Re-Installing Reason 2.5, after Reason 10 Froze my computer
Posted: 17 Dec 2017
Hello All,
This is a long string of issues, so bear with me as I detail them. Any help in solving the issues would be GREATLY appreciated.
Number 1:
So, I was running Reason 5 (upgrade from Reason 2.5) a few weeks ago until I decided to buy the Reason 10 upgrade. When I downloaded the RSN 10 upgrade, it seemed to drastically slow down my PC computer, which is running on Windows 7 64-BIT. At first it wouldn't recognize my audio driver which was a Tascam US-144. I had to select different drivers to get any playback, at the cost of there being some latency issues.
Once I reinstalled my driver, it seemed to allow me to select that driver for playback. Running RSN 10 worked for a couple of days until every time I would press "play" on what I was working on, it would freeze and like a broken record it would be frozen but playing about 1 second of the composition over and over. I couldn't close the program or do anything. It was just frozen at that point where it was playing that snippet on repeat.
Number 2:
After hours of RSN 10 issues, I decided to uninstall Reason 10 and re-install Reason 5.
When I went to open Reason 5, or any of my previous .rsn files, it gave me the message "Unsupported Format-The Operation could not be completed because the format is not supported."
I open the control panel and click on Programs and it says that it was installed but for some reason I can't open anything because of this message above.
Number 3:
So after trying and trying to get RSN 5 to work again, I decided to start over and uninstall RSN 5 and also the main download where the system is built off of which is Reason 2.5. I originally purchased 2.5 and upgraded from there.
After uninstalling RSN 5, I uninstalled RSN 2.5. My plan was to start over.
After uninstalling RSN 2.5, I went back to reinstall and it kept giving me the following message: "This application requires Administrator priveliges to run. Please log on as Administrator, then try again."
I AM the only person that uses this computer and I have installed this before. I haven't made any changes to my system since 1st downloading RSN 2.5.
I keep running into roadblock after roadblock.
Any suggestions are greatly appreciated.
Thank you,
This is a long string of issues, so bear with me as I detail them. Any help in solving the issues would be GREATLY appreciated.
Number 1:
So, I was running Reason 5 (upgrade from Reason 2.5) a few weeks ago until I decided to buy the Reason 10 upgrade. When I downloaded the RSN 10 upgrade, it seemed to drastically slow down my PC computer, which is running on Windows 7 64-BIT. At first it wouldn't recognize my audio driver which was a Tascam US-144. I had to select different drivers to get any playback, at the cost of there being some latency issues.
Once I reinstalled my driver, it seemed to allow me to select that driver for playback. Running RSN 10 worked for a couple of days until every time I would press "play" on what I was working on, it would freeze and like a broken record it would be frozen but playing about 1 second of the composition over and over. I couldn't close the program or do anything. It was just frozen at that point where it was playing that snippet on repeat.
Number 2:
After hours of RSN 10 issues, I decided to uninstall Reason 10 and re-install Reason 5.
When I went to open Reason 5, or any of my previous .rsn files, it gave me the message "Unsupported Format-The Operation could not be completed because the format is not supported."
I open the control panel and click on Programs and it says that it was installed but for some reason I can't open anything because of this message above.
Number 3:
So after trying and trying to get RSN 5 to work again, I decided to start over and uninstall RSN 5 and also the main download where the system is built off of which is Reason 2.5. I originally purchased 2.5 and upgraded from there.
After uninstalling RSN 5, I uninstalled RSN 2.5. My plan was to start over.
After uninstalling RSN 2.5, I went back to reinstall and it kept giving me the following message: "This application requires Administrator priveliges to run. Please log on as Administrator, then try again."
I AM the only person that uses this computer and I have installed this before. I haven't made any changes to my system since 1st downloading RSN 2.5.
I keep running into roadblock after roadblock.
Any suggestions are greatly appreciated.
Thank you,