<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><br></div><div>Hey Daniel,</div><div><br></div><div>First off, these are the preferred install locations for things:</div><div><a href="http://puredata.info/docs/faq/how-do-i-install-externals-and-help-files-with-pd-extended">http://puredata.info/docs/faq/how-do-i-install-externals-and-help-files-with-pd-extended</a></div><div><br></div><div>Second, about the crash, do you have any more info? Try running the 'pd.com' version from cmd.exe with -stderr to see if you can get some debug info.</div><div><br></div><div>.hc</div><br><div><div>On Sep 30, 2009, at 12:35 PM, mami music wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">HI all<br>I downloaded vst~.dll, and pasted it in the /extra folder in win XP of the PD 0.41.4-extended distribution. <br><br>Tried to load a free VST but crashed PD. <br><br>I´ve been using vst~ until previous versions. Had not tried it with PD 0.41.4-extended.<br> <br>Any comments or suggestions, any extra DLL needed, specific stuff taht im missing?<br><br>Thanks in advance<br><br>Daniel Gómez<br><br> _______________________________________________<br><a href="mailto:Pd-list@iem.at">Pd-list@iem.at</a> mailing list<br>UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> <a href="http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list">http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list</a><br></blockquote></div><br><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><div><br style="font-family: Tahoma; "></div><div>----------------------------------------------------------------------------<br style="font-family: Tahoma; "></div><div><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><div>Man has survived hitherto because he was too ignorant to know how to realize his wishes. Now that he can realize them, he must either change them, or perish. -William Carlos Williams</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span></span> </div><br></body></html>