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Billoon i dont know if this is your problem re that dll. its a dll as part of windows obviously. ive sometimes seen such problems on some daws if one is useing an older version of windows. how old is your version of win ?? how olds your pc ?? ive also seen various probs if a user has inadvertently deleted a needed win dll which youll normally find resides in windows>>system dir if i remember. thus i would do two things. 1. make sure it resides on your system..and 2. make sure you have a later version if its been updated by MS.

Much of this discussion is over my head, and I may well have misunderstood something in this thread, but you might want to at least try setting your swap file to dynamic instead of fixed and see what happens. Fixed is great for saving those expansion/contraction cycles, but when you run out of fixed swap file, you crash. And it's unpredictable, because you fill RAM differently all the time. I know that you're supposedly not running out of real/virtual RAM, but, hey, what can it hurt to make sure? In any case, good luck. This stuff can drive you insane.

Hey manning, im on xp sp2, comps a year old, 1.8gig dualcore, 1gig ram. Im running a new windows install ATM and only had 1 crash so far. Greylion, i'lll give it a go, cheers. Thing is, ive been running the exact same system config for a couple of years and only started getting crashes since the last couple of versions, thats why i suspected reaper. Who knows though, still could be faulty hardware but nothing else crashes so???

Billoon its an important run time dll. you must check that its on your system. it might be that somehow its become deleted. thats all i can think of. heres a test to run... tell me if windows media player works or if you get the same error message. google that dll name and youll see lots of threads bout causes etc. often a corruption or its missing cos some program inadvertently deleted it. by any chance did you recently do any deleting or disk cleanups ??