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neoufo51
13th April 2010, 06:24
Hi guys, I'm wondering if anybody here is familiar with this issue. It's been happening to me once every couple of weeks since I clean installed Windows 7 and I figured I would start a discussion about it.

Every one in a while. I will start my laptop and attempt to play video on MPC-HC or audio on Foobar2000 and see a full on crash of every player on my system. I am completely unable to play ANYTHING on ANY player until I restart the system, after which, everything is back to normal. To be specific, every player will start up normally, but will become unresponsive and just hang there when I attempt to play any media, even one time where I installed VLC but that crashed as well. Is this a crash from installing the DX9 runtimes on a DX11 enabled system? I have an Nvidia 8400GS card on my Win7 laptop running 195.62 drivers, but the problem persists no matter which driver version I've installed. Also, my soundcard is nothing more than Realtek onboard audio, and the latest manufacturer drivers are installed on that as well.

I'm just wondering if anybody else has experienced this.

PS: MPC-HC is on EVR-CP mode and Foobar is on Directsound mode. Wondering if this is a Directshow issue?
namaiki
13th April 2010, 07:09
Is this a crash from installing the DX9 runtimes on a DX11 enabled system?

No, it is not.
Inspector.Gadget
13th April 2010, 14:26
You have a hardware or system-wide software problem. Foobar2000 doesn't use DirectX unless you're using the Waveform Seekbar, and will never use Directshow unless you're feeding it with the Avisynth plugin using DSS().
neoufo51
14th April 2010, 02:55
You have a hardware or system-wide software problem. Foobar2000 doesn't use DirectX unless you're using the Waveform Seekbar, and will never use Directshow unless you're feeding it with the Avisynth plugin using DSS().
Interesting. Since I don't have any clue as to what it could be, I think I will simply reformat my laptop and keep my system install as clean as possible next time.
Vitaliy Gorbatenko
14th April 2010, 06:19
Install full DirectX. Windows 7 don't include directX9. http://www.free-codecs.com/download/DirectX.htm