SB Live and Unreal Engine Games
Deus Ex, Unreal Gold, and Unreal Tournament, all of these games run with very distorted/crackling sound under Windows XP Pro for me, this happens 9 times out of 10. What I don't understand is how sometimes it works perfectly fine, but if you exit the program and relaunch it, the crackling returns.
Deus Ex, Unreal Gold, and Unreal Tournament, all of these games run with very distorted/crackling sound under Windows XP Pro for me, this happens 9 times out of 10. What I don't understand is how sometimes it works perfectly fine, but if you exit the program and relaunch it, the crackling returns. Currently using driver 5.1.2602 from MS, but I also tried the ones from Creative's site and the default MS drivers, same problems. I also tried lowering the sound acceleration level in DXDiag, no help there either. Oh and yeah I have a VIA Based Motherboard (VIA KX133)
Can someone recommend a solution or driver release that can fix this?
Or perhaps a better sound card? These Santa Cruz cards look interesting, where can I get one in Canada or online?
Can someone recommend a solution or driver release that can fix this?
Or perhaps a better sound card? These Santa Cruz cards look interesting, where can I get one in Canada or online?
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It is possible that I could be wrong about this, but I beleive that it's not your sound card @ fault, but your mobo - specifically the chipset. From what I've read there were some major issues with the KX133 chipset, especially with the Live cards. If you haven't tried a BIOS update, you could try try that, but it may be wiser to look for a newer mobo.
I'm not bashing VIA [i have the KT133A chipset myself], just the KX133.
I'm not bashing VIA [i have the KT133A chipset myself], just the KX133.
Yep you've run into the SB Live flaw It's a major hardware problem that exists in about 25% of all Live cards. The major symptoms are sound distortions, AGP bus data corruption, and random hard drive corruption. Some people have been able to fix the problem somewhat with the Latency Patch. But if that doesn't work your only solution is to remove the Live card and reinstall Windows without it plugged in. It messes up the m/b's and Windows' PNP so that even replacing the sound card with a different one will not normally fix your problems. Reinstalling Windows and forcing it to re-init the PNP system on the m/b and it windows seems to be the only fix for it
BTW - According to Creative this problem doesn't and hasn't ever existed, so I guess we're not really having this conversation.
BTW - According to Creative this problem doesn't and hasn't ever existed, so I guess we're not really having this conversation.
