Re: [Audacity-quality] Windows alpha builds

[Steve t. F. <ste...@gm...>]

On 9 April 2014 22:58, Vaughan Johnson <va...@au...> wrote:
> The thread is here:
> http://audacity.238276.n2.nabble.com/Crash-on-start-up-Audacity-2-0-4-Win-XP-td7559346i20.html.
> I think the summary is that we want to continue to find out what's
> broken, via alpha-testing, but that it's not ready for release.

Thanks Vaughan, I couldn't remember what had been decided for the alpha builds.

The good news is that when work to fix the problem resumes, I've got
access to a machine that I can easily "break" to reliably reproduce
the crash, which will be useful for testing.

Steve


>
> - V
>
>
> On 4/9/2014 8:41 AM, Steve the Fiddle wrote:
>> Is it intended that the Windows alpha builds have WDM-KS and WASAPI enabled?
>> It seems that most of them have.
>>
>> I tried several versions including the most recent (April) on a "Vista
>> Home" laptop with Realtek on-board sound. In each case Audacity
>> crashed on launch, (but no problem with Audacity 2.0.5).
>>
>> Eventually I figured out Windows had updated the sound card drivers.
>> After reinstalling the correct drivers for the laptop, the alpha
>> versions worked correctly (though it took a bit of a fight to stop
>> Windows from reinstalling its drivers, which had a later version
>> number).
>>
>> Steve
>>
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