Probs with RME driver 3079

[905shmick]

Is anyone else using driver 3079?

If I stop and start the SAC engine via right click, I end up getting hundreds and thousands of slipped output buffers.

If I completely close SAC and start it again, nothing happens when enabling live mode. Load stays at 0%

A full reboot is required to remedy the situation.

[905shmick]

I tried 3077 and I was still having some slipped buffers, nothing as bad as with 3079, but they were still there.

I'm now running driver 3076 which is where I started before upgrading to 3079 and everything is back to normal now.

[Larry Burger]

I have installed 3079 on 4 laptops, hdsp express card.
One had some buffer slips, the other 3 are working OK.
2 machines are Vista and I checked the vista box on the about page.
I have not tried 3079 on hdsp pci yet.
Hope this helps.

[905shmick]

Thanks Larry.

Have you tried stopping then starting Live mode to see if you get the same results?

Things worked fine as long as I started SAC and left it.

[Larry Burger]

Yes I just tried that.
From Live I stopped and restarted it on the Tablet and there were no buffer errors.
On some machines if I go outside of SAC and or SAW I get errors every time. But on this machine I went to Windows, have sent these messages on the internet and there are no errors (this is not true for many of the test machines).

Steve thank you for your great comunication and service on the Output card. I have not installed it. Will it work with HDSP or hammerfall drivers?

Thanks

[Larry Burger]

I have often wondered if setting SPDIF in the in and out preferences would make a difference since SPDIF might want to see an external sync.
This configuration is 64 buffer size and 3. I have had some success with 48 or 32 X 3.
If the load climbs to 70% or more the engine will buffer error in the same machine. When it operates at 50 +- it will respond like we would like.

The 3079 is set to Master clock not Autoclock (don't know).

[905shmick]

Steve thank you for your great comunication and service on the Output card. I have not installed it. Will it work with HDSP or hammerfall drivers?

Thanks

It'll work with HDSP for sure. Don't know about hammerfall.

[905shmick]

I have often wondered if setting SPDIF in the in and out preferences would make a difference since SPDIF might want to see an external sync.
This configuration is 64 buffer size and 3. I have had some success with 48 or 32 X 3.
If the load climbs to 70% or more the engine will buffer error in the same machine. When it operates at 50 +- it will respond like we would like.

The 3079 is set to Master clock not Autoclock (don't know).

I've got 3 HDSP 9652 cards in the box. #1 is set to master and #2 and #3 are set to autosync. #1 sends internal spdif to #2 and #2 sends internal spdif to #3.

I'm running 2x64 with a load of about 50%

I wonder if the overclocking of the CPU is causing problems, though if it runs rock solid with 3076, then I'm inclined to say it's not the CPU.

[Larry Burger]

I had an extreme amount of errors with two hdsp cards in the same machine with older drivers befor 3079.
What I had to do was word clock out (I did not try spdif) then word clock in on card two with proper sync settings.
Had a class I teach set the same machine up and I forgot to tell them to word clock. We had bad errors. Then I remembered to word clock and it worked like a champ.
Could you word clock out from 1 into two, out of two into three?
The spdif should work the same but it might be worth a try,

[905shmick]

I'll have to track down a couple of WC cables and try this out.