jackdority

29th June 2010 06:53 UTC

avs not "seen" by windows 7
was recently forced to get windows 7 (old computer with xp broke) and since installing winamp on this brand new, fresh pc it plays fine but when trying to set any avs pack the editor only shows the default community picks and winamp 5 picks. Moving other packs into winamp>plugins>avs does nothing, editor not seeing them to allow me to set them, moving other avs files into community picks folder inside avs folder does nothing also, shows as empty except the community picks avs's that were there already. Is windows 7 just another defective version of vista or am i missing something?

DrO

29th June 2010 08:57 UTC

i think its more the other way round that AVS is broken and there's little interest to resolve the issues with it now with Vista/Win7 (and XP as well).

-daz

jackdority

30th June 2010 01:19 UTC

odd that it worked fine with xp up until the computer stopped turning on

DrO

30th June 2010 09:49 UTC

XP and Win7 are completely different in how they implement some parts of the OS which AVS uses and also as AVS does a lot of dynamic internal changes it's more susceptible to crashing under Vista/Win7 due to the improvements in how those OSes work with memory and process space protection. Its been tried to fix AVS but changing things seems to break things more (hence why it is no longer the default visualisation and why it is never recommended being left more for legacy reasons i believe).

-daz

Yathosho

1st July 2010 10:16 UTC

could it be you have two avs dirs, on in %programfiles% and another in %appdata%? also check your winamp.ini for the value of VISDir (default visualization directory.)