GPL bad scratchy sound

I just reinstalled GPL and I am having big problems with the sound. I am using an SB Live! card. I have never had problems with the sound in GPL before. Now it sounds very... "scratch" and just bad. It hurts to listen to it. I have tried moving the in game sounds from 16 down to 3. Nothing seems to help. Eventually it just "cures" itself and the sound goes back to normal, but it's really bad and I was wondering if anyone else has had anything like this and how to solve the problem. I am using DX 8.1, XP, latest drivers for everything, and patched GPL. Thanks! Tim AMD 1.2 ECS K7S5A 256 PC133 Voodoo 5 SB Live! Value

A lot of us have had the same trouble. Fortunately, the latest SB Live Drivers fix the trouble. Darf "Tim Elhajj" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:akcper$1hkt05$[email hidden]... > I just reinstalled GPL and I am having big problems with the sound. > > I am using an SB Live! card. I have never had problems with the sound inGPL > before. Now it sounds very... "scratch" and just bad. It hurts to listento > it. I have tried moving the in game sounds from 16 down to 3. Nothingseems

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> to help. Eventually it just "cures" itself and the sound goes back to > normal, but it's really bad and I was wondering if anyone else has had > anything like this and how to solve the problem. > > I am using DX 8.1, XP, latest drivers for everything, and patched GPL. > > Thanks! > > Tim > > AMD 1.2 > ECS K7S5A > 256 PC133 > Voodoo 5 > SB Live! Value > > >

Or switching to a Turtle Bay Santa Cruz card.... "Darf" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:3d6a0860$0$29910$[email hidden]...

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> A lot of us have had the same trouble. > Fortunately, the latest SB Live Drivers fix the trouble. > > Darf > > > "Tim Elhajj" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > news:akcper$1hkt05$[email hidden]... > > I just reinstalled GPL and I am having big problems with the sound. > > > > I am using an SB Live! card. I have never had problems with the sound in > GPL > > before. Now it sounds very... "scratch" and just bad. It hurts to listen > to > > it. I have tried moving the in game sounds from 16 down to 3. Nothing > seems > > to help. Eventually it just "cures" itself and the sound goes back to > > normal, but it's really bad and I was wondering if anyone else has had > > anything like this and how to solve the problem. > > > > I am using DX 8.1, XP, latest drivers for everything, and patched GPL. > > > > Thanks! > > > > Tim > > > > AMD 1.2 > > ECS K7S5A > > 256 PC133 > > Voodoo 5 > > SB Live! Value > > > > > > > >

"Steve Smith" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:hdoa9.131711$[email hidden]...

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> Or switching to a Turtle Bay Santa Cruz card.... > > "Darf" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > news:3d6a0860$0$29910$[email hidden]... > > A lot of us have had the same trouble. > > Fortunately, the latest SB Live Drivers fix the trouble. > > > > Darf

reduce the hardware sound acceleration one or two clicks...and the last time this thread was thru here one of the fixes that worked was to turn your overall sound down in windows and use your speakers volume to regain the sound level you had before. dave henrie

Thanks, I got the latest drivers, but that didn't fix it for me. "Darf" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:3d6a0860$0$29910$[email hidden]...

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> A lot of us have had the same trouble. > Fortunately, the latest SB Live Drivers fix the trouble. > > Darf > > > "Tim Elhajj" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > news:akcper$1hkt05$[email hidden]... > > I just reinstalled GPL and I am having big problems with the sound. > > > > I am using an SB Live! card. I have never had problems with the sound in > GPL > > before. Now it sounds very... "scratch" and just bad. It hurts to listen > to > > it. I have tried moving the in game sounds from 16 down to 3. Nothing > seems > > to help. Eventually it just "cures" itself and the sound goes back to > > normal, but it's really bad and I was wondering if anyone else has had > > anything like this and how to solve the problem. > > > > I am using DX 8.1, XP, latest drivers for everything, and patched GPL. > > > > Thanks! > > > > Tim > > > > AMD 1.2 > > ECS K7S5A > > 256 PC133 > > Voodoo 5 > > SB Live! Value > > > > > > > >

It's tempting, but I hate to just dump this card when I know it's worked before. Heh, my computer could use so many new parts right now (cpu, fast ram, video) I hate to invest in something like a new sound card. "Steve Smith" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:hdoa9.131711$[email hidden]...

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> Or switching to a Turtle Bay Santa Cruz card.... > > "Darf" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > news:3d6a0860$0$29910$[email hidden]... > > A lot of us have had the same trouble. > > Fortunately, the latest SB Live Drivers fix the trouble. > > > > Darf > > > > > > "Tim Elhajj" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > > news:akcper$1hkt05$[email hidden]... > > > I just reinstalled GPL and I am having big problems with the sound. > > > > > > I am using an SB Live! card. I have never had problems with the sound

in > > GPL > > > before. Now it sounds very... "scratch" and just bad. It hurts tolisten

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> > to > > > it. I have tried moving the in game sounds from 16 down to 3. Nothing > > seems > > > to help. Eventually it just "cures" itself and the sound goes back to > > > normal, but it's really bad and I was wondering if anyone else has had > > > anything like this and how to solve the problem. > > > > > > I am using DX 8.1, XP, latest drivers for everything, and patched

GPL.

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> > > > > > Thanks! > > > > > > Tim > > > > > > AMD 1.2 > > > ECS K7S5A > > > 256 PC133 > > > Voodoo 5 > > > SB Live! Value > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >

Thanks Dave, I will give the hardware sound acceleration a try. That's a good idea. I don't get the other thing, though. If you turn the sound down in Windows, doesn't it also limit the amount you can turn up the sound with the speakers? "Dave Henrie" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:QHpa9.29429$[email hidden]...

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> > "Steve Smith" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > news:hdoa9.131711$[email hidden]... > > Or switching to a Turtle Bay Santa Cruz card.... > > > > "Darf" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > > news:3d6a0860$0$29910$[email hidden]... > > > A lot of us have had the same trouble. > > > Fortunately, the latest SB Live Drivers fix the trouble. > > > > > > Darf > reduce the hardware sound acceleration one or two clicks...and the last > time this thread was thru here one of the fixes that worked was to turn

your > overall sound down in windows and use your speakers volume to regain the > sound level you had before. > > dave henrie > >

And I'll mention that simply switching to a Turtle Beach Santa Cruz card didn't solve the problem for me. It fixed it for some people, but not me. I ended up using PartitionMagic & creating a dual-boot system for Win98SE & XP. This is a problem that's been discussed a lot on the forums at www.gplea.org and there's a lot of good advice there, but for me nothing solved it short of stepping away from XP for GPL. This probably isn't what you want to do, but you've happened upon a common problem that is fairly easily fixed for some people (ie, new drivers) and not easily fixed in other cases (the new drivers didn't help my system). Mark "Tim Elhajj" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:akdfab$1i0q0t$[email hidden]...

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> Thanks, I got the latest drivers, but that didn't fix it for me. > > "Darf" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > news:3d6a0860$0$29910$[email hidden]... > > A lot of us have had the same trouble. > > Fortunately, the latest SB Live Drivers fix the trouble. > > > > Darf > > > > > > "Tim Elhajj" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > > news:akcper$1hkt05$[email hidden]... > > > I just reinstalled GPL and I am having big problems with the sound. > > > > > > I am using an SB Live! card. I have never had problems with the sound

in > > GPL > > > before. Now it sounds very... "scratch" and just bad. It hurts tolisten

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> > to > > > it. I have tried moving the in game sounds from 16 down to 3. Nothing > > seems > > > to help. Eventually it just "cures" itself and the sound goes back to > > > normal, but it's really bad and I was wondering if anyone else has had > > > anything like this and how to solve the problem. > > > > > > I am using DX 8.1, XP, latest drivers for everything, and patched

GPL.

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> > > > > > Thanks! > > > > > > Tim > > > > > > AMD 1.2 > > > ECS K7S5A > > > 256 PC133 > > > Voodoo 5 > > > SB Live! Value > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >

Is the file called SBLiveXPDrvUpdate.exe ? it is 9.03 Meg File Date is Wednesday, 17 July 2002, 3:26:01 PM This seems strange that it didn't fix it Darf > Thanks, I got the latest drivers, but that didn't fix it for me.

> > I don't get the other thing, though. If you turn the sound down inWindows, > doesn't it also limit the amount you can turn up the sound with the > speakers? Your powered speakers should have more than enough umph to handle reducing your windows output. What you are doing is reducing the chance for signal noise to be amplified. So if your bus or your card or some stray component is dirtying up your sound, the "less" you amplify it inside windows, the less noticiable it will be even if you turn up the volume on your speakers to match the old levels. dave henrie

I can't speak for Tim, but that is the driver file that I used & it didn't fix my GPL+XP sound problems on my SB Live. It has worked for some people, but it is not a cure-all fix. Just FYI... Mark "Darf" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:3d6a6f73$0$29910$[email hidden]...

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> Is the file called > > SBLiveXPDrvUpdate.exe ? > > it is 9.03 Meg > File Date is Wednesday, 17 July 2002, 3:26:01 PM > This seems strange that it didn't fix it > > Darf > > > > Thanks, I got the latest drivers, but that didn't fix it for me. > > >

That was what I had installed and it didn't work. There is actually another, newer update out. It is called LiveDrvPack.exe and is 25.3 MB. It did not work for me either. "Darf" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:3d6a6f73$0$29910$[email hidden]...

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> Is the file called > > SBLiveXPDrvUpdate.exe ? > > it is 9.03 Meg > File Date is Wednesday, 17 July 2002, 3:26:01 PM > This seems strange that it didn't fix it > > Darf > > > > Thanks, I got the latest drivers, but that didn't fix it for me. > > >

Ah, got it. That sounds like a good tip, Dave. I usually just turn it up full blast in Windows and then modulate it with the speakers. But you are correct, because I rarely turn the speakers up more than a quarter of the way, so I've got lots of room to play with it. Thanks! "Dave Henrie" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:Unva9.193574$me6.24607@sccrnsc01...

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> > > > I don't get the other thing, though. If you turn the sound down in > Windows, > > doesn't it also limit the amount you can turn up the sound with the > > speakers? > > Your powered speakers should have more than enough umph to handle > reducing your windows output. What you are doing is reducing the chance

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> signal noise to be amplified. So if your bus or your card or some stray > component is dirtying up your sound, the "less" you amplify it inside > windows, the less noticiable it will be even if you turn up the volume on > your speakers to match the old levels. > dave henrie > >

I am not going to fuss with a dual boot, but I am going to setup my old P3 550 with Win98SE and see what kind of framerate I can muster. I just this evening purchased a new Ge4 video card for the XP box, so now I can migrate my V5 to the 550. If nothing else, I am sure I can do fast lapping with to my hearts content. It would be nice if I could use 4x FSAA and race a full field of AI cars without any stutter. Heh, I only want a measly 36 FPS! ;) "Mark Roberts" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:3d6a6485$[email hidden]... > And I'll mention that simply switching to a Turtle Beach Santa Cruz card > didn't solve the problem for me. It fixed it for some people, but not me. > I ended up using PartitionMagic & creating a dual-boot system for Win98SE& > XP. This is a problem that's been discussed a lot on the forums at > www.gplea.org and there's a lot of good advice there, but for me nothing > solved it short of stepping away from XP for GPL. This probably isn'twhat > you want to do, but you've happened upon a common problem that is fairly > easily fixed for some people (ie, new drivers) and not easily fixed inother

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> cases (the new drivers didn't help my system). > > Mark > > "Tim Elhajj" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > news:akdfab$1i0q0t$[email hidden]... > > Thanks, I got the latest drivers, but that didn't fix it for me. > > > > "Darf" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > > news:3d6a0860$0$29910$[email hidden]... > > > A lot of us have had the same trouble. > > > Fortunately, the latest SB Live Drivers fix the trouble. > > > > > > Darf > > > > > > > > > "Tim Elhajj" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > > > news:akcper$1hkt05$[email hidden]... > > > > I just reinstalled GPL and I am having big problems with the sound. > > > > > > > > I am using an SB Live! card. I have never had problems with the

sound > in > > > GPL > > > > before. Now it sounds very... "scratch" and just bad. It hurts to > listen > > > to > > > > it. I have tried moving the in game sounds from 16 down to 3.Nothing > > > seems > > > > to help. Eventually it just "cures" itself and the sound goes backto > > > > normal, but it's really bad and I was wondering if anyone else hashad

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> > > > anything like this and how to solve the problem. > > > > > > > > I am using DX 8.1, XP, latest drivers for everything, and patched > GPL. > > > > > > > > Thanks! > > > > > > > > Tim > > > > > > > > AMD 1.2 > > > > ECS K7S5A > > > > 256 PC133 > > > > Voodoo 5 > > > > SB Live! Value > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >

I had an old XP driver for SB Live! that worked with my copy of Windows XP and GPL. But, I didn't keep a copy of that driver and every newer driver has not worked for me. None of the drivers loaded from Windows Update have worked, and none of the recent drivers loaded from Creative site have worked. Lowering the volume doesn't help, turning off the sound acceleration helps to some degree - the sound loses the bathtub quality but adds big clicks and pops. Good luck in your quest, but I have given up and ordered a new cheapo sound card with a CMI 8738 6 channel chip. It's not made by Creative. Keith. ------------- On Mon, 26 Aug 2002 01:38:48 -0700, "Tim Elhajj" <[email hidden]> wrote:

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>I just reinstalled GPL and I am having big problems with the sound. > >I am using an SB Live! card. I have never had problems with the sound in GPL >before. Now it sounds very... "scratch" and just bad. It hurts to listen to >it. I have tried moving the in game sounds from 16 down to 3. Nothing seems >to help. Eventually it just "cures" itself and the sound goes back to >normal, but it's really bad and I was wondering if anyone else has had >anything like this and how to solve the problem. > >I am using DX 8.1, XP, latest drivers for everything, and patched GPL. > >Thanks! > >Tim > >AMD 1.2 >ECS K7S5A >256 PC133 >Voodoo 5 >SB Live! Value > >

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