This just started happening today.
Very... very strange.
Generic Host Process Win32 dies, but in sort of a strange way. It seems to go after my directsound. Now, nothing else is afflicted, everything runs normally, and if I go into winamp or foobar and change the output to my hardware soundcard, i can play music on the said players.
However, downside is I can't play a video with the sound for some reason, even when I change the output in my players. When I reboot, everything works as it should be for a number of minutes, 5 to maybe 10, and then it dies again. The problem, when I go into sound devices, is that it's all grayed out (as opposed to before the fatal exception occurs, when i have a choice on which sound output i want to choose). This tells me that even if I got a PCI soundcard (this one's a ****ty motherboard one - but it still worked fine for a full year since I bought the rig), I'd still be ****ed due to the fact that it's just that, all grayed out, and that I wouldn't be able to choose anything that works, even though it's obviously there.
I've tried everything I knew. Spybot/Three different virus scans, they all come up empty. I tried installing the latest DirectX since that comes with DirectSound. Re-installing the sound drivers. No dice on anything.
Basically in order to watch videos now, I reboot, open my videos while it still works, and then minimize them. Even after it fatals, they still work like everything is okay. But if I try to launch them again, I'll get the "can't find a codec for stream" error, and the videos will play just fine except without any sound.
Also I guess it's worth mentioning that as a result, all YouTube and Google videos don't have sound as well. First I noticed that the sound wasn't there today was when I was checking out Charlie Murphy's True Hollywood Stories on YouTube. It was all downhill from there.
To me, it looks like I'm proper ****ed, and that the only answer from here on is a format. But if anyone wants to share any sage knowledge, you're very welcome to try.
Two images are of my sound device thinger. Everything's in Swedish here, but you get the point, we all have the same **** under our Control Panel. The way yours looks, is the way mine looks before the **** fatals (Just still in Swedish).
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