Hi,

I’m having the dreaded “audio I/O stuck” problem for the first time. I’ve searched the archives to try to find a quick fix, but it seems to be a recurring problem with no obvious solution. Is that the case?

I’ve got the problem running on two machines: my production machine (which has a hammerfall9652, no problem until today) and a brand new Compaq laptop. The problem happens in both cases.

On the production machine, I’ve added some –path and –lib flags to my the .bat file that launches pd. I’m not quite sure yet which external or library is actually causing the problem (it may take a while to troubleshoot, having to restart each time.) After the audio gets stuck, even if I restart, just launching pd.exe on its own gets “audio I/O stuck”, which I don’t understand.

What does I/O stuck mean? Does that mean the drivers are hogged by some other application? Or do I have a bogus ‘lock’ file somewhere that makes windows think the driver is in use?

Which raises the question: is there a way to explicitly free the driver right before launching pd?

Thanks!

- martin