rec.autos.simulators

by **Don Burnett** » Mon, 18 Feb 2002 00:53:50

> > Well, I went a got a Hercules XP home theater board and it still does
it,
> > my problem must be elseware :(

> > xp 1800
> > via chipset
> > gforce 2 gts
> > hercules xp home theater

> > I going to go read the papy forums and see if I can find anything..

> > Thanks for everyones help.

> > John

> Do you have ACPI enabled in your bios? I've read that ACPI can cause
> crackling on some systems. Also, if you have an option to adjust PCI
latency
> in the mb bio then try playing around with that as I have also read this
can
> be a cause of crackling sound too. SB Live! is known to rob the PCI bus
and
> that is the most likely reason why people get crackling on that card.

Be careful playing around with acpi settings, typically if you change it
your going to want to reinstall windows or possibly have problems.

Don Burnette

by **Radio Flye** » Mon, 18 Feb 2002 00:55:11

I couldn't find that setting in my BIOS. (assuming you meant PCI-->DRAM
prefetch).

I've got a via chipset, award bios. I wonder if there's an equivalent
setting?

by **bertr** » Mon, 18 Feb 2002 01:04:28

I have the same question -- Can't find that setting in my BIOS. Mobo is an
Epox 8Kha+. Can anyone give details on where to adjust this setting?

> > I enabled the "PCE to DRAM Prefetch" in my BIOS and the popping went away
> > completely.

> I couldn't find that setting in my BIOS. (assuming you meant PCI-->DRAM
> prefetch).

> I've got a via chipset, award bios. I wonder if there's an equivalent
> setting?

by **J. Janaso** » Mon, 18 Feb 2002 02:03:35

I have an Asus P3V4X with award bios, it's under the advanced chip
configuration options, where SDRAM latency settings etc. are located. It's
PCI to DRAM Prefetch.

Good Luck
J. Janasov

> Can't find anything like this in my bios (Abit KR7A mobo). Assume PCE
> is meant to be PCI. The core.ini advice posted earlier helped but now
> the sounds pop in and out more often, which is another problem with
> N2K2's sounds.

> On Sat, 16 Feb 2002 06:20:33 -0800, "Jim Tester"

> >I enabled the "PCE to DRAM Prefetch" in my BIOS and the popping went away
> >completely.

> >~J

> >> > Can somebody confirm this with the full game? You could be getting
a
> >> > medal for this John, good work.

> >> I tried those settings in the full game, and the popping/crackling
problem
> >> improved, but didn't go away entirely. It is quite a bit better though.

by **John Cauthe** » Tue, 19 Feb 2002 01:42:33

Dave,

I've heard back from John Payne for the second time. The original setting
of 6 caused an intolerable delay. He went back and changed it to 3 as I
suggested in reply, and he says it now works! He took his Herculese card
out and resinstalled the SB Live and all is well. I guess it takes a little
experimenting depending on your system's configuration.

John Cauthen

> dave henrie

> > > Anybody have a good suggestion for a new sound card, my SB Live has a
> > > terrible crackling sound in N2002.
> > > I know this seems to be a common problem. So If anyone has a good
Audio
> > > Card recommendation I think I will just go buy one.

> > I made the following edits to the core.ini file on the demo, which
> > completely cured the poppping problem I had. I don't know if it works
in
> > the full game as I don't have it yet. I'm thinking it will though.

> > Sound]
> > allow_buffer_recreation=1 ; re-create sound buffers to
> > improve quality
> > enable_3d_interpolation=1 ; enable volume interpolation
for
> > 3d sound
> > force_default_buffer_size=6 ; Set forced buffer size in
1/36
> > second units. Define a value of 3 or larger
> > interpolationValue=0

> > John Cauthen

by **lane** » Mon, 18 Feb 2002 21:44:03

True. I had a problem trying to switch midstream on XP. But I think there is
a way around it if you really want to change it. Just requires a bit of
searching on the web. I've disabled ACPI myself because all your cards must
be ACPI compliant and implemented correctly, otherwise you will get problems
with it. I've also read on one overclocking website that having ACPI enabled
can cause frame rate slow down in games. Hard to believe, but that's what
their tests showed.

by **<bi..** » Mon, 18 Feb 2002 22:10:33

Can this line in the core.ini file to the following
and the crackling goes away on SBLIVE

force_default_buffer_size=5

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