So in other words, this release was about 90% maintenance, 10% new features. Some of the changes sound huge. 64-bit. CoreGraphics. It sounds like Human Playback was shifted away from its plug-in...

Did that version have a finmid32.dll? I've forgotten how all that used to work, but if it's not giving a different error message, then it's probably failing on something other than audio driver...

You could probably rule the sound card issue out completely by downloading the demo for 2014 and making sure it runs properly. I assume you've already tried uninstalling and reinstalling Finale...

It comes down completely to what type of music you are entering and whether or not you are using a MIDI keyboard. If you are using a MIDI keyboard and your music includes lots of chords (not chord...

Perhaps it's this? https://visualstudiomagazine.com/Blogs/Tool-Tracker/2013/01/Get-Back-Previous-Versions-of-Visual-Studio.aspx ...