Has anybody noticed stability problems under windows XP sp2 with G-Force 2.8?
It was stopping after something like 30 minutes in my case.
I had to revert to 2.7.3...(but I kept the shapes, flowfileds and colormaps from 2.8 )
It works fine again now
If only the G5 was fanless and I could install my matrox parhelia inside....
I too am having stability issues using G-Force 2.8 with JRiver Media Center's current builds. I am using MC version 11.0.220 currently, and the player crashes reliably after 2-3 songs play when the G-Force visualization is running. I have also had problems with at least the past few builds of MC (though it may have been ever since I installed G-Force 2.8). The application crash details:
The Media Core error signature:
AppName: media center.exe AppVer: 11.0.220.0 ModName: g-force_api.dll
ModVer: 0.0.0.0 Offset: 000699e9
(I can post the full dump of an error if someone needs it).
My system details are:
Media Center Registered 11.0.220 -- C:\Program Files\J River\Media Center 11\
G-Force Gold 2.8
Microsoft Windows XP 5.1 Service Pack 2 (Build 2600)
AMD Athlon 1624 MHz MMX / Memory: Total - 1048 MB, Free - 586 MB
After testing, it appears that reverting to 2.7.3 does correct the problem. Since reverting, I have not had the crash recur (and it typically would have happened by now I suspect).
I have a version of 2.8.0 dated February 18, 2005 ... I don't use G-Force with iTunes, but I do have XP SP2. Do these changes affect other plugins as well or just the iTunes plugin?
Re-downloading and re-installing G-Force 2.8 seems to have solved the problems I was having with JRiver Media Center as well. The changes mentioned in the thread above must apply to more than just iTunes for Windows.
I am running GF 2.8 under Windows XP SP2 using MusicMatch10 now, though I was running it under MM9 until a couple weeks ago. It is normally quite stable when running, locking up itself and MM only occasionally. My problem is that 2.8 locks up, taking MM with it, about 90%+ of the time if I don't shut GF down, leaving MM paused, before going to 'Stand by' or 'Hibernate' or if the machine does it on its own. If the Screensaver comes up, there's at least a 50% chance that GF will cause MM to lock up. I had absolutely no problem with MM9 and GF version prior to 2.8. The MM version I am running is 10.002058b, which is much more stable than the previous version, which was 10.002047b, a total piece of crap, that would hardly run by itself, without G-Force. Andy has said that the problem is probably with MusicMatch 9 & 10, but I have run enough different trials that I feel confident that it is a GF2.8 bug. Take care.
I just noticed that dvd player softwares were not able to use the spdif output when G-Force is running and using spdif as input
tried power dvd 6 and windvd 6
works fine when G-Force doesn't run, uses other inputs, or dvd player setup to use analog outputs
blue screen if I turn G-Force on and dvd player using spdif output
this doesn't affect stability with version 2.7.3 but might be the source of problems with gf2.8
soudcard is terratec aureon space 7.1, driver version 5.20c
os winxp sp2
MB FIC P4M 865 GII
pentium4 2600
1 Go RAM
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