versions of Windows, such as my Turtle Beach double sound card 
setup, which works fine for playback and all that, but the output of 
which isn't recognized by my MIDI to WAV capture software (which 
always worked fine on Win95).

Of course, given your opposition to authorization, you'll want to get 
Win2K instead of WinXP, but if you're like me, you'd vastly prefer 
Win2K over WinXP, anyway.

-- 
David W. Fenton                        http://www.bway.net/~dfenton
David Fenton Associates                http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc

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