SB Live Value and GPL

I replaced my SBPCI64 yesterday with the SB Live Value and all the static problems I had with GPL are gone! Patrick's sound files are amazing with this card. Real Audio files play much more clearly, and Streaming Audio is almost CD quality. The card installed very easily in Win98 and I was back up and running, listening to the Sebring 12 Hours, within 15 minutes. I found the card, an OEM version, at Envision in Southern California, www.env.com. It was on sale for $59.95 cash. -don

I also picked one up this weekend - replacing a Creative Ensoniq PCI. I *am* getting some audio glitches and static now and then. People have mentioned these problems here before - are there any fixes for it? -- Pat Dotson IMPACT Motorsports http://www.impactmotorsports.com/pd.html > I replaced my SBPCI64 yesterday with the SB Live Value and all the static > problems I had with GPL are gone! Patrick's sound files are amazing with this > card. Real Audio files play much more clearly, and Streaming Audio is almost CD > quality.

Try reducing the hardware acceleration for the Sblive a notch Pat. I was hearing some static with the Sblive, and it seemed to help. -- Don Burnette Palmetto Racing Dburn on Ten > I also picked one up this weekend - replacing a Creative > Ensoniq PCI. I *am* getting some audio glitches and > static now and then. People have mentioned these problems > here before - are there any fixes for it? > -- > Pat Dotson > IMPACT Motorsports > http://www.impactmotorsports.com/pd.html > > I replaced my SBPCI64 yesterday with the SB Live Value and all the static > > problems I had with GPL are gone! Patrick's sound files are amazing with this > > card. Real Audio files play much more clearly, and Streaming Audio is almost CD > > quality.

> Try reducing the hardware acceleration for the Sblive a notch Pat. I was > hearing some static with the Sblive, and it seemed to help. Thanks for the tip Don. Where is this adjustment located? I don't see it in the device manager properties menu for the sound card. -- Pat Dotson IMPACT Motorsports http://www.impactmotorsports.com/pd.html

It's under the Multimedia control panel, but it may not appear under Win95. My home machine with Win98 displays it, but my office rig with 95 doesn't. Trips

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> > Try reducing the hardware acceleration for the Sblive a notch Pat. I was > > hearing some static with the Sblive, and it seemed to help. > Thanks for the tip Don. Where is this adjustment > located? I don't see it in the device manager > properties menu for the sound card. > -- > Pat Dotson > IMPACT Motorsports > http://www.impactmotorsports.com/pd.html

Go into control panel, and double click on Multimedia. This should bring up the multimedia properties for your SbLive card. Notice the top half is for playback, and bottom half is for recording. Click on the advanced properties tab for playback. Then click on the performance tab. Here you can reduce the hardware acceleration. I reduced mine 1 notch and it seemed to help. I may have lost some effects by doing this, perhaps the number of sounds, I haven't really been able to run GPL much lately to see, but the static certainly seemed better. Give it a try, I'd be interested in your results, I know you run GPL more than I do. Don Burnette Palmetto Racing Dburn on Ten ----- Original Message ----- Newsgroups: rec.autos.simulators Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 1999 8:56 AM Subject: Re: SB Live Value and GPL

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> > Try reducing the hardware acceleration for the Sblive a notch Pat. I was > > hearing some static with the Sblive, and it seemed to help. > Thanks for the tip Don. Where is this adjustment > located? I don't see it in the device manager > properties menu for the sound card. > -- > Pat Dotson > IMPACT Motorsports > http://www.impactmotorsports.com/pd.html

Go to control panel, multimedia, on the audio tab clik on advanced properties under playback, preferred devices then on the performance tab. It should be the same for windows 95.

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>It's under the Multimedia control panel, but it may not appear under Win95. My >home machine with Win98 displays it, but my office rig with 95 doesn't. >Trips >> > Try reducing the hardware acceleration for the Sblive a notch Pat. I was >> > hearing some static with the Sblive, and it seemed to help. >> Thanks for the tip Don. Where is this adjustment >> located? I don't see it in the device manager >> properties menu for the sound card. >> -- >> Pat Dotson >> IMPACT Motorsports >> http://www.impactmotorsports.com/pd.html

> Go to control panel, multimedia, on the audio tab clik on advanced > properties under playback, preferred devices then on the performance > tab. It should be the same for windows 95. Perhaps it should be the same, but my Win95 machine had no performance tab, only the Win98 machine had it. YMMV. Trips