Sound Blaster Live settings

I just received the SB value yesterday. WOW, what a difference in sound and FPS. In the pits with everything on, 16 sounds, 20 AI, I get a steady 34fps in the back of the field in the pits. While hosting on VROC with 11 others I had 4 screen hick ups the whole race long. My next step is to pick up a joy stick port/game card, I/O card... Then I wonder what my FPS will be with the same setup as above :-) At the moment I'm using 2 SUN 691H Multimedia powered speakers for the fronts and an old 8 track player with two 12" woofers and 3" mid range and 1" tweeter speakers for the rear. As soon as the garage sales start up I'll be getting a good surround sound speaker system. I'll be going after Mystic Music and/or Ultra Sound Inc. to help out with the sound balance and effects. I'll wait till I get a good system first though. In the mean time, With the above speaker setup.... What is the best sound setup for GPL? In the Environmental effects control, what is the best way to set this thing up? Revurb, chorus, original sound, ect. then what's the best setup as to xmhz, for each tone and such? I can only assume that there are not to many knowledgeable sound freaks out there. So, What do you have your sounds setup as, configured at ect... Without knowing what I'm doing I have my Ferrari engine sound coming out from the front (Powered PC speakers) and everything else coming out of the rear Big speakers. (That is till the cars pass me where I hear them in the front, God I love that effect). Any help and or tips would be appreciated, Mike Barlow -- ========================================= Mike Barlow of Barlow Racing? MikeBa on the TEN network. Member of R.O.R. 1999 http://w3.ime.net/~marknjess/noflame.html ========================================= Racing online with the help of...... Race Communications Association http://members.xoom.com/RCA/toc.html Holodyne Engineering Mystic Music mikeba.vcf < 1K Download

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> I just received the SB value yesterday. WOW, what a difference in >sound and FPS. In the pits with everything on, 16 sounds, 20 AI, I get >a steady 34fps in the back of the field in the pits. While hosting on >VROC with 11 others I had 4 screen hick ups the whole race long. My >next step is to pick up a joy stick port/game card, I/O card... Then I >wonder what my FPS will be with the same setup as above :-) > At the moment I'm using 2 SUN 691H Multimedia powered speakers for >the fronts and an old 8 track player with two 12" woofers and 3" mid >range and 1" tweeter speakers for the rear. As soon as the garage >sales start up I'll be getting a good surround sound speaker system. > I'll be going after Mystic Music and/or Ultra Sound Inc. to help out >with the sound balance and effects. I'll wait till I get a good system >first though. In the mean time, With the above speaker setup.... > What is the best sound setup for GPL? In the Environmental effects >control, what is the best way to set this thing up? Revurb, chorus, >original sound, ect. then what's the best setup as to xmhz, for each >tone and such? I can only assume that there are not to many >knowledgeable sound freaks out there. So, What do you have your sounds >setup as, configured at ect... > Without knowing what I'm doing I have my Ferrari engine sound coming >out from the front (Powered PC speakers) and everything else coming out >of the rear Big speakers. (That is till the cars pass me where I hear >them in the front, God I love that effect). > Any help and or tips would be appreciated, >Mike Barlow

Hi Mike! Sorry, but I can't help you with your question but I was wondering which CPU/MHz do you use on your computer? Just wondered I there is any use apart from the better sound quality to upgrade on my 504MHZ system?. Could it it be that the SB Live will give my computer better Hosting on VROC because of less stress on the overall system? Bye, Hans-Otto Lund