rec.autos.simulators

I installed Liveware 2.0 last night and played GPL for an hour or so afterwards.

I noticed no difference in sound (ie. a little rough around the edges, but isn't that normal?).  No better, no worse.

I have an Abit BH6 w/Celeron 300a, 128mb ram, Phoenix Banshee AGP and SB Live.

Are you running the Live on a board with the VIA MVP3 chipset by any chance?  You can lessen the static by disabling UDMA autodetect in BIOS and making sure the DMA box for the hard drives in Device Manager is checked off.  You will lose a little HD speed, but your SBLive will sound a lot better.  This won't apply unless you have a VIA chipset, though!

  Any SB Live owners downloaded the new Liveware 2.0 drivers? I did this
  evening, and in GPL now, I get a lot of static. I had a little static
  before, but had been able to eliminate most of it by knocking hardware
  acceleration down a notch. Now I have it worse, and knocking the
  acceleration down doesn't seem to help. I'd be curious if other SB Live
  owners have gotten the new drivers and have the same problem.

  I have another new problem also, however this started a few days ago, before
  dowloading the new drivers. I am getting knocked to the replay screen during
  the race, whether in practice or the race. I'll be driving along then all of
  a sudden I'm looking at the replay screen, with a message to press pause to
  continue. Seems to happen randomly. Anyone else have this and know of a fix?

  --
  Don Burnette
  Palmetto Racing
  Dburn on Ten
  http://www.racesimcentral.net/%204.htm

I have another new problem also, however this started a few days ago, before
dowloading the new drivers. I am getting knocked to the replay screen during
the race, whether in practice or the race. I'll be driving along then all of
a sudden I'm looking at the replay screen, with a message to press pause to
continue. Seems to happen randomly. Anyone else have this and know of a fix?

--
Don Burnette
Palmetto Racing
Dburn on Ten
http://members.home.net/d.burnette/Sportsman%204.htm

No, I'm running the 300A on an Abit BH6 as well. I somehow managed to get rid of the static problem, but am still getting punted to the pause screen during the race. I don't think the latter has anything to do with the new drivers though.

--
Don Burnette
Palmetto Racing
Dburn on Ten
http://members.home.net/d.burnette/Sportsman%204.htm

  I installed Liveware 2.0 last night and played GPL for an hour or so afterwards.

  I noticed no difference in sound (ie. a little rough around the edges, but isn't that normal?).  No better, no worse.

  I have an Abit BH6 w/Celeron 300a, 128mb ram, Phoenix Banshee AGP and SB Live.

  Are you running the Live on a board with the VIA MVP3 chipset by any chance?  You can lessen the static by disabling UDMA autodetect in BIOS and making sure the DMA box for the hard drives in Device Manager is checked off.  You will lose a little HD speed, but your SBLive will sound a lot better.  This won't apply unless you have a VIA chipset, though!

I have SB Live (Value) and using the Liveware 2.0 drivers with full HW
acceleration. No problems with GPL. My system: PII 392 MHz, 128 MB,
G200 8 MB, V2 12 MB, Abit BX6, MS FF wheel, and so on.

*****************************************************
Tuomas Koskela

WWW:     http://cc.oulu.fi/~tkoskela/
*****************************************************

It had better be worth it :)

Its NOT! Mad absolutely NO difference in GPL. Still have that
wonderful static.

G. Patricks

Mirror sites are up at the creative.products.sound_blaster.live newsgroup.
There are no customised enviroments for GPL in the update. FWIW I am using
Music-Audio CD {jazz} for GPL oddly enough, I haven't tried all environments
but most of the *** pre-sets are overdone IMO..........to each his own
:-)

DN

Worked for me.

Marty

The server is news.soundblaster.com
--
Don Burnette
Palmetto Racing
Dburn on Ten
http://members.home.net/d.burnette/Sportsman%204.htm

Good luck!

: There are no customised enviroments for GPL in the update. FWIW I am using
: Music-Audio CD {jazz} for GPL oddly enough, I haven't tried all environments
: but most of the *** pre-sets are overdone IMO..........to each his own
: :-)
: DN

I'll have to try that.  Any suggestions from others?
Chuck

I've found it to work well with the other Racing Sims I use

-don

I also needed some trials for being successful

BTW: IE5 is able to continue a partly done download (at least, if you
don't shut down in between).

Hope this helps

Jens

On Sun, 16 May 1999 13:01:50 -0500, "Karissa Thomas"

No, mirrors are "images" of the "original" site.  A true mirror will
constantly check the original site and automatically get images (i.e.,
download copies) of any changed files.  Many of the mirror'ed sites are
not true mirrors, in that they are not "automatically" being updated,
but require the mirror operator to know when to update the files.

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I guess my post was a little unclear.
If you access their download site from any of their mirrow-pages, you
always get to the same site. The download-site is not mirrored (If I
remember correctly).

Jens

On Thu, 20 May 1999 14:22:45 GMT, "Michael E. Carver"