Guest Posted December 15, 2001 I just installed WinXP pro. When I have hw acc enabled I get hissing and crackling in my rear-speakers when driving cars or flying choppers. Soundcard: SB Live Platinum , using 4-point sur. Downloaded a xpdriverupdate from creative (dated oct'2001), no difference. I had no artifacts whatsoever in the sound when I ran WinME and OFP is the only game I noticed this in. Oh and I got no IRQ confl/sharing Any suggestions? OFP bug? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Krull SGC 0 Posted December 15, 2001 BIS know about this problem, and they say it will be fixed in the upcoming patch. In the meantime try switching view, and they switching back it seems to sort it out, even if it is just a work around. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Mister Frag 0 Posted December 15, 2001 </span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Quote: from Shadow_ATWAR on 3:24 am on Dec. 16, 2001 I just installed WinXP pro. When I have hw acc enabled I get hissing and crackling in my rear-speakers when driving cars or flying choppers. Soundcard: SB Live Platinum , using 4-point sur. Downloaded a xpdriverupdate from creative (dated oct'2001), no difference. I had no artifacts whatsoever in the sound when I ran WinME and OFP is the only game I noticed this in. Oh and I got no IRQ confl/sharing Any suggestions? OFP bug? <span id='postcolor'> There are more recent official drivers available, date 11/29/01: <a href="http://www.soundblaster.com/support/winxp/sblivedrvupdate.asp You" target="_blank">http://www.soundblaster.com/support/winxp/sblivedrvupdate.asp You</a> can also find new drivers here: http://www.3dsoundsurge.com/drivers/Live/index.html Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted December 16, 2001 Thanks alot for the replys guys Good to hear BIS knows about these problems. btw I tried switching between 1st and 3rd view. The distortion seems to go away in 3rd but is back again when I switch to 1stview. I noticed another thing too: the distortion only occurs when you have to turn the engine on. In other words; if I start a mission allready airborne then the distortion ain't there, but if I land and turn off the engines and on again then the distortion is back. hmmm oh and that sblivedrvupdate i downloaded was 29th november. The strange thing is now there are to games with distortion in the sound: OFP and DeusEx. :/ Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted December 16, 2001 Thanks alot for the url to the unofficial driver, Mister Fragg. It fixed the distortion in DeusEx and now the switching between 3rd and 1st person view works as a 'work-around' too again, thanks alot guys Seems I don't have to re-install WinME after all.. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
amos m 0 Posted December 16, 2001 ok my probs similar, only I get like a rounded fat white noise when I am on foot in my rear speakers, not too loud, but louder than my footsteps, and loud enough to s**te me. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted December 17, 2001 White noise ? have'nt heard of that one. I know pink noise (standard test-tone for surround calibrating) and brown noise (tuning subwoofers) Anyway try that unofficial driver at 3dsoundsurge (if you got a SBlive). Worked wonders for me Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
amos m 0 Posted December 17, 2001 żUnofficial driver? All I found was links to official drivers available from different sources. I don't have me. I got 98se. I know! I feel dirty. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Paddeh 0 Posted December 18, 2001 I get crackling audio in XP on my VIA onboard sound, works perfectly fine in windowsME, its the only reason I went back to ME to be honest Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Satchel 0 Posted December 19, 2001 Same here, it´s WindowsXP screwing the sound up. None of SBLive drivers i tried so far (and i tested many) cured the problem, it´s only in D3D, especially OFP when accelerating vehicles and the engine sound gets pitched. Only cure i know of currently is to install a second boot partition with Win9x/ME. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
GrimReaper 0 Posted December 20, 2001 The reason for this crackling might also be that the SB Live! series of sound cards is known to not be fully PCI 2.1 compliant. This causes the cards to be highly susceptible (just hope this is the right word ) to interferences when sharing an IRQ with other cards. Windows XP, like Windows 2000 and unlike Windows 9x/Me makes excessive use of IRQ sharing. I only got rid of this problem by disabling ACPI on my Win2k machine and manually assigning a dedicated IRQ for my SBLive! in my PC's BIOS setup. HTH, Reaper out Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
marshmanguy 0 Posted July 15, 2002 HOW DO I DO THAT??!!!! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
shadow 6 Posted July 15, 2002 </span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (marshmanguy @ July 15 2002,15:41)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">HOW DO I DO THAT??!!!!<span id='postcolor'> Like the man says; in the BIOS Where in the BIOS depends on your Motherboard. Brand? Model? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
