Well I havent had too many dongle problems. Apart from the licence control software crashing for 3 hours until I found out a way to install the LCC software while uninstalling the old software at the same time using command prompt (the shit we have to go through to get a £500 piece of software working eh?). I was scared shitless for those 3 hours however.
Just seems to be less stable. Getting lots of lockups. If I change the latency of my 24/96 ASIO drivers in cubase the entire thing makes lots of noise and locks up. Despite the fact that when I reopen it, the changes have been saved and run fine at the latency setting I give it. Now and again though, I will get intense latency in the sense that pressing the stop button wont make the project stop playing for half a second to a second. This seems to vary and saying that I have tried to recreate the problem over the last few day but to no avail, so I guess that ones cleared itself up.
I was doing a bit of recording last night and it locked up while recording. It continued playing, but nothing would happen when I pressed anything. The worst part about these lockups is that they lockup my entire computer and I have to reset the damn thing.
I'm pretty sure all my pc needs is a good windows reinstall (if theres such thing as a good windows install), but its just sucky how SX2 ran so smoothly and SX3 seems to be so glitchy. I also hate rebuilding my pc. It means I have to find something to do other than with a computer while it sepnds hours formatting.
One other thing. If I format and reinstall windows, am I going to have to fuck around with Steinberg to get my dongle working again? I'm not sure how it works with Cubase. I know that with some audio software you have to reauthenticate your software after a new install due to it being keyed to that install. That would suck. Does Cubase do this or is the fact that you have a dongle enough?
Cheers
