Version 2.0.3 - I had Audacity working correctly in Win7 32-bit. Then I reformatted and installed Win 7 64-bit and downloaded and installed Audacity 2.0.3 but it will not start. The process “audacity.exe *32” appears in Task Mgr but Audacity does not show up in the taskbar. Additional copies of the process appear if I attempt to start it again. (However, the first couple of times I did that I was told that an instance was already running. That no longer occurs.) I have no VSTs installed. I have uninstalled/reinstalled several times and replaced preferences in the process. I found that PLUGINS.CFG was 0 bytes and replaced the file with:
NewPrefsInitialized=1
[AudioUnits]
Enable=0
GUI=0
[Ladspa]
Enable=1
[Nyquist]
Enable=1
[VAMP]
Enable=0
[VST]
Enable=0
GUI=0
Rescan=0
as mentioned in another post. AUDACITY.CFG has these lines:
NewPrefsInitialized=1
Version=2.0.3
PrefsVersion=1.1.1r1
[Version]
Major=2
Minor=0
Micro=3
[Directories]
TempDir=C:\Users<user>\AppData\Local\Temp\audacity_temp
Anyone have any ideas?
Force quit all the instances of Audacity in Windows Task Manager (look in the “Processes” tab, right-click over each “audacity.exe” and choose “End Process Tree”).
The plugins.cfg is only meant to contain a list of VST plug-ins.
Assuming some DLL on your system is confusing Audacity when it tries to scan for VST plug-ins, either of the following solutions should stop the scan happening.
Either edit plugins.cfg so it only has the following content (basically a list of no plug-ins)
[VST]
[VST/0]
Or edit audacity.cfg so it has only these lines:
NewPrefsInitialized=1
[VST]
Enable=0
Rescan=0
Gale
Neither of these suggestions nor both together worked. I noticed that, after trying to start Audacity, systems sounds (and probably all sounds) are disabled (no longer working) so that I have to reboot in order to tray again. What’s next?
What exactly did you do when you “reformatted” - a hard drive format?
If you now think that plug-ins are not the problem then I would suspect a problem with your computer sound device.
You can test that by rebooting into Windows Safe Mode . Audacity does not load sound devices in Safe Mode because Windows audio services do not run in Safe Mode.
Did you install 64-bit audio drivers that are meant for your specific motherboard or specific computer model? You can’t use the 32-bit audio drivers you were using before. Please see http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Updating_Sound_Device_Drivers .
If you have further questions about drivers please give the make and model number of the computer (or if you built the computer yourself, make and model number of the motherboard).
Gale
Gale,
You were right. I thoroughly uninstalled my SB Audigy 2 drivers and carefully installed and the Audigy_SupportPack_4_5 from Daniel_K and now Audacity is working correctly. Thanks for your help.