running sound files during presentation of directrt file

**jarvis24** · 12-03-2010, 05:07 PM

First, addressing the backsound issue--I don't know that backsounds continue until the next backsound is encountered--when the sound is entered an an experiment item. I think it needs to accompany an item within a questionnaire (.que) file. Can you try that and if that works, let's then address the DirectRT issue. What release of DirectRT v2008 do you have installed on Windows 7? You might try first uninstalling and reinstalling the latest version from www.empirisoft.com/download.aspx (especially if you have a beta version.

**wphart** · 12-05-2010, 06:16 PM

Thanks for the suggestion, but unfortunately I'm still having problems. I installed the latest version of DirectRt (2010.2.103.1115) on my Windows 7 machine. I am also running Medialab v 2008.1.33.

When I try to run the medialb file "task.que" (see attached), I get a black screen. I attached the files I am using (minus the sound file), perhaps you can take a look. I didn't attach the sound file.

I have a strong suspicion something is up with the way directrt is running on my office pc so I attached the dxdiag file for you to look over. I've been using directrt and medialab for over seven years and have a lot of programming experience with them. I've been encountering problems that I've never encountered before.

**jarvis24** · 12-06-2010, 11:19 AM

Try it with this revision of task.csv and see if it helps. I had the same problem here and then I noticed a stray debriefing trial about 70 lines down in your input file. I tried deleting that and resaving the file. After that, it seemed to work fine.