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Subject:Acid 2.0d under linux Posted by: egon Date:4/30/2002 4:06:19 PM I have been trying for some time to get Acid Music to work well under linux, and throught I should share my findings... Wine: Getting Acid to run under wine would be great, since wine is free, fast, relatively lightweight, and requires no Micro$oft OS. However, sadly, running acid under wine has not worked well for me. I can get it to start up, but many features cause it to crash. I'm sure this will improve, and no doubt within a few years, wine will be much more stable. I haven't yet tried Transgaming WineX, which might work better since it seems to be focused on media applications (games)... vmWare: I tried running acid in vmWare 3.0 and 3.1, but quickly realized that the sound support is just not good enough yet. The sound is more chop than sound. I played with the 2 hidden sound configuration points, but couldn't get anything usable (even on a fast, 2 gigahertz machine). win4lin: Installing acid 2.0d into winME running inside win4lin 4.0 worked great. However when I tried to run it, it crashed with an error in a dll called ir50_32.dll. But if you delete this file (or more safely, rename it to something like ir50_32.old.dll so it's not found), then acid seems to fall back to using an older version of this dll, and works flawlessly! And the sound quality, speed, and responsiveness seem great! Thank you netraverse! And of course, thank you soundforge for acid music!
Subject:RE: Acid 2.0d under linux Reply by: Chienworks Date:4/30/2002 10:31:24 PM Thanks for the report. This is promising news indeed!

I have been trying for some time to get Acid Music to work well under linux, and throught I should share my findings...

Wine:

Getting Acid to run under wine would be great, since wine is free, fast, relatively lightweight, and requires no Micro$oft OS.

However, sadly, running acid under wine has not worked well for me. I can get it to start up, but many features cause it to crash. I'm sure this will improve, and no doubt within a few years, wine will be much more stable. I haven't yet tried Transgaming WineX, which might work better since it seems to be focused on media applications (games)...

vmWare:

I tried running acid in vmWare 3.0 and 3.1, but quickly realized that the sound support is just not good enough yet. The sound is more chop than sound. I played with the 2 hidden sound configuration points, but couldn't get anything usable (even on a fast, 2 gigahertz machine).

win4lin:

Installing acid 2.0d into winME running inside win4lin 4.0 worked great. However when I tried to run it, it crashed with an error in a dll called ir50_32.dll. But if you delete this file (or more safely, rename it to something like ir50_32.old.dll so it's not found), then acid seems to fall back to using an older version of this dll, and works flawlessly! And the sound quality, speed, and responsiveness seem great! Thank you netraverse! And of course, thank you soundforge for acid music!