Re: [Flexradio] I recovered from the Fatal Error syndrome!!!

Tim Excellent tip. Downloaded the latest ATI drivers for my FireGL X1-128, uninstalled the old drivers (ugh forgot what a crummy display BASIC windows video drivers produce), cold boot & W2k FOUND new video device, hit cancel, ran ATI setup & !voila! display is good in P8 with DirectX now. There

[Flexradio] Preview 8 observations

First off, I want to join the others in complimenting Eric and crew for a really great release.  The following are my observations so far.   Hardware/software used: AMD Athlon 2X 64 4400+ (~2.2 Ghz) with 1 GB RAM NVIDIA GeForce 6200 graphics controller Delta 44 .NET 2.0 and DirectX

Re: [Flexradio] Arrrrg Release Notes omission: polyphase FFT

>I attach my "worst case difference" screen captures. One is blackham >harris operating on a pure tone. The other is polyphase operating on >exactly the same tone. I presume you can see the difference here. Certainly can - most impressive. To demonstrate this for myself I used an Elecraft XG

Re: [Flexradio] Congratulations Phil Covington

Hi Eric, I am sorry to have missed the teamspeak forum and the Xylo forum this week, having been preoccupied with wrapping up some other projects before I start the new job on Monday. After things settle down in a week or so I will get back to the SDR fun. Overall, this move should allow me mor

Re: [Flexradio] Congratulations Phil Covington

Hi Cecil, The microscope has an 8" working distance. The 10X magnification seems about right. 73 de Phil On 12/18/05, KD5NWA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Wow, I like that microscope, vision problems is a big issue with me, I find > it very difficult to work with all this SMT stuff. But if yo

Re: [Flexradio] Arrrrg Release Notes omission: polyphase FFT

Indeed. The thing people will probably notice most quickly in our narrow bandwidth zoomed windows (given the horrid key clicks on most CW transmitters) is that the "detail" in the noise floor and in the "speech formants", etc. become sharper and more detailed. It is a win and the increased co

Re: [Flexradio] Preview 8 DirectX

Phil, This is something that I will be trying on Monday and it is a good idea. I had hoped to automate that process, but it looks like it will just have to be a selection. It is strange that you would get different behavior just because the first attempt to create the DirectX device with hardwar

Re: [Flexradio] Preview 8 DirectX

Hi Eric, On 12/18/05, FlexRadio - Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Phil, > > This is something that I will be trying on Monday and it is a good idea. I > had hoped to automate that process, but it looks like it will just have to > be a selection. It is strange that you would get different behav

Re: [Flexradio] I recovered from the Fatal Error syndrome!!!

Tim Ellison wrote: OK, here is the skinny. After reading all the posts today on the Fatal Error Syndrome, it kept occurring to me that something in the video driver / DirectX arena was probably the culprit, so I focused my energy there. I ran DXDIAG, an it said everything was fine and dandy,

Re: [Flexradio] Beta 8, DirectX, new AGC, use of FFTW3

Bob/Eric, I did a bit of comparison between different versions I had installed and found that on my hardware, preview 8 runs with about the same CPU consumption as preview 1. Preview 7 was a significant cpu hog on my config for some reason. fft_wisdom was run on all versions and I imported the

Re: [Flexradio] I recovered from the Fatal Error syndrome!!!

John, The only way I get my CPU utilization down is to cause an Unhandled Exception. Once that happens, CPU utilization is about 3% -Tim --- Tim Ellison ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) Integrated Technical Services ( http://www.itsco.com ) -Original Message- From: w2agn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

[Flexradio] CPU 30-45%

Well I downloaded 8 today and my cpu is at 30-45%...But works good..Bob

[Flexradio] ver 8 downloads on 4 different computers

I just tried downloading version 8 to 4 different computers.   Gateway P4 2.4 GHz 1 M Mem Windows 2000--Loaded fine Gateway P4 1.8 GHz 512 mem XP--Loaded fine Compaq Presario 2100 Lap Tp AMD 2.1 GHz XP Home could not complete program loading Home built P4 1.8 GHz 512 Mem XP-could not complete

[Flexradio] Info for users of graphics adapters based on NVIDIA chipsets

I found the web site that will tell you more than you really want to know about how to install and tweak graphics adapters based on NVIDIA chip sets with DirectX and OpenGL. http://www.tweakguides.com/NVFORCE_1.html -Tim --- Tim Ellison Integrated Technical Services

[Flexradio] CPU & utilization video driver corruption with Preview 8

Eric, Here is an observation or two and not a necessarily a commentary on higher CPU utilization with DirectX In DirectX mode, I get a bunch of Unhandled Exception errors when using the GUI (clicking on buttons and such). If I click on the button to continue, CPU utilization goes from 25% to 3%

Re: [Flexradio] CPU & utilization video driver corruption with Preview 8

At 11:16 AM 12/18/2005, Tim Ellison wrote: Eric, Here is an observation or two and not a necessarily a commentary on higher CPU utilization with DirectX In DirectX mode, I get a bunch of Unhandled Exception errors when using the GUI (clicking on buttons and such). If I click on the button to c

[Flexradio] Preview 8 Remarks

Well gang, seeing that I was using preview 8 with my softrock, still thinking about another sdr1000... Sony Vaio Desktop Pentium 4 3.0 GHz 504 MB Ram Windows XP home, now Pro Firebox 45 - 50% CPU Was really happy with the result until I tried DirectX, then I restarted to a blank screen. No

Re: [Flexradio] Preview 8 Remarks

Its a stock RB-40

Re: [Flexradio] CPU & utilization video driver corruption with Preview 8

Wow. There is no way that I know of that would cause PowerSDR to automatically go from DirectX to GDI+ as you described. More likely, whatever is hanging up the DirectX stuff crashes upon subsequent calls and then it quits doing whatever it was doing before, thus freeing up the cycles. After thi

Re: [Flexradio] CPU & utilization video driver corruption with Preview 8

OK. I can believe that once the DirectX stuff crashes, then it quits what it is doing. The display continues to work (for a little while), but it is very unstable. Eventually the exceptions will actually crash the entire application and that is when I get video (something?) corruption that so fa

Re: [Flexradio] Preview 8 observations

More preview 8 observations: I am running an Asus  Pentium 4 cpu, 3.2 Ghz, and 1 Gbyte ram, Radeon 9600 series video, Delta 44 sound card. In the SDR setup screens, Display tab, Direct X was chosen for the Driver Engine and Polyphase FFT is enabled.  When preview 8 is first initialized cpu usa

[Flexradio] DirectX

Given the notes and personal experiences here is my suggestion. Put your machines in GDI+ and leave them there. The potential damage from our clearly buggy directX implementation is not worth the risk. FFTW3 all by itself is a win and the AGC is just awesome. It still needs some minor tweaki

[Flexradio] Preview 8 Report

I turned on both Direct X and Polyphase FFT - not sure what that is - got errors-unhandled exception- but had the option to continue which I did. CPU usage has been running about 7-10%. It had been running a few hours. I just restarted the console and now its about 30% + or - 5 % All drivers a

[Flexradio] ver 8 now working

I downloaded latest version Directx 6.0. ver 8 now works on my computer. John