ASIO Audio drivers - Render hangs at 100%

ingvarai wrote on 12/17/2009, 11:12 AM
I have been plagued with the "render hangs at 100%" problem that others also have sometimes. The cause is found - it is the ASIO audio drivers I am using.
I cannot even render to WAV! Whenever any audio rendering takes place, render hangs at 100% - I have to kill Vegas the hard way. If I render to video with no audio, all is fine, so it is the audio that is the problem.

All is fine when switching to the Microsoft Sound Mapper.
But I have to use ASIO, since this is what my my external sound card uses, with MIDI and 8 channels in/out and balanced XLR mic inputs.
What I have to do now, is to switch back and forth between the ASIO and the the Microsoft Sound Mapper all the time, depending on whether I am recording or rendering.
There has to be a simpler way!

Comments

Streamworks Audio wrote on 12/18/2009, 1:28 PM
That is odd considering the Audio Drivers are not even part of the rendering (to file) equation. Which ASIO drivers are you using?

Chris

Edit: I have no idea why this message was posted three times (and deleted by me) below....
ingvarai wrote on 12/19/2009, 5:36 PM
Hi Chris,

your post helped me out, believe it or not!
To reply, I was "forced" to visit the web site of the manufacturer of my ESI 1010 sound card, since device manager only reported "unknown driver". And I was surprised to find an updated driver from 23rd of October. The previous one was from 16th of September. I had never dreamt of them releasing an updated driver so soon. Especially since we ESI users had to wait so long to get 64 bit drivers and the normal release frequency was more than a year.

Guess what - updating the drivers solved the problem! I do not know why and how the previous drivers made Vegas' render screen hang forever, but it was one of my biggest concerns when I started to record narrations directly and I had to use ASIO instead of the MS drivers.
Thanks again for replying!
BTW: Here is my external sound card ESI 1010

Ingvar