On a virgin Intel P4 machine with winXP, using Csound5.07-win32-f.exe freshly installed, 5.07 is not behaving as expected - so do forgive me, folks, as I ask for advice or suggestions. Csound seems not to find portaudio as a driver option. Probably a simple but frustrating missing PATH issue for me. When running /examples/am.csd in Csound5GUI, a warning and an error are reported; WARNING: csould not open library 'C:\Program Files\Csound\plugins\rtpa.dll' and ERROR: unknown rtaudio module: 'PortAudio' Failed to initialise real time audio input when PortAudio is selected in Csound5GUI Configure. No error or warning when MME is selcted. Running Csound from the CMD prompt, reports .. Cannot find C:\Program Files\Csound\plugins\rtpa.dll. rtpa.dll is there in the \plugins directory. Following advice from Michael or Davis Pyon, the present situation is that I have renamed portaudio_x86.dll to portaudio.dll, which is in the Csound\bin directory. Control Panel -> System Properties -> Environment Variables presently contains; User Variables for user; PATH C:\Program Files\Csound\bin System Variables; OPCODEDIR C:\Program Files\Csound\plugins PATH [.....]; C:\Program Files\Csound; C:\Program Files\Csound\bin;