And so, a false alarm. Finale works with the latest Nvidia drivers (196.21, 1/19/10) but froze with the earlier ones (195.62 11/26/09).
On Mon, March 1, 2010 10:44 am, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote: > Hi all, > > I was just about to send this when I found a partial but unsatisfactory > solution. > > Finale 2010 will NOT run on my second monitor. My default monitor for Finale > is the second monitor, running on a GeForce 9400 GT in portrait mode. > > It will run on the main monitor just fine, but moving it to the second monitor > causes it to freeze. > > Any solution for that? :) > > Dennis > > > > Message I was about to send, in case anybody else has this experience: > > > Hi all, > > Figured I'd start here rather than the morass of support. > > Finale 2010, Windows XP Pro SP3, all patches, Intel Core2 Duo 3GHz, 2GB > memory, dual monitor, sound external (USB) Focusrite Saffire Pro 40. > > Upon running Finale, it opens the splash screen. I can close it, change my > arrangement of tools, change preferences, etc. I can close and re-open the > program and the new preferences are in place. Finale is registered (yes, it > could do that, too). > > But when I open any document including the default document (whether > preferences are set to scroll view or page view), the program freezes. The > mouse cursor over Finale disappears. If I switch to another program and back, > the menu bar is gone (white) and the cursor then appears as an hourglass. At > this point it looks like a typical hung application, and CPU dedicated to > Finale is between 48-52% and issuing a constant stream of page faults (6 per > second). > > In case it was a slow "first run", I have waited about a half hour with no > change. I have also reinstalled Finale and the Garritan instruments. > > That's it. I have to force the program closed. > > Anybody else see this and get it running? > > Thanks, > Dennis > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > Finale@shsu.edu > http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > > _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
