Aces High Bulletin Board
General Forums => Aces High General Discussion => Topic started by: Zoldamite on December 04, 2004, 08:00:38 AM
-
ok so i slick hard drive get everything loaded back up, well i didnt think there was a cd included when i bought it but im not sure, and same with speakers they are Crystal WDM audio i think but those arent important right now all i want is my headset to work.
so if possible then could anyone email me the plantronics drivers, email is starrsurfboards@yahoo.com i checked the plantronics website tried to download it and cant seem to get any of the "software" or anything from them to work
-
one more thing, i tried not using the usb and hooking them up through the normal sound plugs and still cant get it
on the back of the usb plugin it says USB DSP v2 if that helps
im guessing this is the reason why AH wont play without exiting its self out, because no audio devices are installed according to my computer :(
-
wake up and help me, if you want easy kills i suggest providing a driver so i can play:)
-
mmm mine came with an installation disk...no drivers though....works great btw!!
-
yeah it worked great but just for the installation disk i can not find, i finally found something and then it tells me to insert the disk titled like plantronics installation or something....any ideas where to look?
-
It loads as PERSONO go to START then ALL PROGRAMS and run it comes up with a console which allows you to tweak the headset sound.
I also forgot to turn off the mute button on the headset which too a while to work out what was wrong....
-
http://www.plantronics.com/canada/en_US/support/downloads.jhtml
-
This is neither here nor there, but I've always wanted to tell Zoldamite he has one of the more intriguing avatars I've seen.
Good Luck getting the headset squared away. You using WinXP?
I once played around with a USB headset that came with my son's PS2 game SOCOM, and WinXP recognized it and it worked with out installing anything.
-
i use 98.......hey shaden thanks for trying i cant figure it out i had tried that persono thing and it tries to tell me that my device is not hooked up, that i should unplug then plug it back in, i tried everything, i give looks like il be unable to play till i get an istallation cd or something
-
been looking for drivers and trying to get any type of sound at all to work since 8am now and last night i looked for about 3 hours....... all i need is a driver or something i think it is just saying no sound device hooked up:( now im at the point of giving up im so aggrevated :mad:
-
Does it work without headphones - using just your speakers?
How about a non-USB headset can you try on of those?
-
ok guys i finally found a driver, but not one for my headset so i will use my speakers but one problem..... i get them installed they work with the "cd player" try to play a cd in media player and tells me i have no hardware. i try to load up aces high and it acts like it loads and then closes right away. so i run dxdiag and yep some kind of error but not sure how to fix it any help would be nice im desperate and aggrevated. here is a screen shot of the error
(http://img84.exs.cx/img84/738/k0g1.jpg)
this is also something that comes up
(http://img84.exs.cx/img84/7748/v4rg.jpg)
-
(http://img82.exs.cx/img82/3093/m0g1.jpg)
it wants to install a PCI System Management bus everytime i restart my computer but not sure where to get the drivers, any ideas, it also tries to install a unknown device everytime but i dont know what the hell it is trying to install
-
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE......someone on here knows something about this im desperate
-
i have come to conclusions something is wrong with sound somehow but it still works and this is why aces high exits out right away :(
(http://img123.exs.cx/img123/5561/a5t1.jpg)
(http://img123.exs.cx/img123/318/x9b1.jpg)
-
Zoldamite does yours have the inline Planetronics DSP Digital processing device. Basically it's about 6 inches or so long and a rectangle with rounded off edges. It's dark gray with a silver looking window with the DSP digital processing written on it. If so I've got the disk here. I'd have to see how big the driver files are for it and I can shoot it to ya via email. Just let me know. Here's a picture of the one I have.
Drivers Page (http://www.plantronics.com/north_america/en_US/support/downloads.jhtml)
(http://www.onpoi.net/ah/pics/users/556_1102222283_planetronicsheadset.jpg)
-
that would be great. i have a black one though.... but it is DSP also and mine has a hookup where you can hook it the normal sound way like you would speakers or through USB like this one but i would be glad to try the driver you have if it worked that would be great. here is the picture of mine
(http://www.plantronics.com/north_america/en_US/productSearch/prod440018?prodfind=true) but i will try anything i am over 12 hours now on looking for the drivers or even trying to get onto AH using my normal speakers which have some kind of error as shown in the pics above (eyes burning, head hurting, angry, i could go on)
-
my email is starrsurfboards@gmail.com
-
I found this site with Crystal WDM Audio drivers for windows XP. Might help uninstalling your old ones and installing these. Let me know if it helps. I'll get that disk and send you the drivers for the DSP.
-
thanks but would those drives work since i am running 98? the crystal that is
-
Do know the exact model of Crystal Audios sound card your using? Or is it an onboard setup? You can normally find a product number on the board itself.
-
The number you'll be looking for should start with CS and then a 4 digit number. Possibly beginning with 42XX. XX being the upgraded version number. If it's onboard then you'll need to look for the onboard sound chip. It should also have a model number printed on it. If your using a notebook or E machine it'd help in finding what you need. I've got a site with about 200 different drivers for Windows 98 Crystal Semiconductor drivers.
This would help even more to find what you need. If it's a major company built computer (ie: Gateway, Dell, ect...) then let me know the model of the computer. If it's not and it's a home built then I'm gonna need 2, possibly three things. The motherboards company and model number. This is normally stamped in fairly large letters/numbers on the board. If it's an onboard audio which I don't think it is if it's asking to install a PCI Management bus driver. I'm going to need the model number stamped on the onboard audio chip. If it's a PCI then I'll need the number stamped on that board, possibly starting with CS. If you can find the number on the PCI board then that will make it much easier to find your driver. If you can get me atleast one of these three things I should be able to get you the correct drivers.
I don't want to find any driver and have you try it. These items that I've stated above would help me out tremendously with getting you the proper driver files. Just shoot me an email or post here with the info you can find and I'll do what I can to help you out. I know how frustrating it is to not have the drivers you need. I've been there before and practically ripped my hair out trying to find the right files.
-
I noticed your hardware sound acceleration is set to FULL - have you tried backing off the hardware acceleration?
-
Originally posted by oboe
I noticed your hardware sound acceleration is set to FULL - have you tried backing off the hardware acceleration?
doesnt work anyways but i will bump it to about 75 or 50 when i get AH up and runnning
also note: the screenshots above are all with my speakers hooked up not the plantronics.
-
Originally posted by Cobra412
The number you'll be looking for should start with CS and then a 4 digit number. Possibly beginning with 42XX. XX being the upgraded version number. If it's onboard then you'll need to look for the onboard sound chip. It should also have a model number printed on it. If your using a notebook or E machine it'd help in finding what you need. I've got a site with about 200 different drivers for Windows 98 Crystal Semiconductor drivers.
This would help even more to find what you need. If it's a major company built computer (ie: Gateway, Dell, ect...) then let me know the model of the computer. If it's not and it's a home built then I'm gonna need 2, possibly three things. The motherboards company and model number. This is normally stamped in fairly large letters/numbers on the board. If it's an onboard audio which I don't think it is if it's asking to install a PCI Management bus driver. I'm going to need the model number stamped on the onboard audio chip. If it's a PCI then I'll need the number stamped on that board, possibly starting with CS. If you can find the number on the PCI board then that will make it much easier to find your driver. If you can get me atleast one of these three things I should be able to get you the correct drivers.
I don't want to find any driver and have you try it. These items that I've stated above would help me out tremendously with getting you the proper driver files. Just shoot me an email or post here with the info you can find and I'll do what I can to help you out. I know how frustrating it is to not have the drivers you need. I've been there before and practically ripped my hair out trying to find the right files.
thanks for your help im about to shut this computer down and look for that number now, it is a gateway, not sure which model cause i bought it used at some computer shop (ripped off IMO) i usually refer to it as the POS model when people ask me but im not in the joking mood . not sure what timezone your in but if eastern i appreciate the help cause this means you were up helping me at like 1am this morning when you could have been doing other things, but either way i appreciate it. be back in a min with info hopefully
-
ok Cobra this might be it but not sure
On the little intel chip (black square on mother board) it reads..
Intel 810
FW82810E there were more numbers dont think you need
there was a black chip reading SC which maybe means sound card lol?
it reads SC1185ACSW
0034
P00t55
also the only PCI card i have is the video card
:::EDIT::: ok so i go to this http://support.intel.com/design/software/drivers/platform/810.htm?iid=ipp_810echpst+prod_du& and only drivers i see are video
-
ok i went to gateway it noticed i didnt have the speakers installed with "right drive" so i download the one they give me, come to find out it is the same one and it still says not installed, yet the speakers work on sound when it boots up, websites , the cd player but not media player....................any one know what is wrong with DirectX?
-
Okay that SC1185ACSW number is a Programmable Synchronous DC/DC Converter made by Semtech so that's not what we are looking for. The Intel 810 is just the chipset of the board itself. Did you by chance see any numbers printed near the PCI and ISA slots. It may be printed between one of those slots or directly above or below the slots. This will be the motherboard number itself. Better yet if you had a camera that you could take a picture of the motherboad it'd be great then I can search the board for the numbers I need.
After searching forever for a fix I found a forum with a similiar problem. Is your computer a 667mhz gateway? One thing to try is reinstalling Direct X.
I'm still researching this.
=edit=
Try this file. It's fairly large though. 23 meg. It's a Win98 Crystal Audio setup file. I downloaded it and scanned it for viruses.
Crystal Audio Setup (http://207.150.192.12/temp/jetway0c/downloads/driver/cs4299_w98_v4026.zip)
-
thanks downloading now........i will see if i can open my new digital camera and take a picture (suppose to wait until christmas to open but i will see) the one i have now is a 1.2mp and if you move a hair image is blurr.....il be back with results in a min
-
forgot.........my comp is a 800mhz.. i have Direct X 9 but i could try to reinstall, how would i delete it fully for a reinstall?
-
error
(http://img78.exs.cx/img78/33/s4pcrystalerror.jpg)
-
hmmm. Did you uninstall your old audio drivers before installing these?
Problem with direct x is you can't uninstall it and reinstall as far as I know. For direct x you have to just reload over the top.
-
Can you try this for me.
When you turn on a computer that contains an Intel-supported desktop boards, you will see the BIOS identification string near the top left corner of the screen. If your computer displays the Intel® logo screen during system boot, you can bypass this screen by pressing the Esc key. This allows the display of the BIOS code.
Intel BIOS for Desktop Boards
Recent Intel Desktop Boards use Intel/AMI BIOS patterns that looks like this:
MV85010A.86A.0011.P05
or
EV91510A.86A.0209
The characters BEFORE the first period indicate what desktop board you have. In the examples above, the "MV85010A" identifies the Intel® Desktop Board D850MV and the "EV91510A" identifies the Intel® Desktop Board D915GEV.
I think your running a version of the 810E board and this info would confirm that. Here's another driver site for that contains that series of board in it. It has every driver needed for the 810 and 810E motherboards. 810/810E Motherboard Drivers (http://www.silverstar.com.hk/driver/driver_in.htm)
-
Since I dont use the equipment you have, I dont know if your headset is a separate "sound card" in itself, or if it depends on the one recognized by Windows to function. I'm assuming from the issues you had before with this setup that it is a standalone sound device.
Your "problem" is, in all probability, a combination of problems. First, if this is a standalone sound device it shoud be listed in the hardware manager once you have drivers loaded. If its not, and it doesnt recognize your device, or doesnt recognize it during driver installation, there might be a problem with your USB port. Do you have any other USB devices? If so, are they working properly? If they are, try unplugging them and plug your headphones into that jack, see if you can install the drivers now. Plugging the headphones into the output jacks from the computer wont do a darn thing if your onboard sound chip isnt functional.
As for that, Crystal Sound Fusion manufactures millions of onboard sound chips for installation on motherboards of every type imaginable. And they all have one thing in common. They all sux. They are as common as dirt, and work about as well. They are notoriously buggy and incompatible with a double-handful of games I can mention, and probably more I dont know about. Add to that the fact that you have an older model chip, running under Windows 98. Dx 9.0 wont be compatible with any of your drivers, as Microsoft stopped supporting Win98 a year ago (this is not a knock on Win98, I still like it better than XP, but as time goes on it is going to be harder and harder to find drivers for stuff). Taking all of these into account, you probably wont find a truly updated driver for your model of Crystal soundchip. The originals should be on the restore CD you got from Gateway with the computer. You can probably get an update for those, but it still wont be any later (more than likely) than mid-03.
My reccommendation to you is to go into your BIOS setup and disable the onboard sound. Yours might be a jumper on the motherboard even. Then you can concentrate on getting your headset to work without worrying about the onboard sound interfering (this is still assuming your headphones operate independantly of need for a sound card). Then if you decide you want exterior speakers later, you can buy a soundcard and add it on.
-
thanks for help again guys......i have considered XP but with my 256mb of ram i didnt think it would run that great, i have a 10gig HD and just put in another 10gig so that comes to 20. what are your thoughts....or better yet would win xp pro work ok? i know when i upgraded to win ME Aces High was unplayable but i have read reviews on WIN ME and most were not that great. it just seemed to have errors but that might have been me and it just ran games super slow. if you guys think winxp would run ok i may try that
::EDIT:: afrika, i have exterior speakers right now and these are the ones that came with computer they worked great actually (7 years old now) a 2.1 set of bostons.........but they just arent woking now that im only running 98, i ran 98se for a while before slicking then i got tired of it asking me for a win98se disk when i didnt have it so it couldnt finish installing things so i broke down and went to this. :(
-
Zoldamite, theres a good reason Microsoft put out the 98SE update. The original Windows 98 had some serious flaws. If that is all you have, I'd seriously consider upgrading to XP if I were you. It would definitely solve your driver problems (IMO). I'd still reccommend a different sound card, I stand by my statement that Crystal soundchips have compatibility issues with alot of games. But if you are going to use the headset heavily, maybe you wont need to.
256 MB of RAM is enough to run Windows XP. Things might get slow, and your AHII is surely suffering with only that much RAM, no matter what your Operating System is. What type of RAM do you use? The "speed" rating I mean. Is it DDR RAM, or are you using older PC133 RAM? Second question, do you have any open slots for RAM? I may have some extra, I'll have to look. I think I have 256MB of PC2100 DDR RAM I'm not using, and I know I have 256MB of PC133 I wont use.
If you really want to stay with Windows 98, I have a 98SE CD.
SA2
-
my ram is about 5 years old or older, it is not ddr ram and i only have 2 slots both are taken with dinky 128mb.i would love to have win SE but i dont know anywhere i could download it, bearshare has it but i am trying to avoid downloading that again after i slicked, sister likes to download songs 20 at a time and never delete them, any other places i could get a good download for it no errors or viruses in it. and at christmas time i am getting new comp so i will not have these problems hopefully, and will maybe be running winxp pro might get it from sisters boyfriends friend.. and i believe you on the crappy crystal audio statement
in AH i sometimes get around 30fr but thats when i first got the computer used and no bearshare or any other problems over the summer.....but i would love to get win98se download from somewhere but just dont know where, and if i save the files to a folder then burn to a cd i will have the "WIN98SE" disk that it ask for when you install new things right?
-
Zoldamite, email me your physical address and I'll mail you the CD. My email is
exileshiden@aol.com
-
site for drivers, any and all drivers for anything:
http://www.driverguide.com
-
Why don't u try getting a SB live 5.1 for like 20 bucks and solve all your problems. U will greatly improve game performance and sound quality. I have a 815 chipset computer here I gave to my son with a p3 1ghz, 512 meg 133 cas 2 ram, geforce 2 GTS 32meg, 40 gig WD 7200rpm HD, SB Audigy soundcard, 52x cdrom, and running XP Pro. With that computer he plays AHII on it and actually gets 50 fps with it. Now I do have it set up as 800x600 res but still dam good for a GF2 GTS vid, lol.
Now with the 810 chipset that U have, if U upgrade your ram, U probably can only use pc100 and up to 512 megs ram (Limits of the chipset).
-
I think his biggest problem right now is that (I think) he has a partial install of Win98SE, and he used a 1st ed. Win98 CD to finish the install (i.e. the drivers are all Win98 instead of 98SE). Either that or he is just running 1st edition Win98, I couldnt make out which. Either way, 1st ed. 98 is going to give him problems. Then add on the buggy 98 drivers for the Crystal Audio setup, and the performance hit he's going to take if he gets that headset working .................. all that combined with only 256 MB of RAM (and slow PC100/133 RAM at that) of rather venerable age, considering, and he has alot of problems to solve and balance.
-
Originally posted by StarOfAfrica2
Zoldamite, email me your physical address and I'll mail you the CD. My email is
exileshiden@aol.com
no way would you really do that? i could send you some money for shipping if you want. thats great