MSP7 terminates after 10 minutes

RadistaM · Post by **RadistaM** » Fri May 26, 2006 6:54 pm

Hi there,

suddenly I received this weird problem with MSP7 (7.30.0003) It terminates exactly 10 minutes and 10 seconds after launching. No error message, no application crash, just if i'd hit "X". And regardless, what it is doing in this moment: While rendering, while saving, or while doing nothing. It terminates even without having any project loaded and doing anything for this period of time.

This happens from one day to another. I reinstalled the application and servicepack with no change. So I reinstalled the whole machine from an image, and it still happens. Everything is exactly like it was, probably except of some Norton Antivirus, Zonealarm and Microsoft updates.

Ever heared of this trouble?
Best regards
Klaus

sjj1805 · Post by **sjj1805** » Sat May 27, 2006 3:21 am

If this happens every time at the exact 10 min 10 seconds period I suspect it is an autosave kicking in that is causing this.

There is a save project every xx minutes in MSP8 but I don't recall if it's in Version 7. It is located in the Program preferences dialog box.

RadistaM · Post by **RadistaM** » Sun May 28, 2006 10:06 am

Hi Steve,

thank you for your reply. No, unfortunately MSP7 doesn't seem to have an autosave feature. I don't have any idea what to look for. I've a second computer running W2K and installed MSP over there. It works properly. Unfortunately this computer is unusable for editing (too slow, low disk space). The other one runs under XP, but this cannot be the problem, since it *did* work earlier.

Regards
Klaus

Post by **Ron P.** » Sun May 28, 2006 10:48 am

RadistaM wrote:Hi Steve,

thank you for your reply. No, unfortunately MSP7 doesn't seem to have an autosave feature.

Regards
Klaus

Hi Klaus,

I took this screenshot from MSP7.0VE which is a watered down (Freebie) version.

Regards..

Ron P.

RadistaM · Post by **RadistaM** » Sun May 28, 2006 5:33 pm

Goddamn...

I'm going to check with optician tomorrow morning, I promise

Nevertheless, it is disabled, but for the moment I'm thinking about seting it to 9 minutes in order not to loose my work every 10 minutes...

I've tried today to disable firewall, antivirus and stopped all background tasks not absolutely necessary in order to run windows. No success. I'm running out of ideas.

Regards
Klaus

sjj1805 · Post by **sjj1805** » Sun May 28, 2006 5:55 pm

Try this then
http://phpbb.ulead.com.tw/EN/viewtopic.php?t=13950

RadistaM · Post by **RadistaM** » Mon Mar 24, 2008 9:29 pm

Pushing...
This problem is still persistent, and I'm coming close:

When I delete the file AFilter.rsa from MSP7 folder in my windows user profile directory, MSP7 is working again fine. Unfortunately, it recreates the file on first launch, and the second time the problem is back again. so I could continue deleting the file prior launching MSP7 for the rest of my life...

As far as I understand, this file is the audio filter gallery. It is absolute possible, that I've installed some new audio codecs to another application while this problem appears for the frist time, so probably some audio codec, probably some kind of directX filter may disturb MSP7.

But how can I determine which filter causes the problem? I definitely cannot uninstall all audio software. is there a way to exclude filters from loading with MSP?

Ideas, anyone?

sjj1805 · Post by **sjj1805** » Mon Mar 24, 2008 11:54 pm

Gee you are persistent, two years have gone by and your still trying to fix this problem!!

Rather than delete the file - which re-appears next time you start the program, fool the computer in one of two ways.

Method 1 - XP Professional.
Right click the file and alter the security settings so that no one, nothing, not even the system can access the file.

Method 2 - Any Operating system.
Create a dummy file. Simply use Windows Notepad and create a small text file - doesn't matter what you put in it, even a simple X will do.
Save the file as AFilter.rsa. Now if I am right MSP will just skip over the file.

As a third alternative, use a FREE tool named Batchrun to create a simple file you can click to automate deleting this problem file.

Whilst we could pursue the reason you are having this problem it looks like you have already found a work round that works for you, so these hints are designed to make your work round a bit easier to implement.

RadistaM · Post by **RadistaM** » Mon Mar 31, 2008 10:28 am

Yeah, since it takes 10 minutes every try a lot of time goes by...

Now I tried both, deny access to the file and creating a dummy file. unfortunataly, in both cases, when MSP says "creating audio filter gallery" it crashes with an application error then.

So it seems like even if I don't find the causing audio plugin by accident, I will continue deleting this file (or using batchrun).

Regards,
Klaus