Fidelizer 8.0

[jcn3]

3 hours ago, R1200CL said:

 

Can I use RDT with Fidelizer Pro ?

 

Should I do a clean W10 install before adding the Fidelizer Pro ?

 

 

 

You don't need a clean install for Fidelizer Pro.  The software is completely reversible so there's no inherent benefit to a new install.

 

Yes, you can use Remote Desktop -- I run my pc headless and use it all of the time.

 

I use Fidelizer Pro on top of AO and find the combo great.

[jcn3]

@Windows X -- upgraded from 8.1 to 8.3 and have a question about the media player application screen.

 

i run AO and in the past have selected fidelizer in shell replacement.  to start roonbridge and dirac, i had used a bat file that fidelizer ran.

 

how is the best way to do this in 8.3?

 

fyi -- i've tried (1) selecting roon bridge and dirac as media player applications and (2) selecting the bat file as the media player application.  neither approach starts roon bridge and dirac when selecting fidelizer for shell replacement in AO in 8.3.

 

both work fine without shell replacement.

 

thanks!

[jcn3]

On 12/11/2018 at 4:04 PM, jcn3 said:

@Windows X -- upgraded from 8.1 to 8.3 and have a question about the media player application screen.

 

i run AO and in the past have selected fidelizer in shell replacement.  to start roonbridge and dirac, i had used a bat file that fidelizer ran.

 

how is the best way to do this in 8.3?

 

fyi -- i've tried (1) selecting roon bridge and dirac as media player applications and (2) selecting the bat file as the media player application.  neither approach starts roon bridge and dirac when selecting fidelizer for shell replacement in AO in 8.3.

 

both work fine without shell replacement.

 

thanks!

 

@Windows X -- would certainly love a response on this issue.  thoughts?

[jcn3]

58 minutes ago, Windows X said:

 

Ah. Sorry for missing this. I'd recommend to use Fidelizer with its own startup procedure first since it will run will full admin privileges too. If you're using Fidelizer Pro in Windows Server 2012/R2 in core mode, this feature may not work and setting up Fidelizer Pro as default shell in AudiophileOptimizer's ServiceTool is recommended.

 

Running with shell replacement will be a bit tricky to run apps from %APPDATA% and %LOCALAPPDATA% because fidelizer will be called from system as a shell so it may not find current user.

 

Regards,

Keetakawee

 

i'm running windows 10.  the machine runs dirac live and roon bridge (along with AO and Fidelizer).

 

previously, ao was set up to use fidelizer as the shell replacement.  the capability within fidelizer to start a media application was used to run a .bat file that started roon bridge and dirac live.  worked like a charm.

 

as mentioned above, the new version of fidelizer doesn't seem to replicate the functionality of the earlier versions.  using fidelizer 8.3 as the shell replacement doesn't start anything.  i tried specifying the specific media applications and tried specifying the .bat file -- again, nothing was started.  note that fidelizer does start the applications when not using shell replacement.

 

i'm not clear on what you're suggesting -- should i be using shell replacement in ao as used previously?  what should i be doing differently?

 

thanks!

 

 

[jcn3]

sometimes we forget how valuable tools like fidelizer pro are.

 

i was switching around my rig (to simplify) and had an extra nuc7i5 so thought it would be a good idea to move the hard drive from my nuc6i5 to take advantage of the lower tdp from the nuc7i5.

 

since you can't move fidelizer to new hardware configurations without migrating the license (i've done this once already), fidelizer wasn't working on the new nuc.  i went ahead finishing the set up and played some music . . . 

 

my initial reaction was WHAT HAPPENED, THAT SOUNDS SO FLAT!  instruments had no body, voices had no texture, and the soundstage wasn't there.  after running through my mental checklist to see if i accidentally changed something, it took me about 15 min to remember that fidelizer wasn't in the picture.

 

needless to say, i quickly put the drive back into the nuc6i5!  immediately, i was rewarded with the beautiful sounds i'm used to hearing.

 

@Windows X -- thanks for a great piece of software.  it makes a stunning difference in my system.

[jcn3]

On 7/12/2020 at 8:13 AM, Mike6f said:

Its not clear to me what this product does. I run win10, foobar 2000 and VLC, with all output from the PC to my AV system digital, toslink or HDMI, or someday 1394, will this product make any changes to the digital output?

 

no, it doesn't change the digital output.  what fidelizer does is optimize the settings in your computer for audio applications.  while some may say "bits is bits" so what's the point, in my experience, fidelizer makes a audible improvement in computer audio.