Intermittent Light Shut-off with MYDMX

I gotta say this in a way that won't get me in trouble or insulting to you, plus keeps MyDMX in a good light.

First, I like MyDMX. I still use it. Not as often as before, but when I do concerts, the way I set it up it works fantastic.

Let's get into this. What all are you running besides MyDMX? When it goes out, is it coming back when you run a another scene or does it come back on its own?

Why are you running Internet Explorer? Is there a reason to be surfing the web while you're doing your lighting? Now, I haven't run into that problem because I haven't done that, but I have had MyDMX freak out on me while trying to run Windows Media Player. Very similar, as it was fine, then I switched to Windows Media Player and the lights went out. I had to select the scene again, but one time I had to restart myDMX.

MyDMX really likes to be the only thing running. It needs to be and remain the foreground application at all times. I'm not sure why this is true, but that's what really keeps it happy.

So, share more details. I will agree with you that you're probably not bogging down the computer. I just think that how you're behaving(which normally wouldn't be unusual), MyDMX just doesn't like it.

Ideally, come show time, you should be doing everything you can to minimize issues whenever possible, and often that means "one machine, one task" kind of mentality.