On 7/13/2017 1:09 PM, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote: > Hi all, > > I ran Finale 25 for the first time today, Windows 10 64-bit pro, and got this > message immediately: > > "The WASAPI audio device type has caused a crash while attempting to > initialize. Do you want to: > - Quit without disabling this device type, or > - Disable this device type and quit Finale? > Disabling the device type will prevent WASAPI devices from being initialized > when Finale is started." > > Anybody know what this means? I quit Finale. I don't want Finale messing with > my system. > [snip]
I finally bit the bullet and bought the upgrade once they lowered the price to $95 for those few days earlier this month. WASAPI is an audio output protocol. Most computers have several different ones installed -- my Win10 machine has WASAPI as well as WindowsDirectSound. As long as there's one or another (like ASIO4ALL) that Finale25 will be able to interact with you'll be fine. Finale25 doesn't like my WASAPI either -- you can get around it though by starting Finale25 without WASAPI and then going to the MIDI/Audio menu and selecting Device Setup and then Audio Setup. In the dialog that pops up if you click the down-triangle at the right of the entry for Audio Driver you will see the list (including WASAPI possibly) of possible entries. Mine show DirectSound and ASIO as well as WASAPI. Selecting WASAPI on my machine gets the same error message you saw on your machine. I just tested things with WASAPI and got an error message. Then I tried both of the others, without first quitting Finale, and nothing played back. Then I restarted Fin25 and selected DirectSound and playback was fine. Then without restarting Fin25 I changed to the ASIO device and playback was still fine. For some reason Fin25 just doesn't like WASAPI -- so don't let it use it. I don't think it will remove it from your computer or disable it, Fin25 simply won't try to load it in the future. But if Fin25 disables it so it shows as disabled in Device Manager, it's a simple matter to re-enable it. -- ***** David H. Bailey [email protected] http://www.davidbaileymusicstudio.com _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: [email protected]
