I have an older SBLIVE soundcard and some Boston Acoustic Speakers (4 with a sub) that came with a Gateway PC I purchased a few years ago. When I built my current PC last year, I used the same old card and speakers.

When I play GUN, after ten or twenty minutes (varies), A repetitive LOUD static noise comes out of the front two speakers. You can barely here the game music, because the static is overwhelming. The static will stop if I close the game and then start it back up. Also, this is the only game/application that I've ever heard the static in...never with Mediaplayer, Doom 3, etc!

What could it be? Is it the game?

Thanks.

I had the same static problem in several newer games (GUN, FEAR, DOOM3...) until I gave the SBLive away to a friend and got me the Live24bit.

What is strange is that my friend who got the card have no problems whatsoever with these games; I think it might be an incompatibility with my mobo chipset (nforce).

Thanks. Maybe it's time to upgrade...

What to get, what to get...

Do you think the onboard audio is better than my old sound card?

I have an intel 915GEV board.