Avoid the the new Aureal reference drivers on MX300's

They fix the problem with lacking bass, but cause GPL to crash within a matter of seconds after beginning a face. The only way I was able to prevent it from happening is to reduce the audio hardware accelerations to the 2nd from lowest setting, but this also caused me to lose a lot of the 3d sound effects in A3d enabled programs. These new drivers also broke Starsiege and WW2 Fighters. Strange thing is that all three programs would crash with different error messages, none of which mention anything pertaining to the sound card. For the sake of experimentation, I tested the drivers on three different systems and experienced identical results. Upon removal of the beta reference drivers and re-installation of Diamond's, the problems went away. Too bad the bass went with them as well. Chris "How can you run from a dead person, unless you're dead yourself?" -Venus in Furs --Horrornews--Horrorchat--Reviews--General filth-- Mortado's Page of Filth http://www.shadows.com/mortado/

>They fix the problem with lacking bass, but cause GPL to crash within >a matter of seconds after beginning a face. The only way I was able to Did you try re-installing GPL after upgrading the drivers? and remember, most Diamond products have drivers that are not very close to reference drivers, the MX-300 may just be enough Diamond and not enough Aureal to work with Reference drivers. dave henrie

On Sun, 2 May 1999 20:20:15 -0700, "ddjhenrie"

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>>They fix the problem with lacking bass, but cause GPL to crash within >>a matter of seconds after beginning a face. The only way I was able to > Did you try re-installing GPL after upgrading the drivers? and remember, >most Diamond products have drivers that are not very close to reference >drivers, >the MX-300 may just be enough Diamond and not enough Aureal to work >with Reference drivers. >dave henrie

Yeah I tried reinstalling the broken games with no luck. From posts in comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard.games it seems as I am not alone. No big deal, I can keep using the older drivers and wait until Diamond tweaks the new ones to make them more compatible, if that is the problem. Even without the low end response, the gameport on the MX300 and the sound just destroy the Ensoniq board I used to have:) Chris "How can you run from a dead person, unless you're dead yourself?" -Venus in Furs --Horrornews--Horrorchat--Reviews--General filth-- Mortado's Page of Filth http://www.shadows.com/mortado/

Had no problems running GPL. Haven't tried WW2 fighters yet (cause I can't find the ***y CD!). Fixed a problem with Alpha Centauri crackling and popping. There wer some MX300's released with a slightly different chip. Perhaps your is one of them?

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> They fix the problem with lacking bass, but cause GPL to crash within > a matter of seconds after beginning a face. The only way I was able to > prevent it from happening is to reduce the audio hardware > accelerations to the 2nd from lowest setting, but this also caused me > to lose a lot of the 3d sound effects in A3d enabled programs. These > new drivers also broke Starsiege and WW2 Fighters. Strange thing is > that all three programs would crash with different error messages, > none of which mention anything pertaining to the sound card. For the > sake of experimentation, I tested the drivers on three different > systems and experienced identical results. Upon removal of the beta > reference drivers and re-installation of Diamond's, the problems went > away. Too bad the bass went with them as well. > Chris > "How can you run from a dead person, unless you're dead yourself?" > -Venus in Furs > --Horrornews--Horrorchat--Reviews--General filth-- > Mortado's Page of Filth http://www.nwlink.com/~mortado/