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Topic: Fireface 400 with legacy drivers sluggish and slow

Hi!

I am using a  PCI-E card (Sonnet Allegro Express FW400) to connect my Fireface to my system. I always had to use the legacy drivers (1394 OHCI Compilant Host Controller) for my card, or otherwise I would get the BSOD.

Now I have updated to WIN 1903 and since then, the FF settings and  Cubase altogether are totally slow. I literally takes 2 seconds to change tabs in the FF settings. I can't play any of my music without dropouts and stuttering.

So I tried the non-legacy driver: Everything worked fine again, until there was another BSOD and then another one....


What can I do? Get another FW PCI card? Sonnet is usually a very reliable company...

Here are my specs:
Win 1903
64GB Ram
Gigabyte Z370 HD3-CF (U3E1) Motherboard
Intel Core i7-8700K CPU @ 3.70GHz

Please help! I rely on my machine!

Thanks,
Matt

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Re: Fireface 400 with legacy drivers sluggish and slow

I would reinstall the legacy driver and retry, maybe during the Win 10 upgrade something became screwed up.

Make backups (Disk Images) of the boot disk with Windows (-> Macrium Reflect) to be able to restore just for the case something is getting even worse.

BR Ramses - UFX III, 12Mic, XTC, ADI-2 Pro FS R BE, RayDAT, X10SRi-F, E5-1680v4, Win10Pro22H2, Cub13
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Re: Fireface 400 with legacy drivers sluggish and slow

If this doesnt cure the situation, then you might go back to the previous version and wait a little and retry the upgrade later in the hope some more things have been fixed by Microsoft ? Or even try the new 1909.

But in any case whatever you do ... before any change make a disk image of your System Disk !

BR Ramses - UFX III, 12Mic, XTC, ADI-2 Pro FS R BE, RayDAT, X10SRi-F, E5-1680v4, Win10Pro22H2, Cub13
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Re: Fireface 400 with legacy drivers sluggish and slow

Thanks for the reply! I already tried to reinstall both, the FF400 drivers and the legacy FW drivers. But without success...

Can anyone recommend a reliable PCI-E Firewire 400 card?

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Re: Fireface 400 with legacy drivers sluggish and slow

Firewire Karte: Exsys EX-16415, 3x FireWire 800/1x FireWire, PCIe x1 (TI XIO2213B)
https://www.heise.de/preisvergleich/exs … 75938.html

BR Ramses - UFX III, 12Mic, XTC, ADI-2 Pro FS R BE, RayDAT, X10SRi-F, E5-1680v4, Win10Pro22H2, Cub13

6 Reply by matt0815 (edited by matt0815 2019-11-16 14:08:12)

  • Registered: 2012-09-22
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Re: Fireface 400 with legacy drivers sluggish and slow

Thanks - I will have a look at it!