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kxproject SB drivers

Uwe Schürkam

kxproject SB drivers

by Uwe Schürkam » Wed, 19 Jan 2005 03:46:45

Hi folks,

thanks to the hints posted here, I've managed to get the kxProject sb
drivers to work with my audigy 2 ZS. Everything works fine from N2003
to GPL, however I have a small problem in GPL soundwise: The engine
sound in single practise is fine, as is the outside / trackside engine
sound during races, but the in-car sound in races is completely
mangled and sounds more like white noise than my beloved repco
engine.

Any ideas what could be causing this or what settings I should play
with?

Thanks in advance,

uwe

ps: what got me going with the new drivers was plugging the speakers
into a different socket on the 2ZS sound card!

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Steve Smit

kxproject SB drivers

by Steve Smit » Wed, 19 Jan 2005 20:52:23

Doesn't the readme say it swaps front & rear speaker outputs by default 'cuz
the rears have a better SNR?


Uwe Schürkam

kxproject SB drivers

by Uwe Schürkam » Wed, 19 Jan 2005 22:48:10


> Doesn't the readme say it swaps front & rear speaker outputs by default 'cuz
> the rears have a better SNR?

That's why I tried a different "hole" at the back of the ZS2, but
still engine sound in races is garbled. 8.(

Cheers uwe

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Steve Smit

kxproject SB drivers

by Steve Smit » Thu, 20 Jan 2005 03:18:10

Bummah!



> > Doesn't the readme say it swaps front & rear speaker outputs by default
'cuz
> > the rears have a better SNR?

> That's why I tried a different "hole" at the back of the ZS2, but
> still engine sound in races is garbled. 8.(

> Cheers uwe

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Uwe Schürkam

kxproject SB drivers

by Uwe Schürkam » Thu, 20 Jan 2005 20:52:26


> Bummah!




>> > Doesn't the readme say it swaps front & rear speaker outputs by default
> 'cuz
>> > the rears have a better SNR?

>> That's why I tried a different "hole" at the back of the ZS2, but
>> still engine sound in races is garbled. 8.(

>> Cheers uwe

Turning down hw acceleration to "basic" fixed the problem. I thought
this wouldn't be necessary anymore with the kxproject drivers, but I'm
happy. ;-)

cheers,

uwe

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Asgeir Nesoe

kxproject SB drivers

by Asgeir Nesoe » Thu, 20 Jan 2005 22:18:31

The whole point of installing the kxproject drivers was to avoid
reducing the acceleration level in the first place...

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>> Any ideas what could be causing this or what settings I should play
>> with?

> Did you try reducing reducing the hardware acceleration for sound playback?
> Control panel->Sounds and Multimedia-> Audio tab-> Advanced button under
> sound playback->Performance Tab-> Set slider to Standard or basic to see
> if it helps.
> (this is w2k, hopefully XP is similar). Can't imagine why you didn't
> find this yourself. ;-)

> Ken

Uwe Schürkam

kxproject SB drivers

by Uwe Schürkam » Fri, 21 Jan 2005 19:00:39


> Agreed. Unfortunately I still get distorted sounds in GPL on one PC unless I
> reduce the hardware acceleration (works fine on another). ;-(  Just wanted to
> point out that the kx drivers didn't fix this in every case.

> Ken

Ok, I don't have a problem with turning down the acceleration a notch
or two (I hope I remember before my next league race on Saturday). As
long as the "sewing machine engine sound" in n2003 and friends appears
to be fixed (and so it seems), I'm a happy campy with the kxProject
drivers even on my halfway-supported Aud 2 ZS.

Cheers & thanks again for the link & the help,

uwe

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Asgeir Nesoe

kxproject SB drivers

by Asgeir Nesoe » Fri, 21 Jan 2005 19:17:46

It's always like that, eh? You think you were smart and fixed something,
and then, nope, nix, no go.

I wonder what *** trick Papy did with the sound to cause this
crackling sound... I remember once changing all the GPL sound samples
from 44 to 22 khz in order to use a SB 128 card... *sigh*. I would
believe GPL has some kind of sound card issue with every single sound
card out there, new and old alike...

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>> The whole point of installing the kxproject drivers was to avoid
>> reducing the acceleration level in the first place...

> Agreed. Unfortunately I still get distorted sounds in GPL on one PC
> unless I reduce the hardware acceleration (works fine on another). ;-(  
> Just wanted to point out that the kx drivers didn't fix this in every case.

> Ken


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