help. DX7 messes up GPl sound??

Hi all, Got a voodoo 3 3000, love it. installed it with the OEM drivers, worked perfectly in GPL. I should not have messed with a good thing, but I thought i'd get the latest drivers for it... bad idea. It installed the drivers AND DX7, and I think that is what is causing MAJOR sound problems within GPL. I have an SB Live Value card that sounded perfect until I loaded the new 3dfx drivers with DX7. Now the sound is garbled... the revs don't come up smoothly, they are choppy. I am majorly mad. as a precaution, i got the new SB Live drivers too... didn't help a***. I've reinstalled the 3dfx drivers, too, nothing helps. So has anyone used something called DX Remove? If so, where can I get it? I want to get rid of DX7 and go back to 6.1. Thanks, --Dave -- Dave Schwabe "If you're in control, you're not going fast enough" -- Parnelli Jones The Aussie Toad -- GPL Brabham Page http://users.wi.net/~schwabe

I've the same components as you, with DX7. Thing you can try, is putting the soundcard in another PCI slot... Oh, didn't try your setup, yet. Will do tomorrow! Cheers! Remco

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>Hi all, >Got a voodoo 3 3000, love it. installed it with the OEM drivers, worked >perfectly in GPL. >I should not have messed with a good thing, but I thought i'd get the latest >drivers for it... bad idea. It installed the drivers AND DX7, and I think >that is what is causing MAJOR sound problems within GPL. I have an SB Live >Value card that sounded perfect until I loaded the new 3dfx drivers with >DX7. Now the sound is garbled... the revs don't come up smoothly, they are >choppy. I am majorly mad. >as a precaution, i got the new SB Live drivers too... didn't help a***. >I've reinstalled the 3dfx drivers, too, nothing helps. >So has anyone used something called DX Remove? If so, where can I get it? I >want to get rid of DX7 and go back to 6.1. >Thanks, >--Dave >-- >Dave Schwabe >"If you're in control, you're not going fast enough" -- Parnelli Jones >The Aussie Toad -- GPL Brabham Page >http://users.wi.net/~schwabe

I'd be inclined to think that it is the Voodoo drivers that might be doing this. I have to use the 1.02.18 drivers because the 1.03.04 ones mess up System Shock 2, and gameplay is much slower in most games. When I go back to an older version, even with DX7 installed everything is fine. If you need them you can get past drivers from http://www.voodoo.dk Might be worth a try. Regards Andrew -- Andrew Carroll Kodak Limited Hemel Hempstead, UK --------------------- Any views expressed above are entirely my own, and should not be taken to be the views of Kodak Limited or Eastman Kodak Company.