Poor gaming performance in XP

Fired up GPL in XP and it was pretty bad cracks and pops from sound card. Video stutter, poor FPS etc. N4 and SCGT work well but I wont it all in 1 OS. I thought it was my imagination so booted in W2K and GPL was smoooth. Tried various sound drivers and vid drivers which didn't help. My spec are: Dual Boot: XP RC2/ W2K XP using the 12.90 drivers W2K 11.01's 566 Celeron O/ced to 876 512 Crucial PC 133 Inno Geforce2 MX o/ced 190/190 Santa Cruz Sound Card Moniter refresh @ 85 2 IBM HD 7200 on Promise Controller I think possibly the problem lays with the TB Santa Cruz drivers possibly they have not have them developed properly yet. Anyone with had this problem with a similar config in XP? John

It's the sound card! I have been running various builds of the xp beta2 and all of them performed very near to the Win 98! Intel, Asus and Creative worked fine under XP! I also use DX 8.0a and latest official Nvidia drivers (those made a world of difference!), with that combo few very hardware hungry games worked well with silky smooth fps's! -- Oliver "JJohnsio" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:93Cb7.710$[email hidden]... > Fired up GPL in XP and it was pretty bad cracks and pops from sound card. > Video stutter, poor FPS etc. N4 and SCGT work well but I wont it all in 1 > OS. > I thought it was my imagination so booted in W2K and GPL was smoooth. > Tried various sound drivers and vid drivers which didn't help. My spec are: > > > Dual Boot: > > XP RC2/ W2K > XP using the 12.90 drivers W2K 11.01's > 566 Celeron O/ced to 876 > 512 Crucial PC 133 > Inno Geforce2 MX o/ced 190/190 > Santa Cruz Sound Card > Moniter refresh @ 85 > 2 IBM HD 7200 on Promise Controller > > I think possibly the problem lays with the TB Santa Cruz drivers possibly > they have not have them developed properly yet. > > Anyone with had this problem with a similar config in XP? > > John > >

i also have a TB Santa Cruz and had many problems with the sound.. When XP Loaded up, i had to sit at the desktop for a minute+ before sound was loaded... sometimes then, the sound didnt work right, just reptitive high pitched noise. Im waiting till XP is finaly before i try it again... im sticking to W2k.. "JJohnsio" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:93Cb7.710$[email hidden]... > Fired up GPL in XP and it was pretty bad cracks and pops from sound card. > Video stutter, poor FPS etc. N4 and SCGT work well but I wont it all in 1 > OS. > I thought it was my imagination so booted in W2K and GPL was smoooth. > Tried various sound drivers and vid drivers which didn't help. My specare:

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> > > Dual Boot: > > XP RC2/ W2K > XP using the 12.90 drivers W2K 11.01's > 566 Celeron O/ced to 876 > 512 Crucial PC 133 > Inno Geforce2 MX o/ced 190/190 > Santa Cruz Sound Card > Moniter refresh @ 85 > 2 IBM HD 7200 on Promise Controller > > I think possibly the problem lays with the TB Santa Cruz drivers possibly > they have not have them developed properly yet. > > Anyone with had this problem with a similar config in XP? > > John > >

Meant to say that all games are working nice under xp... -- Oliver "Slick" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:9kms68$mu1$[email hidden]... > It's the sound card! I have been running various builds of the xp beta2 and > all of them performed very near to the Win 98! Intel, Asus and Creative > worked fine under XP! > I also use DX 8.0a and latest official Nvidia drivers (those made a world of > difference!), with that combo few very hardware hungry games worked well > with silky smooth fps's! > > -- > > Oliver > > > "JJohnsio" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > news:93Cb7.710$[email hidden]... > > Fired up GPL in XP and it was pretty bad cracks and pops from sound card. > > Video stutter, poor FPS etc. N4 and SCGT work well but I wont it all in 1 > > OS. > > I thought it was my imagination so booted in W2K and GPL was smoooth. > > Tried various sound drivers and vid drivers which didn't help. My spec > are: > > > > > > Dual Boot: > > > > XP RC2/ W2K > > XP using the 12.90 drivers W2K 11.01's > > 566 Celeron O/ced to 876 > > 512 Crucial PC 133 > > Inno Geforce2 MX o/ced 190/190 > > Santa Cruz Sound Card > > Moniter refresh @ 85 > > 2 IBM HD 7200 on Promise Controller > > > > I think possibly the problem lays with the TB Santa Cruz drivers possibly > > they have not have them developed properly yet. > > > > Anyone with had this problem with a similar config in XP? > > > > John > > > > > > > >

Exactly ! I also get a high pitched sound too. I think TB needs to get to work with a dercent XP driver. The W2K TB drivers work fine as I said in the original post. Also I tried the latest TB Santa Cruz XP drivers dated, I think 8/2 and it blue screened GPL and Janes WWII Fighters. The W2K Santa Cruz drivers do not work in XP. Too bad I think the TB Santa Cruz is a good card and I bought it to avoid any issues with an upcoming upgrade to an AMD based system. J "Mike G. Main" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:3b6f0609$[email hidden]...

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> i also have a TB Santa Cruz and had many problems with the sound.. > > When XP Loaded up, i had to sit at the desktop for a minute+ before sound > was loaded... sometimes then, the sound didnt work right, just reptitive > high pitched noise. > > Im waiting till XP is finaly before i try it again... im sticking to W2k.. > > > > "JJohnsio" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > news:93Cb7.710$[email hidden]... > > Fired up GPL in XP and it was pretty bad cracks and pops from sound

card. > > Video stutter, poor FPS etc. N4 and SCGT work well but I wont it all in1

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> > OS. > > I thought it was my imagination so booted in W2K and GPL was smoooth. > > Tried various sound drivers and vid drivers which didn't help. My spec > are: > > > > > > Dual Boot: > > > > XP RC2/ W2K > > XP using the 12.90 drivers W2K 11.01's > > 566 Celeron O/ced to 876 > > 512 Crucial PC 133 > > Inno Geforce2 MX o/ced 190/190 > > Santa Cruz Sound Card > > Moniter refresh @ 85 > > 2 IBM HD 7200 on Promise Controller > > > > I think possibly the problem lays with the TB Santa Cruz drivers

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> > they have not have them developed properly yet. > > > > Anyone with had this problem with a similar config in XP? > > > > John > > > > > >

its a WONDERFUL card! i LOVE it! Im sure they will comeout with a driver soon...

"JJohnsio" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:f2Fb7.739$[email hidden]... > Exactly ! I also get a high pitched sound too. I think TB needs to get to > work with Your joking right?! The obvious consumor decision is to purchase a card that works and forget about the other junk. Go creative :-) -- [email hidden] > a dercent XP driver. The W2K TB drivers work fine as I said in the original > post. Also > I tried the latest TB Santa Cruz XP drivers dated, I think 8/2 and it blue > screened > GPL and Janes WWII Fighters. The W2K Santa Cruz drivers do not work in > XP. Too bad I think the TB Santa Cruz is a good card and I bought it to > avoid > any issues with an upcoming upgrade to an AMD based system. > > > J > > > > > "Mike G. Main" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > news:3b6f0609$[email hidden]... > > i also have a TB Santa Cruz and had many problems with the sound.. > > > > When XP Loaded up, i had to sit at the desktop for a minute+ before sound > > was loaded... sometimes then, the sound didnt work right, just reptitive > > high pitched noise. > > > > Im waiting till XP is finaly before i try it again... im sticking to W2k.. > > > > > > > > "JJohnsio" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > > news:93Cb7.710$[email hidden]... > > > Fired up GPL in XP and it was pretty bad cracks and pops from sound > card. > > > Video stutter, poor FPS etc. N4 and SCGT work well but I wont it all in > 1 > > > OS. > > > I thought it was my imagination so booted in W2K and GPL was smoooth. > > > Tried various sound drivers and vid drivers which didn't help. My spec > > are: > > > > > > > > > Dual Boot: > > > > > > XP RC2/ W2K > > > XP using the 12.90 drivers W2K 11.01's > > > 566 Celeron O/ced to 876 > > > 512 Crucial PC 133 > > > Inno Geforce2 MX o/ced 190/190 > > > Santa Cruz Sound Card > > > Moniter refresh @ 85 > > > 2 IBM HD 7200 on Promise Controller > > > > > > I think possibly the problem lays with the TB Santa Cruz drivers > possibly > > > they have not have them developed properly yet. > > > > > > Anyone with had this problem with a similar config in XP? > > > > > > John > > > > > > > > > > > >

I bought a TBSC because my Hercules GTXP has no drivers (at all) that will work under XP, and Hercules is in no hurry to support us. I'm kind of pissed about that because I really love that card. The TBSC, at $79, is a true bargain. EXCELLENT card. The Windows XP beta drivers have worked flawlessly for me so far. SoundBlaster Live card sounded absolutely terrible. Since the GTXP wouldn't work, I had to get the TBSC. For what it's worth, MS has really screwed up the sound layer in XP and has broken damned near everything out there. -Larry "Greg Cisko" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:Bxlc7.6371$[email hidden]... > > "JJohnsio" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > news:f2Fb7.739$[email hidden]... > > Exactly ! I also get a high pitched sound too. I think TB needs to getto

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> > work with > > Your joking right?! The obvious consumor decision is to purchase > a card that works and forget about the other junk. Go creative :-) > > -- > > [email hidden] > > > > > a dercent XP driver. The W2K TB drivers work fine as I said in the > original > > post. Also > > I tried the latest TB Santa Cruz XP drivers dated, I think 8/2 and it

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> > screened > > GPL and Janes WWII Fighters. The W2K Santa Cruz drivers do not work in > > XP. Too bad I think the TB Santa Cruz is a good card and I bought it to > > avoid > > any issues with an upcoming upgrade to an AMD based system. > > > > > > J > > > > > > > > > > "Mike G. Main" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > > news:3b6f0609$[email hidden]... > > > i also have a TB Santa Cruz and had many problems with the sound.. > > > > > > When XP Loaded up, i had to sit at the desktop for a minute+ before > sound > > > was loaded... sometimes then, the sound didnt work right, just

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> > > high pitched noise. > > > > > > Im waiting till XP is finaly before i try it again... im sticking to > W2k.. > > > > > > > > > > > > "JJohnsio" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > > > news:93Cb7.710$[email hidden]... > > > > Fired up GPL in XP and it was pretty bad cracks and pops from sound > > card. > > > > Video stutter, poor FPS etc. N4 and SCGT work well but I wont it all > in > > 1 > > > > OS. > > > > I thought it was my imagination so booted in W2K and GPL was

smoooth. > > > > Tried various sound drivers and vid drivers which didn't help. Myspec

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> > > are: > > > > > > > > > > > > Dual Boot: > > > > > > > > XP RC2/ W2K > > > > XP using the 12.90 drivers W2K 11.01's > > > > 566 Celeron O/ced to 876 > > > > 512 Crucial PC 133 > > > > Inno Geforce2 MX o/ced 190/190 > > > > Santa Cruz Sound Card > > > > Moniter refresh @ 85 > > > > 2 IBM HD 7200 on Promise Controller > > > > > > > > I think possibly the problem lays with the TB Santa Cruz drivers > > possibly > > > > they have not have them developed properly yet. > > > > > > > > Anyone with had this problem with a similar config in XP? > > > > > > > > John > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >

Relax, they still have a few months to fix it b4 they will have to slip the release date. Its not an official release yet, so they could theoretically have as many things screwed up as they want. If you are using it for anything more than testing, the problem is your own.... -- Biz "Don't touch that please, your primitive intellect wouldn't understand alloys and compositions and,......things with molecular structures,....and the....." - Ash Larry <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:ssrf7.134518$[email hidden]... > I bought a TBSC because my Hercules GTXP has no drivers (at all) that will > work under XP, and Hercules is in no hurry to support us. I'm kind of > pissed about that because I really love that card. > > The TBSC, at $79, is a true bargain. EXCELLENT card. > > The Windows XP beta drivers have worked flawlessly for me so far. > > SoundBlaster Live card sounded absolutely terrible. Since the GTXP wouldn't > work, I had to get the TBSC. > > For what it's worth, MS has really screwed up the sound layer in XP and has > broken damned near everything out there. > > -Larry > > "Greg Cisko" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > news:Bxlc7.6371$[email hidden]... > > > > "JJohnsio" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > > news:f2Fb7.739$[email hidden]... > > > Exactly ! I also get a high pitched sound too. I think TB needs to get > to > > > work with > > > > Your joking right?! The obvious consumor decision is to purchase > > a card that works and forget about the other junk. Go creative :-) > > > > -- > > > > [email hidden] > > > > > > > > > a dercent XP driver. The W2K TB drivers work fine as I said in the > > original > > > post. Also > > > I tried the latest TB Santa Cruz XP drivers dated, I think 8/2 and it > blue > > > screened > > > GPL and Janes WWII Fighters. The W2K Santa Cruz drivers do not work in > > > XP. Too bad I think the TB Santa Cruz is a good card and I bought it to > > > avoid > > > any issues with an upcoming upgrade to an AMD based system. > > > > > > > > > J > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > "Mike G. Main" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > > > news:3b6f0609$[email hidden]... > > > > i also have a TB Santa Cruz and had many problems with the sound.. > > > > > > > > When XP Loaded up, i had to sit at the desktop for a minute+ before > > sound > > > > was loaded... sometimes then, the sound didnt work right, just > reptitive > > > > high pitched noise. > > > > > > > > Im waiting till XP is finaly before i try it again... im sticking to > > W2k.. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > "JJohnsio" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > > > > news:93Cb7.710$[email hidden]... > > > > > Fired up GPL in XP and it was pretty bad cracks and pops from sound > > > card. > > > > > Video stutter, poor FPS etc. N4 and SCGT work well but I wont it all > > in > > > 1 > > > > > OS. > > > > > I thought it was my imagination so booted in W2K and GPL was > smoooth. > > > > > Tried various sound drivers and vid drivers which didn't help. My > spec > > > > are: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Dual Boot: > > > > > > > > > > XP RC2/ W2K > > > > > XP using the 12.90 drivers W2K 11.01's > > > > > 566 Celeron O/ced to 876 > > > > > 512 Crucial PC 133 > > > > > Inno Geforce2 MX o/ced 190/190 > > > > > Santa Cruz Sound Card > > > > > Moniter refresh @ 85 > > > > > 2 IBM HD 7200 on Promise Controller > > > > > > > > > > I think possibly the problem lays with the TB Santa Cruz drivers > > > possibly > > > > > they have not have them developed properly yet. > > > > > > > > > > Anyone with had this problem with a similar config in XP? > > > > > > > > > > John > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >

Well, no kidding... -Larry "Biz" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:79Bf7.51057$[email hidden]... > Relax, they still have a few months to fix it b4 they will have to slipthe > release date. Its not an official release yet, so they couldtheoretically

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> have as many things screwed up as they want. If you are using it for > anything more than testing, the problem is your own.... > > -- > Biz > > "Don't touch that please, your primitive intellect wouldn't understand > alloys and compositions and,......things with molecular structures,....and > the....." - Ash > > > Larry <[email hidden]> wrote in message > news:ssrf7.134518$[email hidden]... > > I bought a TBSC because my Hercules GTXP has no drivers (at all) that

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> > work under XP, and Hercules is in no hurry to support us. I'm kind of > > pissed about that because I really love that card. > > > > The TBSC, at $79, is a true bargain. EXCELLENT card. > > > > The Windows XP beta drivers have worked flawlessly for me so far. > > > > SoundBlaster Live card sounded absolutely terrible. Since the GTXP > wouldn't > > work, I had to get the TBSC. > > > > For what it's worth, MS has really screwed up the sound layer in XP and > has > > broken damned near everything out there. > > > > -Larry > > > > "Greg Cisko" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > > news:Bxlc7.6371$[email hidden]... > > > > > > "JJohnsio" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > > > news:f2Fb7.739$[email hidden]... > > > > Exactly ! I also get a high pitched sound too. I think TB needs to

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> > to > > > > work with > > > > > > Your joking right?! The obvious consumor decision is to purchase > > > a card that works and forget about the other junk. Go creative :-) > > > > > > -- > > > > > > [email hidden] > > > > > > > > > > > > > a dercent XP driver. The W2K TB drivers work fine as I said in the > > > original > > > > post. Also > > > > I tried the latest TB Santa Cruz XP drivers dated, I think 8/2 and

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> > blue > > > > screened > > > > GPL and Janes WWII Fighters. The W2K Santa Cruz drivers do not work > in > > > > XP. Too bad I think the TB Santa Cruz is a good card and I bought it > to > > > > avoid > > > > any issues with an upcoming upgrade to an AMD based system. > > > > > > > > > > > > J > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > "Mike G. Main" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > > > > news:3b6f0609$[email hidden]... > > > > > i also have a TB Santa Cruz and had many problems with the sound.. > > > > > > > > > > When XP Loaded up, i had to sit at the desktop for a minute+

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> > > W2k.. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > "JJohnsio" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > > > > > news:93Cb7.710$[email hidden]... > > > > > > Fired up GPL in XP and it was pretty bad cracks and pops from > sound > > > > card. > > > > > > Video stutter, poor FPS etc. N4 and SCGT work well but I wont it > all > > > in > > > > 1 > > > > > > OS. > > > > > > I thought it was my imagination so booted in W2K and GPL was > > smoooth. > > > > > > Tried various sound drivers and vid drivers which didn't help.

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> > spec > > > > > are: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Dual Boot: > > > > > > > > > > > > XP RC2/ W2K > > > > > > XP using the 12.90 drivers W2K 11.01's > > > > > > 566 Celeron O/ced to 876 > > > > > > 512 Crucial PC 133 > > > > > > Inno Geforce2 MX o/ced 190/190 > > > > > > Santa Cruz Sound Card > > > > > > Moniter refresh @ 85 > > > > > > 2 IBM HD 7200 on Promise Controller > > > > > > > > > > > > I think possibly the problem lays with the TB Santa Cruz drivers > > > > possibly > > > > > > they have not have them developed properly yet. > > > > > > > > > > > > Anyone with had this problem with a similar config in XP? > > > > > > > > > > > > John > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >