OK, I've been through three soundcards, two motherboards, four or five OS re-installations, and weeks of troubleshooting and I still can't get the VE to run on a slave with more than 3 GB of samples. I'm really starting to think it might be a problem with the Syncrosoft license, and here's why:
My MIDI works fine right up to the point where I pass 3 GB of memory allocated to the VE. Since I have 8 GB of RAM installed and am running the 64-bit VE under XP64, I shouldn't be limited by the 3 GB problem. However, there are still some 32-bit processes floating around. So - there's a clear problem at 3 GB, which is VERY LIKELY related to the 32-bit limitation (right?). So, what is running as a 32-bit process? Well, there are four:
hdspmix.exe
hdsp32.exe
SYNSOPOS.EXE
vsldaemon.exe
I know for a fact that there are plenty of folks using the HDSP cards and loading more than 3 GB of samples, so it's probably not the hdspmix.exe or hdsp32.exe. So that leaves the vsldaemon.exe and SYNSOPOS.EXE processes. It must be one of those, right?
In trying to figure out this problem, I have received lots of useful feedback from folks who are running 3+ GB of samples on slave machines with the same hardware. However, there is one difference I have not been able to address: all of the feedback has come from folks running pieces of the cube and I AM RUNNING THE SE.
So, here's the question:
Since the only folks having success with the VE and 3+ GB of samples on a slave have licenses for the cube, is there something about the license for the SE that is causing this problem? That's the ONLY remaining difference that I can see...
Thanks,
rgames