rec.autos.simulators

> Your mouse has moved. Windows must be restarted for the change
> to take effect. Reboot now?

> > No hardware changes whatsoever.  Upgraded from Win98SE to XP Pro.
> > Relatively uneventful except that the OEM SB Audigy card gave me a bunch
> of
> > problems.  Card remained uninstalled after upgrade, so I reinstalled
from
> > original CD.  The install went ahead "automatically" but then resulted
in
> > lots of audio problems.  I then realised that the CD had no XP drivers
on
> > it...the 2000 drivers were being used.

> > Also had the annoying volume resetting to full after every re-boot,
which
> I
> > had initially in 98SE.  Cured it back then by installing the latest
> drivers
> > from Creative (when the eventually came out).  Downloaded the latest
> drivers
> > for XP and tried installing...total mayhem.

> > Fiddled around for a few hours and then just thought it isn't worth it.
I
> > got a burn of a current Audigy OEM installation CD from my vendor.
> > Installed it and everything was perfects and back to stable--except for
a
> > slight case of static "sparkles" in GPL and pronounced hiss in NR2002
> where
> > there used to be no static and a nice wind noise.

> > Upgraded drivers to the latest from the Creative site (which worked
> > perfectly this time), but no effect on the static and hiss.  No other
game
> > so far has an audio problem.

> > Tried several video drivers--no effect.  Tried backing down hardware
> > acceleration--actually makes the problem worse.  Tried using lower
quality
> > sampling--no effect.

> > The only difference, besides the obvious drivers, is that the IRQ's are
> now
> > being assigned by ACPI (higher numbers) instead of the old fashioned
way.
> > According to the BIOS and the old Win98, I have no shared IRQ's.  There
> are
> > no overlapping numbers under XP, of course.

> > Any ideas?

> > Marc

>    You've already covered most of the bases...other than trying to
> physically move the sound card to another slot...preferably far away from
> the vid card...I don't have any other ideas.
> Good Luck..let us know if you find a cure.
> dave henrie

> > --

> > Your mouse has moved. Windows must be restarted for the change
> > to take effect. Reboot now?

> -Larry

> > I didn't see it but do you have a Nvidia video card?  Both Nvidia and
> > Creative drivers go out and try and grab as much of the PCI bus as they
> can.
> > I wouldn't be surprised if this a big cause of the downgrade of pnline
> play
> > with a modem now that most new modems are PCI based instead of ISA. I
had
> a
> > major problems racing online with a new system in N4 when I didn't with
my
> > old system one. I was getting the 10035 error which is "Network device
not
> > availible" alot. After switching to an external modem to get the modem
off
> > the PCI bus. (old system was an ISA modem) all was well again.

> > I'm not trying to be a smart ass but the best cure for your problem is a
> > Turtle Beach card. Creative products are not what the use to be, and it
> > really shows in Papy games. Back when N4 was out I dumped my SB Live
card
> > and went to a Philips AE and gained 15fps!  Now that I write this I
wonder
> > how a PCI based modem would work now.

> > MadDAWG