Author Topic: Freezing With New Sound Card (Read 374 times)

Blue44 · « **on:** December 14, 2002, 02:44:07 PM »

I installed a new Sound Blaster Audigy sound card and ever since I am experencing lags, warps and stalls when going into the attack mode. If I pull the trigger or attempt to drop a bomb everything freezes and my Frame Rates have dropped as low as 5. My computer is huge and I have DSL. My video card is also a new GeForce4 Ti4200 and it was installed 1st and worked fine. I have a HP Pent 4 with Intel Processor 1.3GH, 512 MB Ram, and performance shows 85-96%. I went to a website and d/l'd the latest drivers for the sound card and video card and still freeze. If I'm just flying along with no real action everything is fine. It only happens when things get busy. At my wits end! Anyone have any ideas. This has been happening since 12/7 or thereabouts.

Ghosth · « **Reply #1 on:** December 14, 2002, 03:34:56 PM »

Try going back to your old sound card, see if it still happens.

Something about playing AH sounds is pulling lots of CPU cycles by the sound of it.

Some cards are a lot more CPU intensive, others do more onboard.

MANDOBLE · « **Reply #2 on:** December 15, 2002, 06:25:56 AM »

Try setting audio hardware acceleration to 3/4 from DxDiag. BTW, my SB Audigy in in the trashcan for the same reason (W98SE here).

Toad · « **Reply #3 on:** December 15, 2002, 08:33:56 AM »

What Mandoble said.

Start/Programs/Accessories/System Tools/System Information/Tools/DirectX Diagnostic Tool/Sound

Just move the slider back. It'll help, it may not solve the problem.

AKDejaVu · « **Reply #4 on:** December 15, 2002, 10:12:17 AM »

I second Toad's "What mandoble said".

Flittt · « **Reply #5 on:** December 19, 2002, 01:50:36 PM »

My Audigy works fine... do you by chance have onboard sound on the M/B? if so, try disabling it (in the bios)

Skuzzy · « **Reply #6 on:** December 19, 2002, 02:12:45 PM »

Interrupt shared with another device?

And absolutely crank the hardware acceleration down to 3/4.

Hardware Sound acceleration does not do what you think it does. I need to write this up in the Technical forums to make folks understand this.

Terror · « **Reply #7 on:** December 19, 2002, 04:41:26 PM »

I have this exact same problem, but with the SB Audigy 2. I have move the "Hardware Accelleration" to 3/4 but still have the problem. This is with a spanking new install of WinME w/DX8.1b.

Asus CUV4X MBoard
Intel 1G P3
384MB Mem
Hercules Prophet III Geforce3 64MB
SB Audigy 2
Saitek X45 Combo w/Dhauzimmer v2.105 and HazardScript v0.8

Sometime the fps can drop to 3-4 especially when I squeeze the trigger to fire guns. (Before the Audigy2, I rarely dropped below 45fps and then only under clouds or near smoke.)

Terror

Skuzzy · « **Reply #8 on:** December 19, 2002, 04:42:47 PM »

Sounds like you sound card is sharing an interrupt Terror.