Discontinued PCX and LCM sound cards are divided in two groups:

• Group 1
  PCX9, PCX9 PCI, PCX11, PCX11+, PCX11+ PCI, PCX20v2,
  PCX80,
  PCXpocket, PCXpocket v2, PCXpocket AD,
  LCM220,LCM440, LCM200
  PCX820np, PCX820np v2, PCX821np, PCX440np

• Group 2
  LCM220v2,LCM440v2, LAM420,
  PCX22, PCX22v2, PCX924, PCX924v2, PCX924-Mic
  PCX440np v2, PCX442, PCX821np v2, PCX822np, PCX822v2
  PCXpocket v3, PCXpocket 440, PCXPocket 240

Cards in group 1 are supported until Windows 2000, Windows XP, and Windows 2003 Server.

Cards in group 2 are supported until Windows 7 32-bit and 64-bit versions.

WARNING

Audio dropouts can be experienced on some PCs under Windows 7 with discontinued cards supported by NP Runtime. This may be due to other devices in the PC (see procedure below in the release notes part), but also to the architecture of these discontinued cards.

We strongly recommend to test first the system before deploying it.

For both of cards, the NP Runtime driver package allows installing:

• The Digigram NP compatible driver
• A Wave MME driver

There is no DirectSound  and no ASIO driver for these cards.

All the drivers for these sound cards are no longer supported.

NP Runtime releases notes

VERSION 6.52F004 RELEASE NOTES

WARNING

Audio dropouts can be experienced on some PCs under Windows 7 with discontinued cards supported by NP Runtime. This may be due to other devices in the PC (see procedure below), but also to the architecture of these discontinued cards.

We strongly recommend to test first the system before deploying it.

This driver package installs the Digigram NP driver as well as the Wave driver for the cards.

In case audio dropout are experienced, here is a procedure that may help get rid of them:

Run DPC Latency checker (This is a free application developed by Thesycon) and follow the steps below:

• After at least one minute, in case the bargraph is green, there is no potential issue. In case the bargraph is yellow and/or red, the computer most likely produces dropouts and artifacts.
• It is possible to identify the source of the problem, by running the software application LatencyMon from Respledence.
• LatencyMon displays the list of drivers (drivers tab). You can sort the list by highest execution time (double click on ‘Highest execution (ms)’ column header).
• All drivers which highest execution time is equal or able 1ms are potential sources of the dropouts.
• You can then deactivate the devices associated to these drivers from the Device Manager. Be careful, some components should not be deactivated as they are essential to the system.

> Download npRuntime-v06.52f004 for group2 for Windows Vista-Seven32bits

> Download npRuntime-v06.52f004 for group2 for Windows Seven 64 bits

VERSION 6.50A RELEASE NOTES

Supports PCX and LCM cards in group2, under Windows 2000 and Windows XP.
This driver can coexist with NP Runtime 6.20p so that an application can manage cards from group 1 and cards from group 2 at the same time.

Installation by Setup.

• If a previous NP Runtime package is installed, uninstall it from Settings, Control Panel, Add/Remove program.

• Run the downloaded file.

• It extracts the installation files, and automatically runs the NP Runtime setup. Follow the directives.

WHAT’S NEW

• The following effects are now available on LCM200 and LCM220v2: Time-Stretching, Maximizer and Equalizer, Pitch-shifting.

FIXED ISSUES & IMPROVEMENTS

• Previous driver versions could fail to load on some machines with the following cards: PCX821v1, PCX820v2, PCX822,PCX440v2, PCX442, , LCM420v2, LCM440v2, VX822,VX820 . Fixed.
• In previous versions, a crash (instead of an error) could occur in VPCXNT_E.DLL when calling function PCXStartPipe before a call to PCXSetOfflineLoop. Fixed: error ED_INVALID_PIPE is now returned.
• With Virtual PCX, the time necessary to allocate a Wave or DirectSound device has been optimized.

• Download npruntime650a for Group2 for Windows 2000, XP,  2003 Server  -32 bits

VERSION 6.20p001

Supports PCX and LCM cards in group1, under Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows 2003 Server.

• Download npruntimeV6.20p001 for group1 for Windows 2000, XP, 2003Server