I have not Personally installed any new programs or updates on this computer except for what I mentioned above. I decide to power that down and to my surprise Audacity came up without the error message and it showed the Audio Device info. I have sound produced through iTunes, Internet music streaming so everything checks on that.īecause I play music I use Cakewalk Sonar and use M-Audio Fast Track Ultra USB audio interface. I saw one post about RealTek HD Manager not have the Default Format set. I updated my Realtek High Definition Audio drivers to Version 6. I was on Audacity 2.1.0 and I upgraded to 2.1.1 I have been on Windows 10 now since the free upgrade in August with no issues related to Audacity. I read several posts in this forum and on thinking “what changed” did a patch come out? In the process of reading and trying to figure out what happened. You will not be able to play or record audio. Then midweek (Wed/Thursday) 11/11 or 11/12 I launched Audacity and received the message “Error Initializing Audio. A week ago I was using Audacity without any problems.