Bambu Studio ... Getting Familiar before purchase of Printer!

Hi to everyone,
This may be a silly question so please be gentle with me if so!

I am in the UK and very new to this whole 3D printing world. So I intend to purchase a A1 combo in the very near future once I get my act together and sort out somewhere to put it.

I thought I would try and get familiar with Bambu Studio in the meantime, so I downloaded and installed it. It opens complete with a warning message about some DLLs having been injected into the Bambu Studio process, whatever that means! However I cannot get it to load any models or in fact do anything and eventually I have to use Task Manager to close in down.

Now this may well be a function of not actually having a printer for it to connect to? Can anyone please confirm this?

If so is there a way to get familiar with the software before actually having the printer connected?

Or alternatively could this issue be something to do with the DLLs that it has warned me about. I have attached a screenshot of the message.

Thanks for any assistance.

Regards

Michael

Message after install of Bambu Studio

Try to disable nahimic service in windows:

Yes you can play with Bambu Studio with no printer connected. I have prepared several model to be printed when I will receive my printer next week. Try uninstall and reinstall and note faults at installation, it might just be some windows frameworks missing which you can install separately. Which OP do you use? I’m on Winn11.

Bambu Studio is compatible with MacOS and Windows only.

arekxyz I followed the instructions from Eric in the link that you attached: " went into ms config _ System Configuration and unchecked Nahimic then apply" restarted the PC and then opened Bambu Studio and the message has gone. So thank you for your help.

Regards

Michael

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philch I am running Win 10. Now I have gotten rid of the warning message I will re-install Bambu Studio and see what happens. Thanks for your help

Michael

Not only. Linux, too.

Uninstalled Bambu Studio and cleaned up the registry on my PC using CCleaner.

Reinstalled a fresh copy of Bambu Studio, accepted all of the defaults logged in and was able to open a number of models from Maker world with no issues. Formerly it would just hang.

So making progress, now just need to understand what I am doing!

Thanks to all for your assistance.

No doubt in the words of Arnie “Ill be Back” for more advice and help!

Regards

Michael

That worked for me too after windows reinstall. After a couple of weeks when all drivers (Dell and Windows) had been installed and updated - it came back.

Seems that it could be related to realtek audio driver from what i read

Thanks for sharing.
I do not think this is a resolution, but a workaround.
Disabling whatever from my Windows because of dumb program (e.g. slicer) does not satisfy me to be honest :frowning:

And I thought it was from the video driver but seems it is more of a audio driver related? wtf :smiley:

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That’s the other way. nahimicosd breaks various programs, games (google about that) and one of these programs is prusa slicer and bambu slicer.

Now slicers are being able to detect that and warn user but they cannot fix microsoft provided nahimicosd.dll.

That’s the message I get. My motherboard has Realtek audio (Asus mobo) and I have to click through that message every time. It may or may not be an issue in Bambu Studio on my system. Studio seems to work ok anyway but I do get occasional CTDs when configuring/slicing a new project. It will also for some reason forget about the first layers after slicing and throw a warning but if I save and reopen, then slice again it works.

So a little annoying but can still get work done. Just save your progress frequently as you set up a project and hopefully it won’t be too much bother. I don’t know if the CTDs I see have anything to do with the Realtek driver or not but since it throws a warning, maybe?

I did some research and seems it is connected to that Namico stuff. So in my case it is Alienware /Dell/ laptop and if you use their command center it seems it has to be there.
There is a file with exclusions that you can put the executables in and should be working fine, but does not work for me :frowning:
C:\ProgramData\A-Volute\DellInc.AlienwareSoundCenter\Modules\ScheduledModules\Configurator\BlackApps.dat

Put the names of the executables inside, without path.
Might work for you this is what I found out so far

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Will look into that. Thanks for the tip!

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Please share if it worked for you

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As a new BL user, I too encountered the error massage. As it is the first time i heard A-Volute, I googled it. Most of the results were directing to Microsoft support pages. As tradition of MS support every support staff answer conflicts with each other. "Comes with Windows, “Remove it”, "Safety use, “Safety to remove if you are not using”. Argggghh. There is no information why it is loaded and why it is needed.

In the good old days of DOS and Win 3.x i use to have full control of everything going on in my PC. Now i have no control.

I disabled it anyway and i did not see any of the softwares complains about it yet. As my PC is multi-purposed aka lots of different software types requires too many of services to be loaded, i am still expecting one of them start complaining about it in the future.

I wanted check here if you guys learned something about it and looks like not much. Windows itself started to become a spyware/malware itself.

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This is why some of us switched to Linux, it’s not for the faint hearted but after using it for 2 years I don’t even want to use my Mac anymore either. :smiley:

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