Rowdy 1 Posted January 25, 2002 I have a soundblaster Live 5.1 gamer . I get a crackling in the game when im in Vehicles and copters . Sometime going to 1st person then to 3rd person will get rid of the cracks and pops . I have been contacting soundblaster ( hold time over an hour ) ,Microsoft, MSI , and OFP .I took my Motherboard back , I traded in my memory for 2 identical sticks of Kingston 256 ddr ram . I reformated in Fat 32 and NTSB .The only thing not replaced in my computer is the soundcard . ( which runs fine in all other games ).This time i downloaded the SB XP drivers and not the SB Card driver update at microsoft . This is allowing the cracks and pops to go away after i switch the views . ( THis is in some Veh and maps ) I afraid to download the drivers at microsoft now .hehe ANY ideas ? Windows XP 1.3 gig Athlon Thunderbird KT7266 PRO 2 Motherboard 2x256 Kingston DDR ram 20 gig Western Digital Hard drive Geforce 3 Ti 500 ( Xtasy ) Sb LIVE 5.1 Gamer Cable modem Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
iMoRtAliS 0 Posted January 25, 2002 I add the same problem since the release of the game... (And its the reason why i register the forum back in september) No fix has been release.. It was on win2k and now it do the same thing on xp... still i dont know why but this tickle occur less often these day it usually append when sound are mixed like if you ride a jeep near bird singning etc... It was really annoying I dont know what Ive done to fix it but not it only occur on rare occasion.... I have the same SB x-gamer 5.1 card... for the rest of the spec bis look ur e-mail ive send Dir-x files long ago... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Placebo 29 Posted January 25, 2002 There have been a fair few threads about this in the Troubleshooting forum over the last week or so, you'll find answers in there if you search for them Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ALDEGA 0 Posted January 25, 2002 Rowdy, I've got 100% the same problem. The only way to get rid of the crackling is to reduce HW acceleration level of the SB Live (somewhere in the sound configuration panel of WinXP) or to turn off HW and/or EAX ingame (restart the game to make the changes take effect) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Placebo 29 Posted January 25, 2002 </span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (ALDEGA @ Jan. 25 2002,19:20)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">The only way to get rid of the crackling is to reduce HW acceleration level of the SB Live (somewhere in the sound configuration panel of WinXP) or to turn off HW and/or EAX ingame (restart the game to make the changes take effect)<span id='postcolor'> Sorry but that's not quite correct, it is one possible solution, but not the only one, doing that didn't remove the crackling for me, doubling the PCI Latency Setting to 64 (as I've mentioned in a few "crackling" threads on here) is what resolved the issue Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ALDEGA 0 Posted January 25, 2002 Changing the latency didn't fix the prob on my system and since he appears to be having 100% the same problem, the solution might be the same. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
dragonGOD 0 Posted January 30, 2002 I've got this problem exactly too, but my bios doesn't have a PCI Latency option in it... I'm runnin Windows XP Proffesional Athalon 1.333 ghz 512 RAM GeForce 3 Soundblaster Live! 5.1 Biostar MIAKT66 motherboard w\ Award Bios Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
