Live 8 still runs even when ending task on Win Vista/7
Live 8 still runs even when ending task on Win Vista/7
I've had this problem on Vista and also on Win7 but never on XP. When Live 8 crashes (all versions including the latest) the program is still shown to be running (in Task Manager) and uses the same amount of memory than before the crash. If I open a new instance of Live then audio is disabled as only one app can use the ASIO device. If I try to force the task to end (End Process, End Process Tree) then nothing happens, I've also tried using the Task Kill command via the command line and I've also installed Process Explorer, but again the Kill commands have no affect. Restarting the PC is the only way, or sometimes after about 5-10 minutes Live will finally quit but not all times.
Any ideas on how to fix this?
Any ideas on how to fix this?
Re: Live 8 still runs even when ending task on Win Vista/7
try unplugging any controllers.. especially usb
Re: Live 8 still runs even when ending task on Win Vista/7
Thanks, I'll give it a try next time Live crashes.longjohns wrote:try unplugging any controllers.. especially usb
Re: Live 8 still runs even when ending task on Win Vista/7
No luck. I tried removing all devices including midi and usb. Looking at process explorer the culprit seems to be wdmaud.drv which is the only active Live thread using cpu cycles. Googling this file says that it's a windows audio driver...
Re: Live 8 still runs even when ending task on Win Vista/7
i don't see why you should need a wdm driver running, if you are apparently using an asio capable sound card
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Re: Live 8 still runs even when ending task on Win Vista/7
Yes I'm using asio, I think the windows media driver is a part of windows system files and is used for direct x and other things, I doubt that it can be uninstalled. But I don't know why Live is using this driver as I have asio selected in the audio preferences...longjohns wrote:i don't see why you should need a wdm driver running, if you are apparently using an asio capable sound card
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Re: Live 8 still runs even when ending task on Win Vista/7
I think this has something to do with how long windows allows crashed tasks to run in background before really killing them (or something like that...). During windows 7 beta i noticed the same thing and did a search at the time and found some answers...but I have since forgotten all if it except that its some windows setting new on vista/7 that was not on XP (or the setting may have changed...see its been a while )
Anyway, its part of the OS behavior...might want to do a general google search for the issue of tasks continuing to run in the background for some time after crashing, as I dont think its related to Live.
I could be wrong, maybe its the audio driver...but when I had the issue it was just a setting in the OS preventing killing the application right after a crash.
Sorry thats all I can remember, hopefully it helps you find some useful info
Anyway, its part of the OS behavior...might want to do a general google search for the issue of tasks continuing to run in the background for some time after crashing, as I dont think its related to Live.
I could be wrong, maybe its the audio driver...but when I had the issue it was just a setting in the OS preventing killing the application right after a crash.
Sorry thats all I can remember, hopefully it helps you find some useful info
Re: Live 8 still runs even when ending task on Win Vista/7
Yeah, this happens to me too. I have to wait about 5-6 minutes before the Live process dies. Windows XP had no problem fully killing Live when Live crashed.
Re: Live 8 still runs even when ending task on Win Vista/7
Thanks, I now realise that it's a problem with windows rather than Live. I'll see if I can find anything online that may work.
Re: Live 8 still runs even when ending task on Win Vista/7
Live has just crashed a few times on me in Win7 but I remember the process still running in the background once and all I could do was restart. Other than that it's behaved well for me.
digimixa wrote:Thanks, I now realise that it's a problem with windows rather than Live. I'll see if I can find anything online that may work.