Audacity Forum

I'm having the same problem on my work computer (Dell Latitude D820, 2G RAM, Sigmatel Audio+Broadcom Bluetooth, internal LCD=16:9, XP on a domain). I did not have the problem with the prior beta (1.3.1 IIRC), on which I did quite a bit of recording. Input = line in on the sigmatel, output does not appear to matter.

If I have autoscroll turned on, Audacity will crash after a few seconds (5 in my default very-small window). Minimized it appears to be fine.

I've also noticed if I move the slider around quickly while recording - even though scrolling is off - Audacity will crash.

When Audacity does record (I have it minimized) I do not see the gapping issue.

I'm not RAM, CPU, or disk bound on this computer normally, though it had resumed from a suspend before I started the run; I'll reboot later, and then edit or reply.

I don't have much in the way of development tools on this computer, but windbg says
(de8.790): C++ EH exception - code e06d7363 (first chance)
(de8.790): C++ EH exception - code e06d7363 (first chance)
(de8.790): C++ EH exception - code e06d7363 (first chance)
(de8.164c): Stack overflow - code c00000fd (first chance)
First chance exceptions are reported before any exception handling.
This exception may be expected and handled.
eax=03a52000 ebx=feeefeee ecx=00000000 edx=00188af8 esi=01847e90 edi=00000800
eip=00774157 esp=03b4fe88 ebp=03b4fecc iopl=0 nv up ei pl nz na pe nc
cs=001b ss=0023 ds=0023 es=0023 fs=003b gs=0000 efl=00010206
*** ERROR: Symbol file could not be found. Defaulted to export symbols for audacity.exe -
audacity!ExecCommand+0x32b1c7:
00774157 8500 test dword ptr [eax],eax ds:0023:03a52000=00000000

Let me know if I can do anything else for you, my Windows debugging skills are pretty poor but I can do some things...

I'm having the same problem now, and for a test I started Audacity and started recording silence, it went 35 seconds before it shut the computer down.

thoreau wrote:I'm having the same problem now, and for a test I started Audacity and started recording silence, it went 35 seconds before it shut the computer down.

I doubt that you're having "the same problem".

Audacity 1.3.4.
Windows XP prof SP2
Terratec Aureon 5.1 usb mk II
recording through SPDIF-in

After ten seconds of recording Audacity crashes with error message:
"An unhandled exception occurred. Press "Abort" to terminate the program, "retry" to exit the program normally and "ignore" to try to continue."

All all of those details identical to your problem?