Cubase 4.1 upgrade problems

[H-Rave]

I was just looking on the steinberg site when I came across this.I know people have been having problems.Apparently it could be a windows installer problem.

http://forum.cubase.net/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?t=82851

[garyb]

i wish you could hear me howl with laughter when i read this: "but I can't get Cubase to play at 96 kHz over my Digi 9652 Hammerfall.... "

or this: "I was having a crash issue just like jhamman - after examining the Windows error report file (time consuming to say the least) I discovered that among other things it listed the ReWire.dll. I renamed the dll, and started Cubase (Studio 4) and it didn't crash." what? no Asio and no rewire either?

..but Steinberg will just tell their trusting customers that it's their Scope card's poor asio drivers that is the reason things don't work, not just a poorly written, buggy update to Cubase...

i have always praised Cubase as a program regardless of it's faults, but Yamaha has really made a mess of Cubase4.

[H-Rave]

Personally I got the upgrade from sx 3 straight to 4.1 and I don't have any problems, neither with scope 4.5 or the Tascam FW 1884, which already works on Vista. I got SX 3 + dongle + DVD,second hand for 250 Euros the upgrade cost 165 euros with delivery.There's no way I'm complaining.I think alot of problems come from needing a good graphics card in general, I've never had midi problems, less so with scope than the Tascam.

[audioman]

Since the update of Cubase 4.1 I have Asio problems. There are spikes in the asio performance meter which cause hick ups in the audio playback. I have checked the CPU performance and that is steady at a very low level (2%).

I have scope 4.0. My understanding is that there is no change to the asio drivers compared to scope 4.5?

With Cubase 4.0 I did not have this problem and have always used the system at low latency settings.

It is also strange sometimes the problem is worse than other times. I have tried to eliminate al causes. Even in a new cubase project with few audio track this problem occurs (nu plugins etc active). Especially when I record soemthing it hicks up at play back. After I have played it a couple of times it is like it has learned to play the file and the problems dissapear. Spooky.

I first thought is was the hard drive (seperate audio drive raid mirror) but the performance monitor in XP does not show long cues.

Any ideas? Are there people that have Cubase 4.1 running without asio hick ups?