New Fortissimo drivers

Quick heads-up to anyone who may have missed these over Christmas. On Chirstmas Eve, Hercules released a unified driver for Fortissimo 2 & 3 and Digifire cards. (Over at www.hercules-uk.com - click on 'Support/drivers' at the top of the page.) Once you get to the download page, then unless you need access to the MIDI soundbanks, use the "Small Download" link about halfway down the grey frame, which saves about 8 meg. After months and months of stuttering, CTD's and BSOD's within GPL, I've just run a long session with full sound acceleration, plenty of fx, (including collisions!) and not once has the game stuttered or thrown me out. Looks promising so far... Sorry if this is old news, Cheers all, Rick.

Rick, do you have a Hercules 2 or 3? Can you use full dx acceleration in GPL? Do you use Dx9? (I'm still choosing between an Audigy Player or a Fortissimo 2) :-) "Rick Catton" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:av6tog$8jj$[email hidden]... > Quick heads-up to anyone who may have missed these over Christmas. On > Chirstmas Eve, Hercules released a unified driver for Fortissimo 2 & 3 and > Digifire cards. (Over at www.hercules-uk.com - click on 'Support/drivers'at

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> the top of the page.) Once you get to the download page, then unless you > need access to the MIDI soundbanks, use the "Small Download" link about > halfway down the grey frame, which saves about 8 meg. > > After months and months of stuttering, CTD's and BSOD's within GPL, I've > just run a long session with full sound acceleration, plenty of fx, > (including collisions!) and not once has the game stuttered or thrown me > out. Looks promising so far... > > Sorry if this is old news, > > Cheers all, > > Rick. > >

"Carl Ribbegaardh" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:av72h1$cmu9h$[email hidden]...

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> Rick, do you have a Hercules 2 or 3? > Can you use full dx acceleration in GPL? > Do you use Dx9? > > (I'm still choosing between an Audigy Player or a Fortissimo 2) > > :-)

Carl, I've got the Fortissimo II Digital Edition, and am running full dx acceleration under dx8.1. Like I said, it's early days yet, but still no problems to report. I don't know anything about the Audigy, but until today, would have warned you off the Fortissimo. I was running it under XP Home and getting lock-ups which weren't solved by going back to WinME. So far, though, using this new driver.... :) Regards, Rick.

On Sat, 4 Jan 2003 15:14:25 +0000 (UTC), "Rick Catton" <[email hidden]> wrote: >After months and months of stuttering, CTD's and BSOD's within GPL, I've >just run a long session with full sound acceleration, plenty of fx, >(including collisions!) and not once has the game stuttered or thrown me >out. Looks promising so far... Wow. Going to grab the new driver for my F3, thanks for the post. Jason

Thanks a lot! :-)

"Steve Jones" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]... > I have FortissimoII (not digital edition) and have never had a problem > with lockups in games. Are you using WinXP? Are you running GPL and/or Nascar 2002? Thanks :-)

"Rick Catton" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:av6tog$8jj$[email hidden]... > Quick heads-up to anyone who may have missed these over Christmas. On > Chirstmas Eve, Hercules released a unified driver for Fortissimo 2 & 3 and > Digifire cards. (Over at www.hercules-uk.com - click on 'Support/drivers'at

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> the top of the page.) Once you get to the download page, then unless you > need access to the MIDI soundbanks, use the "Small Download" link about > halfway down the grey frame, which saves about 8 meg. > > After months and months of stuttering, CTD's and BSOD's within GPL, I've > just run a long session with full sound acceleration, plenty of fx, > (including collisions!) and not once has the game stuttered or thrown me > out. Looks promising so far...

You are a lucky dog! I've moved from SBLive to Fortissimo III in a last ditch effort to rid myself of sound that makes the game undriveable. What did I get? Bad sound *and* stutters! See fairly recent thread for details... Using both supplied drivers and latest downloaded... Just had a thought, though. Could remnants of SBLive drivers be screwing things up for me? Anyone know if there's a "SBLive Destroyer" out there? Regards, Mark

"Steve Jones" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]...

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> On Sat, 4 Jan 2003 23:25:40 -0000, "Mark Davison" > <[email hidden]> reckoned: > > > Maybe, but it could be the PCI latency setting of your mb too. Default > is 32 and sometimes increasing it can help with stuttering sound > issues. Also, make sure you have all latest chipset drivers for the > mb.

Do you have any idea how I find this sort of thing out on a K7S5A mobo? I believe it's an SIS chipset but the documentation is sparse, to say the least... Cheers, Mark

On Sat, 04 Jan 2003 20:59:35 GMT, [email hidden] (Jason Moyer) wrote: >Wow. Going to grab the new driver for my F3, thanks for the post. Woo hoo. The crackling in GPL is gone as is the stuttering. To be fair, I haven't had sound problems in any of the dozens of other games or audio application that I use, so I just sort of assumed I'd have to live with it in GPL. Even Mafia, which is listed as one of the games that was having problems with the earlier drivers, ran smoothly on my system sound-wise. Jason

> Woo hoo. The crackling in GPL is gone as is the stuttering. > Phew - glad it wasn't just me they worked for!