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Please, give me a hand if you know what is goin on... Pulsar has been doing it for a couple of days, I don't know why, but it's serious cos it destroys your projects, you can no longer load them...

When I open a project, Pulsar would not let me load it and will cos a blue screen and then appears this:


PULSAR caused an invalid page fault in
module KERNEL32.DLL at 0177:bff9db61.
Registers:
EAX=c00309c4 CS=0177 EIP=bff9db61 EFLGS=00210216
EBX=00e7fe28 SS=017f ESP=00d7ff74 EBP=00d80210
ECX=00000000 DS=017f ESI=00000000 FS=2adf
EDX=bff76855 ES=017f EDI=bff79198 GS=0000
Bytes at CS:EIP:
53 8b 15 e4 9c fc bf 56 89 4d e4 57 89 4d dc 89
Stack dump:


<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: Nestor on 2002-05-05 02:48 ]</font>

Well, I remember now that this problem started just after I downloaded some free VSTis from the net...

Hi Nestor. Whenever Pulsar gave me a kernel32 crash I was able to fix it by re-installing the current version (3.01 + patches). This is a cure-all for numerous Pulsar system file corruptions - which would occur every time I ran a *.oxe installer, or even put new *.dsp files in the app/dsp folder. With version 3.1 around the corner (tomorrow?), you might want to hold out, but if you need a quick fix, the old reinstall method never let me down.

BTW, it doesn't seem likely that a VSTi caused this, unless it changed some windows/system files (which would make it a very dangerous instrument - usually these things are just *.dll files that you place in the VSTPlugin folder)..in which case a Pulsar reinstall probably wouldn't repair that. You could try MS Libraries Update:

http://www.microsoft.com/windows98/down ... efault.asp

This restores 9 crucial windows files that are often overwritten by other installers.
Good luck.

/dave

Check your pulsar folder, I noticed similar problems after some plugins automatically got installed into c:pulsarvstplugins a folder which I'm sure is supposed to be there.

I guess if you've installed Pulsar with the XTC option you might encounter problems when you add a new VSTi. I tried XTC when it first appeared, found it to be fairly useless and installing it changed the registry value for "VSTPluginsPath" (in
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESoftwareVST) to Pulsar/VstPlugins which is very wrong, and caused my VST plugins to become hidden from many applications. I've removed XTC and never looked at it again.
/dave

XTC looked like a waste of time to me too!

It's fun for mastering though Once everything is recorded as audio, I like to run XTC mode.

Thanks for your answers guys, I´ll see what I can do. There are some of the projects now, that can be loaded, some others can´t and are self-anihilated in the loading proces.

Thanks indeed.