Please help! pd extended no longer working on my windows 7

booth

I had been running Pd-extended 0.43.4 unproblematically on my Windows 7 (64), but last night after working on some routine patches I tried to open Pd and got a 'Pd.exe has stopped working'. I rebooted and the problem persisted. I uninstalled and re-installed, re-downloaded and re-installed and I keep getting the same error message:

Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
Application Name: pd.exe
Application Version: 0.43.0.0
Application Timestamp: 5100f299
Fault Module Name: pd.dll
Fault Module Version: 0.0.0.0
Fault Module Timestamp: 5100f298
Exception Code: c0000005
Exception Offset: 0005300a
OS Version: 6.1.7601.2.1.0.256.1
Locale ID: 4105
Additional Information 1: 0a9e
Additional Information 2: 0a9e372d3b4ad19135b953a78882e789
Additional Information 3: 0a9e
Additional Information 4: 0a9e372d3b4ad19135b953a78882e789

One possible hint is that Pd-Vanilla seems to work, but gives me a "audio I/O is stuck . . . closing audio" message unless it's in "standard (MMIO)", in which case it seems to work.

If anybody has any suggestions, please help! Without access to Pd, I feel like I'm locked out of my house.

booth

Thanks for the reply.

Unfortunately, deleting the registry didn't help.
I restored to the earliest point I had (about 9 days ago - before the patch), but now I'm in the messy terrain where I can neither run the program ("Can't find a usable init.tcl in the following directories. . .") or uninstall (". . . pd/unins000.dat does not exist. . ."). Unfortunately now, also Pd-Vanilla no longer runs, even after I undid the system restore. Yikes. Other than reformatting Windows, does anybody have another suggestions? getting desperate.

mashafalkov

Hi, I've just suffered through the same problem that you posted, down to every last detail of the error report.. Deleting the pd-extended section in the registry didn't help, reinstalling didn't help, downloading the new version, etc. Out of desperation I right-clicked on it and chose "run as administrator". It worked. Try running pd-extended as administrator and see if it happens. Good luck!