Plz help. Odd lag

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Hello, I was starting to record a song today and something really odd happened. In cubase, when I move either the left or right marker to set the time for my recording it lags very badly, even with absolutly no audio open. I then went into soundforge 7, and Im getting lag (as in my mouse chops all over the screen) when I play a file, and I've tried various small 16 bit 44.1 Khz files.

I know its not my system because Ive changed nothing and have had zero problems with performance/glitches until today. My processor is 2.8 Ghz, 256 MB DDR ram, 64 MB video card, and my audio card is a EMU 1820. Ive since uninstalled and re-installed the drivers for my soundcard to no avail, as sound still works but my recording software is performing terrably. I did a full PC scan for viruses and have come out clean. Defragged, checked discs for errors, I have only a few programs set at start up, my hard drive isnt even a quarter ways full, checked the PC for software conflicts and found none.

I was thinking about re-installing cubase and soundforge, but what are the odds both programs would corrupt?

As I said, Ive never had problems with this before, and the only thing Ive even installed on the machine since I last recorded was a video game.

Any ideas? Help maybe?
 
Tried a System restore back to a point it was working OK?
 
No I havent tried a system restore yet, thats going to be my very last resort as im afraid to lose the data Ive gotten past the point of which I made a restore point.

In anycase, I think im going to get some blank CD's and burn the things I dont want to lose, and maybe I'll do a system restore, though Im going to try every other avenue first.
 
The system restore won't touch your data, just system files, registry, drivers etc.
 
Thats exsactly what I like to hear.

Well Im off to try a system restore, Ill be back to let you know how it went.

Thanks.
 
Well I did 2 rollbacks, they werent successful, so I decided to "rollback" toward the present, infact I rolled back to today before I even rolled anything back, and man somthin must of clicked cause my audio is working perfectly again.

There were some downfalls though. Alot of programs were either (a) not here anymore, or (b) half installed or corrupted. One of my drum tracks dissapeared, and some drivers were gone, such as my updated graphics driver. HOWEVER, it was well worth it as I can get back to my main priority which is making music, so THANKS for your help! I would never have thought of a rollback.

BTW, I could be wrong, but just incase I'm not Im going to state this anyway. Im not posative on the "presice" time my audio programs went all funny, but I know it was fine up untill a few days ago when I installed the new EMU drivers (I beleive its 1.03?). When I did the 2 restores for whatever reason my patchmix and drivers were still installed. On my attempt to rollback the last time the patchmix and everything was gone, it came up "found new hardware", so I completly reinstalled the EMU software, and now everythings working. Its funny because I uninstalled and reinstalled the new drivers to no avail prior to my rollbacks. Just a heads up.

BTW, a question to EMU 1820/1820M users. Do your audio go all crappy at times? like white noise when using the WDM drivers? I knew the WDM drivers had problems prior to when I baught the card (another words I'm not blaming anyone) but in certain programs the sound craps out amazingly bad depressingly oftan. It works fine when recording but I think that has to do with the fact its using ASIO drivers. I know its a new card and all, but man oh man it turns to white noise so oftan in things like games that I'm starting to wonder if my card is defective. I remember someone from EMU saying they were working on the problem, but does anyone have any info on it? It would be much appretiated.

Anyways, thanks for your help guys.
 
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