Re: Windows 7 64bit mLAN WORKS (I HAVE PROOF)

Steak: I have a Vaio too, but with a Core 2 Duo T9550 CPU. I haven't yet tried Win 7 on it. For some reason Sony tend to supply laptops with 4200rpm drives. Most manufacturers put 5400rpm drives in laptops and some put 7200 rpm drives in. This one had a large capacity 400rpm drive, but I swapped it out for one with a faster rotational speed. It was already responsive having 4GB RAM and a decent CPU, but a slow hard drive certainly will have a negative impact. rather than mucking about having to press F8 at boot time every time, putting Windows 7 in test mode is much more user friendly :-)

I had a problem with mlanstrm.sys on one of the installs I did so what I did was to extract the file from the mLAN driver CAB file and move it to the same location as the others and sign it. Seemed to work OK.

MIDI connections are there via both my mLAN card and the 01v96v2's USB connection. I had to load the 64 bit Yamaha USB driver. Cubase interacts dynamically with the 01v96's motorised faders but outside Cubase Yamaha Studio Manager refuses to see the 01v96v2 - this has to be down to the USB driver as it did this in XP as well, except with the earlier USB drivers which I can't find anywhere on line now.

Your problem might be due to the IEEE1394 interface in your Sony Vaio. Should be OK... BUT... my Vaio has a RICOH interface on-board rather than the more standard TI chipset version, and yours may do too. You could try a Firewire PC card or PC Express card in your laptop which does have a TI chipset. Often the sort of behaviour you describe (glitches) can be due to graphics drivers. You don't say what kind of graphics RAM your laptop uses - shared system RAM can also lead to the type of sysmptom you're seeing. 4GB RAM might help. Reducing the colour bit depth on your screen to 16 bit might help - if your software will still run (Cubase complains if you reduce the bit depth to 16 bit). Turn off stuff like anti-virus and networking. Maybe adjust processor scheduling for background services (System Properties/Advanced/Advanced). Turn off all the Windows Visual effects. Stop unnecessary programs starting with Windows. Very much along the lines of what's always been recommended. Stop unnecessary services. Ensure your laptop's power plan is set to Maximum Performance. Ensure that in Device Manager any options to shut down devices to save power for things like USB interfaces or IEEE1394 are unticked

Whilst the mLAN driver works really well for me on my i7 desktop system, I did see occasional glitches on the lower spec dual core E6600 system I also installed W7 on - not terrible by any means and definitely usable, so maybe it is the nature of the way the XP 64 bit driver works in Windows 7 that makes it less efficient than it could be. The i7 being significantly more powerful than an E6600 probably absorbs any noticeable performance problems. Bottom line is that the XP64 driver almost certainly won't be as efficient in Vista or Windows as one specifically designed for those OS's. It possibly/probably won't work on all 64 bit systems - too many potential combinations of hardware but being completely selfish, I'm just glad it works on my main system - and very well.

Musicalrx: I could not get the XP 64 mLAN driver to give me usable results in Vista 64 on several machines. Playback from Cubase could be made to work reasonably well, but I tried several things and still could not get audio into Cubase from the 01v96v2. Windows 7 does seem much easier with this driver. I think you might find success with Windows 7 where you're failing at the moment with Vista 64 - but I would not recommend that you try it on your main system drive in case it doesn't work in Windows 7 for you either - try it on a spare drive or at least a separate partition so you don't mes up an otherwise perfectly good system. I must admit I was very pleasantly surprised to find that the XP driver works much better for me in Windows 7 than it did in Vista 64