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Offline OOZ662

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Continued: VOX causing lockups in need of hard reboot
« on: September 14, 2005, 06:28:49 PM »
Most of the onging problem is described here, about half way down and on.

Every time my computer freezes, I'm transmitting VOX. Sometimes I will be changing the view via hat switch at the same time.

The problems begin when Windows XP is updated. I haven't figured out which update is causing these lockups. (SP2)

It SEEMS that 3.0GHz Intel CPUs are the only ones falling prey, but that I'm not sure of.

Two people with the problem (the only ones that replied since I asked) both have SB Audigy 2 cards.

Setting aceshigh.exe's affinity to CPU 0 (Hyper Threading CPU) and its priority to Realtime reduce how often it occurs, but it still happens.

DxDiag
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Continued: VOX causing lockups in need of hard reboot
« Reply #1 on: September 15, 2005, 01:13:16 PM »
Hi OOZ,

as it comes i have the same soundcard so i checked out my directxdiag, am not having any crash problems with vox.

- I have a newer soundcard driver. it is from creative, but not whql certified. maybe worth a try to get that one instead of the one your using

- noticed your graphic cards driver is not the newest. while it probably has nothing to do with it you cant completly rule that out. but i dont think its a point.

-try to put the sound hardware acceleration to 0, if that helps up it again and see where the troubly starts

-might be a hyperthreading problem disabling it or installing a bios that has hyperthreading issues fixed might help, i personally never want to flash bios so be carefull here

hope i could bring you some ideas here, please tell us if any of this helped or you found a solution.

cu schutt


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Sound Devices
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            Description: SB Audigy 2 ZS Audio [A000]
 Default Sound Playback: Yes
 Default Voice Playback: Yes
            Hardware ID: PCI\VEN_1102&DEV_0004&SUBSYS_20021102&REV_04
        Manufacturer ID: 1
             Product ID: 100
                   Type: WDM
            Driver Name: ctaud2k.sys
         Driver Version: 5.12.0001.0444 (English)
      Driver Attributes: Final Retail
            WHQL Logo'd: No
          Date and Size: 6/23/2004 17:36:20, 371376 bytes
            Other Files:
        Driver Provider: Creative
         HW Accel Level: Standard
              Cap Flags: 0xF5F
    Min/Max Sample Rate: 4000, 192000
Static/Strm HW Mix Bufs: 64, 62
 Static/Strm HW 3D Bufs: 64, 62
              HW Memory: 0
       Voice Management: No
 EAX(tm) 2.0 Listen/Src: No, No
   I3DL2(tm) Listen/Src: No, No
Sensaura(tm) ZoomFX(tm): No
               Registry: OK
      Sound Test Result: All tests were successful.
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Continued: VOX causing lockups in need of hard reboot
« Reply #2 on: September 15, 2005, 04:38:40 PM »
1.6693 (Forceware 66.93) is the newest Omega driver.

Is that driver available at Creative's website?

HA is set at 3/4 as Skuzzy always reccomends. Will mess with this next.

I was thinking of disabling HT as a last resort.

Every time I say I've fixed it, it breaks again, so knock on wood when you read this; using Wave In (Windows handled VOX) seems to have solved it so far.
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« Reply #3 on: September 18, 2005, 01:30:38 PM »
I've had this problem since the switch from AH1. On my first VOX transmit of the session I get a 10 second screen freeze, often followed by a CTD. This is getting real old, REAL fast.

My system is less than a year old. Do I have to buy an Alienware setup just to run AH?

Operating System: Windows XP Home Edition (5.1, Build 2600) Service Pack 1 (2600.xpsp1.020828-1920)
           Language: English (Regional Setting: English)
System Manufacturer: Dell Computer Corporation
       System Model: Dimension 4600i              
               BIOS: Phoenix ROM BIOS PLUS Version 1.10 A07
          Processor: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.66GHz, ~2.6GHz
             Memory: 254MB RAM
          Page File: 167MB used, 458MB available
        Windows Dir: C:\WINDOWS
    DirectX Version: DirectX 9.0c (4.09.0000.0904)
DX Setup Parameters: Not found
     DxDiag Version: 5.03.0001.0904 32bit Unicode

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Sound Devices
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            Description: SoundMAX Digital Audio
 Default Sound Playback: Yes
 Default Voice Playback: Yes
            Hardware ID: PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_24D5&SUBSYS_01741028&REV_02
        Manufacturer ID: 1
             Product ID: 100
                   Type: WDM
            Driver Name: smwdm.sys
         Driver Version: 5.12.0001.3600 (English)
      Driver Attributes: Final Retail
            WHQL Logo'd: Yes
          Date and Size: 5/6/2003 10:14:34, 580992 bytes
            Other Files:
        Driver Provider: Analog Devices
         HW Accel Level: Standard
              Cap Flags: 0xB5B
    Min/Max Sample Rate: 8000, 96000
Static/Strm HW Mix Bufs: 1, 0
 Static/Strm HW 3D Bufs: 0, 0
              HW Memory: 0
       Voice Management: No
 EAX(tm) 2.0 Listen/Src: No, No
   I3DL2(tm) Listen/Src: No, No
Sensaura(tm) ZoomFX(tm): No
               Registry: OK
      Sound Test Result: Not run

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Sound Capture Devices
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            Description: SoundMAX Digital Audio
  Default Sound Capture: Yes
  Default Voice Capture: Yes
            Driver Name: smwdm.sys
         Driver Version: 5.12.0001.3600 (English)
      Driver Attributes: Final Retail
          Date and Size: 5/6/2003 10:14:34, 580992 bytes
              Cap Flags: 0x41
           Format Flags: 0xCCC
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Continued: VOX causing lockups in need of hard reboot
« Reply #4 on: September 18, 2005, 03:30:36 PM »
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Originally posted by OOZ662
Every time I say I've fixed it, it breaks again, so knock on wood when you read this; using Wave In (Windows handled VOX) seems to have solved it so far.


I've practically confirmed it; Wave In fixes my problem.
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