question about sound card...

[parlee]

i recently upgraded my computer... a mini upgrade to hold me till graduation.. but anyways, its an amd 3700+ chaintech mobo ati x700pro agp... 1 gb memory, ive been getting into CSS lately again and i find that everytime i double zoom and then quick switch my computer freezes for literally 30 seconds... i look in my console and it says it cant find a model, never tampered with my models... but it also does this when the bomb goes off too.. i run at max settings 0aa 0af at 1024... i think this may be a sound issue because all my other stuff should be able to run this fine... i average about 100fps... dips as low as 45 though... im hoping that its the crappy onboard chaintech sound... does anyone else agree?... some help would be sweet

 

[Clob]

I dont play CS, so I would suggest that you visit a CS board so they can help you.

As for the soundcard, Make sure that you have all drivers updated for you motherboard, graphics, and other things like that.

 

[Vascular]

Try disabling the onboard sound in the bios.
Run the game and see if it still happens.
Have you tried reducing the sound quality in the CSS options?

 

[parlee]

in a little ill turn off sound in bios... as for the lowering quality yes i have... but at the same time i lowered the quality i had music playing so it was kinda a trade off... i really cant think of anything else it could be though, if it isnt sound then that means one of my new components is crap..