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Hey community,

I have the following problem. I have downloaded LMMS for Windows XP 32 bit. ANd then, when I try to start LMMS, the logo appears but it doesn't switch to the main windows, where I can edit songs and create songs. I hope you understand what I mean. Did someone had the same problem?
I have Linux 1.1.3
I have downloaded LMMS for Windows XP 32 bit
but -you need a linux distro of LMMS if you run it on linux
Eg the one that 'fit' your linux from this page:
https://lmms.io/download/#linux

The win32 is meant for installing on windows OS only!
You do however need to have wine installed if you plan to use VSTs
I have Windows XP not Linux. And I don't understand you completely. linux distro, what is that? Where do I have to download this? Thank you for your answer.
Because you wrote:
anka wrote:Hey community,
I have Linux 1.1.3
I too assumed you were using Linux. But you prob mean you got lmms 1.1.3 ?

Besides the o.s, also please tell us, what is you're cpu ( processor) and ram ?
I have Linux 1.1.3
you then mean - I have LMMS 1.1.3
and ON win xp..
Other story completely
Ok
That xp what service pack?

and
please post your:
* hardware specification (ram & soundcard is the most imortant)
* lmms sound device chosen

Lmms runs fine on xpn with sp2 or 3
Is your xp .. 'clean' or dubious (pirated) -Some times components are missing from dubious sources...
Hello LMMSWizards

Now I've tried to start up LMMS up on Windows 7 professional in five different ways:

1) Simply installed the 64 bit version of 1.1.3
2) Removed the 64 bit version and installed the 32 bit version of 1.1.3
3) Removed the 32 bit version and installed the 64 bit version of 1.1.2
4) Ran a Windows update for a couple of hours (bad internet) - several reboots and at last got an option to install a newer Visual C++ library - intalled it.
5) Reinstalled the 64 bit version of 1.1.3 - still no luck
6) Removed previous installation and downloaded the portable apps version of LMMs v. 1.1.3

Same problem - Program won't start up on my machine - which I think is a great pitty, as I have had it running on another machine 5 months ago without any problems...

I do have the option to start this machine up with another OS (AV-Linux) - however I need access to windows only drivers for some of my hardware, especially my Zoom R16...

I'd love to give more technical details however I don't know how to debug what's happening during the start up of the program in Windows (Linux is another matter...) .
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Cheers Måns Mårtensson (Teacher from Denmark)
I appear to have the exact same issue as måns. Same error dialog, very similar system, and pretty much the same fixes attempted with no luck. I even thought it was maybe a QuickTime problem, as I saw some files being installed that had "qt" in them — so I installed the latest version of QT, uninstalled and reinstalled LMMS; noticed I had QT Lite installed, so uninstalled both that and the actual QT installation, uninstalled & reinstalled LMMS; installed several versions of the C++ runtime libraries from Microsoft's website; and tried both 64-bit and 32-bit LMMS installs of the latest version (1.1.3), v1.1.0, and v1.0.99. Oh, and I also tried running the 32-bit version in "compatibility mode" (as Windows XP, SP3). I have full administrator privileges, btw. Nothing worked. Got the same error message (as seen in måns' screenshot above) every time.

I was able to install the 32-bit version of LMMS on my laptop, which is running a dual install of Windows XP and Linux Ubuntu (both versions worked like a charm there). But the laptop is slow as beans, with a (relatively) tiny screen, so I'd rather not have to run it there. (For a brief moment, I considered installing a Linux partition on this computer, too — but honestly, I've got enough stuff on this thing already! :lol: )

One other thing I was wondering: could this possibly be a Java issue? I disabled Java on my main computer last year after hearing all sorts of bad things about its security problems.

Anyway, here are my pertinent specs on the machine that had the problem running LMMS (I'm also including a list of processes running at the time of the error):

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HARDWARE/OS
Windows Version: Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate Edition Service Pack 1 (build 7601), 64-bit
Processor
  Identifier: Intel64 Family 6 Model 44 Stepping 2
  Name: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU       X 980  @ 3.33GHz
  Speed: 3.3 GHz
Memory
  Physical Memory: 24 GB
  Virtual Memory: 67 GB
Audio 	SupremeFX X-Fi 2 Built-in 
- 8-channel High Definition Audio CODEC 
- EAX® Advanced™ HD 5.0 
- THX TrueStudio PC 
- X-Fi® Xtreme Fidelity™ 
- Creative ALchemy 
Screen Resolution: 1920x1200
Logical Storage Device
  Local Disk (C:): 118.9 GB (7.0 GB free) - it's an SSD
  1TB #2 (D:): 931.4 GB (144.3 GB free)
  
RUNNING PROCESSES
  
Image Name                     PID Session Name        Session#    Mem Usage
========================= ======== ================ =========== ============
System Idle Process              0 Services                   0         24 K
System                           4 Services                   0      6,464 K
smss.exe                       420 Services                   0      1,580 K
csrss.exe                      520 Services                   0      7,320 K
wininit.exe                    608 Services                   0      5,616 K
csrss.exe                      620 Console                    1     26,828 K
services.exe                   660 Services                   0     14,840 K
lsass.exe                      676 Services                   0     19,304 K
lsm.exe                        684 Services                   0      5,640 K
winlogon.exe                   772 Console                    1      9,420 K
svchost.exe                    832 Services                   0     13,912 K
svchost.exe                    916 Services                   0     13,140 K
svchost.exe                    184 Services                   0     31,772 K
svchost.exe                    176 Services                   0     22,540 K
svchost.exe                    328 Services                   0     40,748 K
svchost.exe                    488 Services                   0     82,492 K
svchost.exe                   1060 Services                   0      9,028 K
svchost.exe                   1232 Services                   0     56,860 K
spoolsv.exe                   1368 Services                   0     23,728 K
svchost.exe                   1396 Services                   0     30,040 K
svchost.exe                   1488 Services                   0     15,412 K
ekrn.exe                      1544 Services                   0    165,664 K
svchost.exe                   1652 Services                   0     15,800 K
PDAgent.exe                   1824 Services                   0     20,892 K
svchost.exe                   1892 Services                   0      4,300 K
slickvpnsrvc.exe              1912 Services                   0      9,964 K
snmp.exe                      1944 Services                   0      9,684 K
svchost.exe                   1976 Services                   0      9,364 K
PDEngine.exe                  2552 Services                   0     27,176 K
WmiPrvSE.exe                  2708 Services                   0     26,536 K
svchost.exe                   2936 Services                   0      7,156 K
taskhost.exe                  2992 Console                    1     12,260 K
dwm.exe                       2832 Console                    1    263,040 K
explorer.exe                  3016 Console                    1    126,608 K
taskeng.exe                   3104 Console                    1      8,668 K
AsRoutineController.exe       3192 Console                    1     10,856 K
LCore.exe                     3408 Console                    1     74,360 K
egui.exe                      3416 Console                    1     44,212 K
TeaTimer.exe                  3424 Console                    1     77,888 K
GFIAgent.exe                  3444 Console                    1     13,904 K
sidebar.exe                   3452 Console                    1  2,630,008 K
chrome.exe                    3480 Console                    1     29,440 K
robotaskbaricon.exe           3548 Console                    1     25,736 K
DirectoryMonitor.exe          3636 Console                    1    156,404 K
Rainmeter.exe                 3680 Console                    1     26,996 K
SABnzbd.exe                   3688 Console                    1     73,496 K
SickBeard.exe                 3724 Console                    1     67,608 K
slickvpn.exe                  3760 Console                    1    556,548 K
speedfan.exe                  3820 Console                    1    192,068 K
svchost.exe                   5000 Services                   0     21,172 K
aaCenter.exe                  3152 Console                    1     10,492 K
AI Suite II.exe               4984 Console                    1     25,104 K
PDAgentS1.exe                 3228 Console                    1      6,580 K
Explorer++.exe                5840 Console                    1     88,200 K
SMSvcHost.exe                 6764 Services                   0     20,680 K
chrome.exe                   11660 Console                    1      9,976 K
taskhost.exe                 11880 Console                    1     17,720 K
thunderbird.exe              17772 Console                    1    259,008 K
firefox.exe                   7728 Console                    1    458,276 K
plugin-container.exe          9572 Console                    1     21,552 K
chrome.exe                    9440 Console                    1    150,960 K
chrome.exe                    4532 Console                    1     47,516 K
chrome.exe                    6428 Console                    1     35,756 K
chrome.exe                   14684 Console                    1    118,648 K
chrome.exe                   15848 Console                    1     43,188 K
chrome.exe                    6040 Console                    1     55,616 K
chrome.exe                   17228 Console                    1     39,548 K
chrome.exe                    7948 Console                    1    100,924 K
chrome.exe                   14048 Console                    1    110,472 K
chrome.exe                    7832 Console                    1     37,724 K
chrome.exe                    7120 Console                    1     41,796 K
chrome.exe                   14052 Console                    1     36,836 K
chrome.exe                    7136 Console                    1     34,496 K
chrome.exe                   15288 Console                    1     33,612 K
chrome.exe                   15284 Console                    1     37,268 K
cmd.exe                       2912 Console                    1      4,092 K
conhost.exe                  16488 Console                    1      6,628 K
rf-chrome-nm-host.exe        13276 Console                    1     24,548 K
chrome.exe                    5568 Console                    1    103,616 K
chrome.exe                   13608 Console                    1     95,532 K
chrome.exe                   14352 Console                    1     58,952 K
chrome.exe                   15516 Console                    1     79,036 K
chrome.exe                   14308 Console                    1    103,972 K
chrome.exe                   14980 Console                    1     69,496 K
chrome.exe                   14380 Console                    1     78,036 K
chrome.exe                   16868 Console                    1    106,716 K
chrome.exe                   14788 Console                    1     77,640 K
chrome.exe                   15296 Console                    1     70,964 K
chrome.exe                   10164 Console                    1     82,108 K
chrome.exe                   14700 Console                    1    100,860 K
chrome.exe                   14340 Console                    1     84,272 K
chrome.exe                   14808 Console                    1     76,768 K
chrome.exe                   14832 Console                    1     95,376 K
notepad.exe                  16968 Console                    1      7,816 K
notepad.exe                  11488 Console                    1      8,508 K
cmd.exe                       6880 Console                    1      4,000 K
conhost.exe                   1720 Console                    1      6,980 K
taskhost.exe                  9356 Services                   0     14,444 K
lmms.exe                      6820 Console                    1     54,572 K
audiodg.exe                  13516 Services                   0     20,872 K
Any assistance or suggestions about other things I might try would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
first off, sad to see people that has installation problems, and also surprised.
Måns, i think you just maybe has lmms 'garbage' on your system, from one of the earlier installation attempts, before you upgraded your visualC libs.
So the first thing you should try, is to remove everything:

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1)    Uninstall from control panel*

2)
(Right click CMD, run as Administrator)
Delete C:\Program Files\LMMS:
	del  "%programfiles%\LMMS"
	del  "%programfiles(x86)%\LMMS"

Move MOVE! -config file .lmmsrc.xml:
	move "%userprofile%\.lmmsrc.xml" "%userprofile%\.lmmsrc.bak"
After that, you should try to run a repair sequence for you windows. I suspect that there may be missing or damaged components, often installing games mess activex up, and there could be something wrong with sound-support files, but im only guessing :/

@Data - your system is more than able to run lmms !
I understand your confusion around qt, but its a 'different' qt
First you must also clean your installation for old installs, and making a repair would proplerly also be an idea, but to be dead honest, i dont know why you have these issues. I have done 100' ths of install uninstalls of lmms with different sp and different setups, and i have never had any issues at all - im really puzzled
...ofcause we have stuff as malware and vira, but... again, i just cant see any relations.... :|
@Data, @måns: This is a known bug that happens with the portaudio libs. You should read https://github.com/LMMS/lmms/issues/512 and https://github.com/LMMS/lmms/issues/1173
umcaruje wrote:@Data, @måns: This is a known bug that happens with the portaudio libs. You should read https://github.com/LMMS/lmms/issues/512 and https://github.com/LMMS/lmms/issues/1173
Thank you! Those threads led me to locating a solution. At least the 32-bit version works for me now — and honestly, that's probably the one I'd be more likely to use, as I don't have many VST plugins that are 64-bit.

Here's what I did:
  • Go to your LMMS installation folder (for me, C:\Program Files (x86)\LMMS)
    Rename "libportaudio-2.dll" to "libportaudio-2.dll.old"
    Go to https://code.google.com/p/portaudioshar ... dll&can=2&
    Download "PortAudio.dll"
    Rename it to "libportaudio-2.dll"
    Copy or move it to your LMMS installation folder
With this simple fix, LMMS started up like a charm! Now I'm looking forward to digging in and playing. 8-) And you may just see me on some of the other boards here, if I get especially confused by something else (it has been known to happen... once or twice).

I appreciate the help! Hope it works for you, too, måns.