"Scanning DirectX FX" - Reaper suddenly refuses to open - at all. At all. (SOLVED)
Having been away from music making for a while, l made a foray into Reaper again to check out my ReWire setup with some other DAWs.
I believe l updated Windows 7 Pro too.
I did not update Reaper.
I didn't really understand my setup very well, l'd been away too long. I have lots of MIDI controllers, and 2 soundcards, all in the setup.
Anyway, l got tired, ran out of time, shut down. A few days later, l returned, and then it struck.
Open Reaper --> message window "Can't open ReaMote UDP"
click OK
then second message window opens (or as l recall, it opens after a while anyway, even if you do nothing) "Scanning DirectX FX".
And that window never shuts down, even though the ReaMote UDP message window can be shut down.
I can shut both message windows down via Task Manager, but the reaper.exe process remains in Task Manager, it never closes.
I have searched Google and others have had similar problems, which were resolved by:
- Re-starting
- Re-re-re(a)starting until Reaper has magically blocked out all problem FX plugins and it suddenly starts normally again
- Upgrade to new Reaper, having completely uninstalled the old version, including deleting the FX plugins folder
These solutions worked for other people but for me, nada. I literally cannot enter Reaper, at all. At all.
I am thus overjoyed, and am thankful, and humbled ... that l wasn't doing a fucking live set in front of an audience (that l only have a lower tier license doesn't matter really), although l could have just gone accoustic and chatted to them about how l got where l am today?
Solutions welcome.
Anticipating comments that may well appear further down the line in this thread:
- I am being polite to you, don't take it personally, l'm talking tech
- I know you are one of the Old Ones, the Regulars, and you are trying to help me but mixing help with ascerbic putdowns is wankery by any other name (check my message history to see the kind of crap that pops up in every forum from regulars that need to help others n hurt em at the same time, cus they earned the right, right?)
- I'm on Windows 7 Pro 64-bit, self build PC, core i7 something k Haswell CPU, X99 mobo from about 2014-2015 (like the CPU), 16GB RAM.
- I have tried to upload a screenshot of the problem but my pic dimensions were not allowed, so l rescaled, and the dimensions were still not allowed because they were within the limits, but the wrong way round (limit for x axis was limit for y axis, and vice versa), so l rescaled again, and my image was rejected again, because it was woah 240.5kb, which would mean nobody can phone your landline for 30 mins while you download it.
Last edited by Acid; 03-24-2018 at 11:21 AM.
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