Does operation flashpoint like on-board sound?

[drewb99 0]

I have an old sound blaster live, and I HATE it

Sometimes i'll be in the middle of a game, then suddenly...

BUHH BZZZZZ BUHH BZZZZZ BUHH BZZZZZ

It's so loud I either have to mute my game, which kind of kills it, or just alt+f4 it. Piss-poor card.

[ANTH 0]

Bought an Extigy and it works fine no crashing no crackling let that be a lesson to me for not reading up on souncards that work proberly with flashpoint any one want to buy an SBlive lol Thanks Gadger

[Gadger 0]

Hey np Anth

[Consigliere 0]

OK I did a search and found the right thread, so here's what I posted in the other one...

Hi

I'm having troubles with my sounds in OFP. If there's a loud, low sound like the Blackhawk engine, or the BRDM engine or even the jeep engine, any engine sound really come to think of it, the sound goes all crackly. As if my speakers were on the verge of splitting in half or something but I know it's nothing to do with my speakers because I get the same thing when I use my headphones.

The thing is, I recently installed my new system (last week) and I've been playing OFP on it since then, and the sound's been OK until just now. I don't think it's addon related because I had the same problem on my old PC.

My system specifications are :

AMD XP 2500+ processor

ASUS K7N8X-X nForce 2 Deluxe motherboard

512DDR RAM

Creative SB Live! 5.1 (Bulk) soundcard

Sparkle nVidia FX5600 256mb gfx card

Win XP Home

Incidentally, my old PC had the same gfx card, same sound card and same OS, so I'm thinking that it might be one of these casuing a problem somewhere.    

Perhaps a combination of OFP + gfx/soundcard + OFP = problem?

I use 1.91 and 1.94 versions of OFP and DirX 9.0.

Ahh OK I read the thread. Spose it's time I ditch the Live!

Ah but...The onboard soundcard on this motherboard is sposed to be pretty good, so what if I disabled the Live! and just used this hardware?

[shinRaiden 0]

That previous link from TweakXP is very important for all users, regardless of OS or app. I have a Asus A7S333 (Sis chipset), and it has a significant issue with idiotic resource sharing based on the PCI slot. Certain devices (usb, onboard sound) shared resources with certain PCI/AGP slots. If you put your sound card in the wrong slot, you screwed your self.

The other issue was that occasionally it would re-assign the dynamic resources, and they would conflict with static resources. In either case, the only rational easy working solution was to yard everything out execpt for cpu, ram and video card, disable everything in the BIOS, and reinstall cards and devices one at a time, cold booting in between. It now serves as a linux server. I don't touch its inerds, and it behaves itself.

Your MB, consigliere, has a decent onboard audio chip. Yeah, the soundstorm is the legendary one only available on the deluxe mb, but so what. I would pull the SB Live, as it has a rather dubious legacy here, and try just the onboard audio.

For folks who have been that route and still have issues, and would rather use an addon sound card, you may want to jumper off your onboard audio. Again, my A7S333 refused to die until I jumpered it - the BIOS wouldn't kill it all the way. Also, consult your manual and various forums for information on resource sharing - static and dynamic.

The biggest problem child I've encountered was the USB controller. If you've got a whole bunch of USB ports supported on your mb, chances are you have 2 USB controllers enumerated. Ask yourself if you really need it. If you have a usb printer, do you need that paralell port enabled? If you use a USB mouse, do you need the serial ports enabled? Do you use both NIC's on a double NIC board (A7N8X-DLX)? If not kill one.

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My system specs:

Athlon XP 2100+ (currently oc'd at 10x200)

Asus A7N8X-DLX 2.0

2x512mb DDR-400

Asus 9280 GeF4 ti4200 128mb AGP 8x

XP Pro Sp1

SoundStorm is enabled, uses digital out to the SPDIF-in on the Audigy Platinum 2 drive. Dolby Digital disabled, due to sync loss caused by lag.

Audigy 2 output is Zalman 5.1 surround sound headphones. No complaints, minimal occasional analog hiss.

[Consigliere 0]

Wow thanks for that information Shinraiden

I just didn't understand the bit about the thing, and that part and the NIC...Err...Lol do you think you could explain what you just posted in a fashion I could understand?

[shinRaiden 0]

Okay, look at your motherboard - do you have a printer plugged in the printer port? No? Disable it in the Bios then.

Do you have anything plugged in the serial ports? Chances are no, most mice today are PS/2 or USB. If you ain't using them, disable them.

Do you use MIDI? Odds are no. Disable that too.

How many of your USB ports are you using? If you're only using upto 2 ports, you could disable the second USB controller by switching to primary only.

NIC is Network Interface Card. I'm not familiar with your model MB, but I think it has at least one network (rj-45) port on it. If it has two, are you using the second one? Are you using one at all?

Basiclly if you're not using something, disable it. I have not had any serious issues with placing any PCI card in any PCI slot on my mb, and it uses the same north bridge (nforce2 core).

If you don't have an obvious needc for two sound cards (audio production, double dj'ing), pull the SB live and try the onboard. One significant advantage is that every onboard audio I've ever dealt with is affected a lot less by other stuff's EMI radio interference, which causes some hiss and scratchs on analog.

[muzzmuzz 1]

Generally performance is not suffered when using Onboard rather than a PCI card.

Since Onboard Sound systems received instructions from a CPU at the same speed as a PCI slot you shouldn't notice any problems. I've only noticed a difference in sound quality really, with PCI obviously giving better sound out then Onboard.

When it comes to sound problems with games the obvious is the check bios settings, update drivers, check OS setup and ingame settings. If Onboard still gives you trouble try a cheap PCI card, a Sound Blaster 5.1 PCI card is avalible from most places now for Å15.99+. Sometimes Onboard sound systems can cause problems due to heat problems, you must remember that everything is connected, though Bluescreen errors are normally caused by software problems.

Sadly you have one of those problems that not easty to diagnose.

I run a C-Media Onboard system with an ASUS board + Athlon XP 2800+ and a Radeon 9700 Pro and 1024mb DDR RAM and I must say the system performed exactly the same when I had a Å70 Sound Blaster Live Audy thing card in there.

IF you choose to buy a PCI card to see if that helps having both enabled though will certainly causes crashes. As a rule Onboard sound needs to be disabled in the bios settings but sometimes even when this is done a PCI card will still conflict. My advice would be removing the PCI card and getting the latest drivers for the C-Media system. Remove all the drivers for both and then reboot.

Next install the latest C-Media drivers and do a bios update through the ASUS update utility, get the latest flash, reboot and hopefully that will sort it out. If you want to use the PCI card, instead of installing the C-Media option just remove those drivers and disble in the bios after flashing. Latest drivers will certainly cut out any Bluescreen problems, if not try the version before the latest.

[Consigliere 0]

Thanks for the tips guys

I'll try and do the things you reccommend