rec.autos.simulators

With both a clone Voodoo2 and a Diamond MX300 with drivers dated
11/18/98 I get a terrible extra sound channel a bit like a short-wave
radio picking up interference. It only happens when the game is
playing normal engine noises, it's OK sitting at the menu screen. It's
distracting during racing, and ***y annonying at the garage menus.
I've tried going from 4 voices to 16, but more voices just introduces
more static!

Anyone seen this? Anyone got a fix?

Also, the mouse cursor occasionally gets leaves behind a glitch when
changing resolutions, although I think this might be more a problem of
my Matrox G200.

Neither of these problenms happened before I added the V2 board.

TIA

Ken

I had one friend with a similar problem and a motherboard exchange was
needed due to the way the PCI bus was being handled.

Good luck.

Can anyone else finish my half-baked response...?

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-/- Walk Walker
Official HAL Backmarker

start menu - settings - control panel - multimedia

Under the audio tab there should be an "advanced"
button.  In this menu there is a hardware acceleration
slider.

FWIW, that slider didn't help with my SB Live static
problem.

*** Disabling UDMA does solve it. ***

Don't know if any of this will help the MX300.

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Pat Dotson
IMPACT Motorsports
http://www.impactmotorsports.com/pd.html

Didn't work for my MX300 either!

I thought UDMA was a hard disk standard? Anyway, I did that and no
change.

Maybe I'll try swapping slots, if the pass-through cable will bridge
the gap.

Nope, no luck, but I also pulled my TV Card, and GPL works again. I
won't be able to watch Japanese TV anymore (but I'll put it back in
for the Grand Prix) but if you've watched any TV over here, you'll
know I won't be missing much.

Ken

Ugh, no, it just delayed the onset of troubles - it's now about a
minute before the static starts.

Ken

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Pat Dotson
IMPACT Motorsports
http://www.impactmotorsports.com/pd.html