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I took a load of laundry to the basement today and figured I would spend a bit of time in the studio today looking at some Cubase features and seeing if I could learn a few things. I learned a few things, but they weren't what I intended to learn.
The video on the studio computer has been a little glitchy in the Chrome browser lately, for reasons that I don't understand, but it's dropping boxes of flashing text onto the wrong spot on the screen. This is not good. After staring at this for a bit, I decided that maybe I should try updating the video drivers. So I went to the Nvidia site and let it download the GeForce Experience app and install it. I also pulled down the latest Windows 10 update in case that was the problem. And then I fired up Cubase.
The screen was now a complete mess (I mean, garbage and bad vector graphics everywhere) and the system crashed, eventually blue screening. This was followed by Windows doing the recovery dance, checking the hard drive, failing a boot, and eventually getting its act back together.
Off to a Google search which suggested that I needed to make sure that I had the latest Cubase version installed (I was one minor -- bug-fix level -- release behind) and that I should uninstall all of the Nvidea software and reinstall *just* the video driver. Ok, I could do that.
Well, no, I couldn't. The Cubase update install crashed the machine again.
So I made sure that the audio interface was turned off, rebooted, and started uninstalling Nvidea software. A couple of reboots later, it was all gone and I was looking at a VGA-sized screen. Then I installed the latest video driver (from 2018). And then I installed the Cubase point release and fired it up, loading the giant-sized demo project.
Which played correctly with no audio or video glitches.
Further examination indicates that the video card in this machine is an Nvidea GTX 560 TI, which originally started shipping in 2011. I guess that explains why driver releases are few and far between now.
I am really starting to believe that the current studio computer is aging out rapidly.
The video card, however, is not a part that I really wanted to replace in a new build.
*sigh*
The video on the studio computer has been a little glitchy in the Chrome browser lately, for reasons that I don't understand, but it's dropping boxes of flashing text onto the wrong spot on the screen. This is not good. After staring at this for a bit, I decided that maybe I should try updating the video drivers. So I went to the Nvidia site and let it download the GeForce Experience app and install it. I also pulled down the latest Windows 10 update in case that was the problem. And then I fired up Cubase.
The screen was now a complete mess (I mean, garbage and bad vector graphics everywhere) and the system crashed, eventually blue screening. This was followed by Windows doing the recovery dance, checking the hard drive, failing a boot, and eventually getting its act back together.
Off to a Google search which suggested that I needed to make sure that I had the latest Cubase version installed (I was one minor -- bug-fix level -- release behind) and that I should uninstall all of the Nvidea software and reinstall *just* the video driver. Ok, I could do that.
Well, no, I couldn't. The Cubase update install crashed the machine again.
So I made sure that the audio interface was turned off, rebooted, and started uninstalling Nvidea software. A couple of reboots later, it was all gone and I was looking at a VGA-sized screen. Then I installed the latest video driver (from 2018). And then I installed the Cubase point release and fired it up, loading the giant-sized demo project.
Which played correctly with no audio or video glitches.
Further examination indicates that the video card in this machine is an Nvidea GTX 560 TI, which originally started shipping in 2011. I guess that explains why driver releases are few and far between now.
I am really starting to believe that the current studio computer is aging out rapidly.
The video card, however, is not a part that I really wanted to replace in a new build.
*sigh*