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Monstercat Visualizer not working

Post by Swervz »

I'm trying to get The Monstercat Visualizer working but it just seems to be Erroring out I tried Rainmeter 3.3.2 Final Release (r2743): and 4.0 Release Candidate 1 (r2731). Full error log: http://pastebin.com/CzGA3T77

Setting Port= to Input instead of output in the skin made it work but Changing it back to Output makes it spam the log with errors.

I tried removing Measure=Plugin Plugin=AudioLevel as recommended in this topic https://forum.rainmeter.net/viewtopic.php?t=23450 but then I get these errors and it still wont work:

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ERRO (03:34:17.507) monstercat-visualizer\visualizer.ini: ColorExtract.dll: Image does not exist
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Version info

4.0.0 beta r2731 64-bit (Dec 19 2016)
Windows 10 Pro 64-bit (build 10586)
Path: C:\Program Files\Rainmeter\
IniFile: C:\Users\Swervz\AppData\Roaming\Rainmeter\Rainmeter.ini
SkinPath: C:\Users\Swervz\Documents\Rainmeter\Skins\

Please help.

ps. Happy new year!
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Re: Monstercat Visualizer not working

Post by jsmorley »

You shouldn't need any C++ runtime libraries with recent versions of Rainmeter, as the app will use any Visual Studio 2015 C++ runtimes installed, but will use embedded functionality if they are not found. It might be possible that a "corrupted" installation of the C++ runtimes could cause an issue, you might want to get and install the packager found here:

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=48145
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Re: Monstercat Visualizer not working

Post by Swervz »

Thanks for the reply.

I have all the VC Redists installed when I installed visual studio and they seem to be good.

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After some additional troubleshooting, trying to disable devices and google things I managed to get it working by uninstalling the Realtek HD audio drivers for my mobo (asus maximus viii hero) but now audio sounds pretty bad with the default windows audio drivers. Updating the realtek drivers to the latest version did not seem to fix it either. Is there a way to get Rainmeter working with the Realtek drivers?

Thanks.
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Re: Monstercat Visualizer not working

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Swervz wrote:Is there a way to get Rainmeter working with the Realtek drivers?
Rainmeter might use standard machine sound "input", however, I also use the Realtek driver with great results for output.

So, I am fairly certain that Rainmeter does not access that driver bundle.
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Re: Monstercat Visualizer not working

Post by Swervz »

Mor3bane wrote:Rainmeter might use standard machine sound "input", however, I also use the Realtek driver with great results for output.

So, I am fairly certain that Rainmeter does not access that driver bundle.
I reinstalled the Drivers from scratch and seem to be getting the exact same error WARN (18:19:13.819) : Failed to initialize audio client. DBUG (18:19:13.819) : Releasing dummy stream audio device. Spamming repeatedly. Is there any other log I can loo at to try and work out whats going wrong?
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Re: Monstercat Visualizer not working

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Swervz wrote:I reinstalled the Drivers from scratch and seem to be getting the exact same error WARN (18:19:13.819) : Failed to initialize audio client. DBUG (18:19:13.819) : Releasing dummy stream audio device. Spamming repeatedly. Is there any other log I can loo at to try and work out whats going wrong?
That board uses Sonic sound programs which may be operating in 'WASAPI exclusive' mode; that will generate those errors.

Follow the suggestion in item #8 in this troubleshooter post by ActiveColors.

Hope this helps!
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Re: Monstercat Visualizer not working

Post by Swervz »

eclectic-tech wrote:That board uses Sonic sound programs which may be operating in 'WASAPI exclusive' mode; that will generate those errors.

Follow the suggestion in item #8 in this troubleshooter post by ActiveColors.

Hope this helps!
Thanks for the reply!

Sadly I tried this and still getting the same error, Restarted rainmeter and even my whole PC. Its the only audio device that's enabled so at this point I'm not sure what could be causing it.

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Re: Monstercat Visualizer not working

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Still not sure what's wrong, If anyone knows I would really appreciate the help, Thanks.
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Re: Monstercat Visualizer not working

Post by Swervz »

So I ran the audio device skin and it says there is no default output device even though there is one set in windows and then I set the ID in the skin after Port=Output and it said device not found in the log. Heres an image (I painted over the ID not sure if its something I should keep private but I assume it is seems as there are no examples with other IDS online)

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Please help, this plugin is really cool but I just cant get it to work :(