GPL and SBLive static

I installed Liveware 2.0 last night and played GPL for an hour or so afterwards. I noticed no difference in sound (ie. a little rough around the edges, but isn't that normal?). No better, no worse. I have an Abit BH6 w/Celeron 300a, 128mb ram, Phoenix Banshee AGP and SB Live. Are you running the Live on a board with the VIA MVP3 chipset by any chance? You can lessen the static by disabling UDMA autodetect in BIOS and making sure the DMA box for the hard drives in Device Manager is checked off. You will lose a little HD speed, but your SBLive will sound a lot better. This won't apply unless you have a VIA chipset, though! Any SB Live owners downloaded the new Liveware 2.0 drivers? I did this evening, and in GPL now, I get a lot of static. I had a little static before, but had been able to eliminate most of it by knocking hardware acceleration down a notch. Now I have it worse, and knocking the acceleration down doesn't seem to help. I'd be curious if other SB Live owners have gotten the new drivers and have the same problem. I have another new problem also, however this started a few days ago, before dowloading the new drivers. I am getting knocked to the replay screen during the race, whether in practice or the race. I'll be driving along then all of a sudden I'm looking at the replay screen, with a message to press pause to continue. Seems to happen randomly. Anyone else have this and know of a fix? -- Don Burnette Palmetto Racing Dburn on Ten http://members.home.net/d.burnette/Sportsman%204.htm

Any SB Live owners downloaded the new Liveware 2.0 drivers? I did this evening, and in GPL now, I get a lot of static. I had a little static before, but had been able to eliminate most of it by knocking hardware acceleration down a notch. Now I have it worse, and knocking the acceleration down doesn't seem to help. I'd be curious if other SB Live owners have gotten the new drivers and have the same problem. I have another new problem also, however this started a few days ago, before dowloading the new drivers. I am getting knocked to the replay screen during the race, whether in practice or the race. I'll be driving along then all of a sudden I'm looking at the replay screen, with a message to press pause to continue. Seems to happen randomly. Anyone else have this and know of a fix? -- Don Burnette Palmetto Racing Dburn on Ten http://members.home.net/d.burnette/Sportsman%204.htm

No, I'm running the 300A on an Abit BH6 as well. I somehow managed to get rid of the static problem, but am still getting punted to the pause screen during the race. I don't think the latter has anything to do with the new drivers though. -- Don Burnette Palmetto Racing Dburn on Ten http://members.home.net/d.burnette/Sportsman%204.htm I installed Liveware 2.0 last night and played GPL for an hour or so afterwards. I noticed no difference in sound (ie. a little rough around the edges, but isn't that normal?). No better, no worse. I have an Abit BH6 w/Celeron 300a, 128mb ram, Phoenix Banshee AGP and SB Live. Are you running the Live on a board with the VIA MVP3 chipset by any chance? You can lessen the static by disabling UDMA autodetect in BIOS and making sure the DMA box for the hard drives in Device Manager is checked off. You will lose a little HD speed, but your SBLive will sound a lot better. This won't apply unless you have a VIA chipset, though!

I have SB Live (Value) and using the Liveware 2.0 drivers with full HW acceleration. No problems with GPL. My system: PII 392 MHz, 128 MB, G200 8 MB, V2 12 MB, Abit BX6, MS FF wheel, and so on. ***************************************************** Tuomas Koskela WWW: http://cc.oulu.fi/~tkoskela/ *****************************************************

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> >Any SB Live owners downloaded the new Liveware 2.0 drivers? I did this > >evening, and in GPL now, I get a lot of static. I had a little static > >before, but had been able to eliminate most of it by knocking hardware > >acceleration down a notch. Now I have it worse, and knocking the > >acceleration down doesn't seem to help. I'd be curious if other SB Live > >owners have gotten the new drivers and have the same problem. > I have SB Live (Value) and using the Liveware 2.0 drivers with full HW > acceleration. No problems with GPL. My system: PII 392 MHz, 128 MB, > G200 8 MB, V2 12 MB, Abit BX6, MS FF wheel, and so on.

I've been trying to download the new drivers for the past 2 days.. I'm down to three megs left after many many hours of .5K/sec to 0K/sec... I think that Creative Labs' servers suck :) All 6 or 7 of them have been like that... I get about 250 K from one server before it times out, then Gozilla switches to the next one in line... sigh It had better be worth it :)

On Sun, 16 May 1999 13:01:50 -0500, "Karissa Thomas" Its NOT! Mad absolutely NO difference in GPL. Still have that wonderful static. G. Patricks

Mirror sites are up at the creative.products.sound_blaster.live newsgroup. There are no customised enviroments for GPL in the update. FWIW I am using Music-Audio CD {jazz} for GPL oddly enough, I haven't tried all environments but most of the *** pre-sets are overdone IMO..........to each his own :-) DN

The static problem may be caused by the Speaker Configuration (Speaker icon in the AudioHQ folder) set to headphones. Try changing it to one o the speakers settings. Worked for me. Marty

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> Any SB Live owners downloaded the new Liveware 2.0 drivers? I did this > evening, and in GPL now, I get a lot of static. I had a little static > before, but had been able to eliminate most of it by knocking hardware > acceleration down a notch. Now I have it worse, and knocking the > acceleration down doesn't seem to help. I'd be curious if other SB Live > owners have gotten the new drivers and have the same problem. > I have another new problem also, however this started a few days ago, before > dowloading the new drivers. I am getting knocked to the replay screen during > the race, whether in practice or the race. I'll be driving along then all of > a sudden I'm looking at the replay screen, with a message to press pause to > continue. Seems to happen randomly. Anyone else have this and know of a fix? > -- > Don Burnette > Palmetto Racing > Dburn on Ten > http://members.home.net/d.burnette/Sportsman%204.htm

The server is news.soundblaster.com -- Don Burnette Palmetto Racing Dburn on Ten http://members.home.net/d.burnette/Sportsman%204.htm

Here are a few: http://200.9.235.168/lw2w9x.zip http://www.callitechnic.com/ftp/lw2w9x.zip http://fun.s-one.net.sq/download/index.html Good luck!

: There are no customised enviroments for GPL in the update. FWIW I am using : Music-Audio CD {jazz} for GPL oddly enough, I haven't tried all environments : but most of the *** pre-sets are overdone IMO..........to each his own : :-) : DN I'll have to try that. Any suggestions from others? Chuck

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>: There are no customised enviroments for GPL in the update. FWIW I am using >: Music-Audio CD {jazz} for GPL oddly enough, I haven't tried all >environments >: but most of the *** pre-sets are overdone IMO..........to each his own >: :-) >: DN >I'll have to try that. Any suggestions from others? >Chuck

I made my own custom environment, beginning with the included 3D Racing environment and then lessening the reverb somewhat and adding a bit of the Chorus effect. I've found it to work well with the other Racing Sims I use -don

If I remember correctly, all mirror pages access the same download-page, so no improvement. Change the time you try. I also needed some trials for being successful BTW: IE5 is able to continue a partly done download (at least, if you don't shut down in between). Hope this helps Jens On Sun, 16 May 1999 13:01:50 -0500, "Karissa Thomas"

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>I've been trying to download the new drivers for the past 2 days.. I'm down >to three megs left after many many hours of .5K/sec to 0K/sec... I think >that Creative Labs' servers suck :) All 6 or 7 of them have been like >that... I get about 250 K from one server before it times out, then Gozilla >switches to the next one in line... sigh >It had better be worth it :)

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% If I remember correctly, all mirror pages access the same % download-page, so no improvement. Change the time you try. No, mirrors are "images" of the "original" site. A true mirror will constantly check the original site and automatically get images (i.e., download copies) of any changed files. Many of the mirror'ed sites are not true mirrors, in that they are not "automatically" being updated, but require the mirror operator to know when to update the files. -- **************************** Michael E. Carver ************************* Upside out, or inside down...False alarm the only game in town. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=<[ /./. [- < ]>=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

Hi Michael, I guess my post was a little unclear. If you access their download site from any of their mirrow-pages, you always get to the same site. The download-site is not mirrored (If I remember correctly). Jens On Thu, 20 May 1999 14:22:45 GMT, "Michael E. Carver"

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>% If I remember correctly, all mirror pages access the same >% download-page, so no improvement. Change the time you try. >No, mirrors are "images" of the "original" site. A true mirror will >constantly check the original site and automatically get images (i.e., >download copies) of any changed files. Many of the mirror'ed sites are >not true mirrors, in that they are not "automatically" being updated, >but require the mirror operator to know when to update the files.

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