Well, I have a few glitches that need a fixing.
1: I have the original SB Live! Sound Card (released in like 98), u know the one with a daughterboard and gold plated connectors. Please do not confuse this with a SB Live! Value!
After multiple emails to the whizzbang crack technical team of morons at Creative, I still haven't got a fix for these things.
And thats when I actually get a reply..
--- Problemo's
a) Whenever I start up windows, even though I have saved the presets, I can only hear sound from the two front speakers of my FPS2000 Digital Speakers (I am using the DIN, not the L/R Analogue plugs, but either way the same thing happens)
If I go into the speaker/mixer settings, it shows that my speakers are actually on 4-speaker mode, which is what I saved it as, but as I said, I can only hear the two front speakers.
If I select 4-speaker mode again in the program, it just makes a thud sound in the left rear speaker, and nothing changes (still on 2 front speakers) the way to fix it is to select 2-speaker mode, and then select 4-speaker mode again and whalla! It works.
Does anyone know why this happens and how to fix it?
*This is a re-occurring problem, happens virtually every time I restart windows (I dont have any proggys affecting it's speaker mode)
b) I have the drivers from the Creative Website. The only set that is available. My soundcard is only being detected and installing as a SB Live! Value! (WDM) Why is this considering it's a fully-fledged SB Live??? I have no idea why it's so difficult for these companies to make drivers for their products. WinXP and Win2K has been a nightmare with everything, but 98SE was perfect, never had a problem.
c) Possibly linked to the problem above it the fact that the gameport on the soundcard is not being detected, and will not install. So basically I can't use my joystick and haven't been able to since Windows 98SE, I really wanna play BF1942 with a Joystick...
2: Battlefield
--- Problemo's
a) Does anyone else get severe frame skipping in this game?
I know that 256mb of Ram is like minimum, 512 is still barely enough (fixes that chokey damn menu).
I read in other posts that is you have hardware acceleration on you soundcard enabled this may be a problem, but the thing is I don't. I have the bare essentials on to play the game.
Has anyone come up with answers?
b) Clipping distances...
I see in game screenshots of this game and the amount of distance clipping is minimal. Basically the fog of war hides it.
I am running the game on 1024x768@16bpp and even if a building or object is only a short distance away, I get bad graphical clipping.
However I have the clipping distance set t0 100%???
Anywon else got problems like this?
Any help will be much appreciated, thanks for looking.
1: I have the original SB Live! Sound Card (released in like 98), u know the one with a daughterboard and gold plated connectors. Please do not confuse this with a SB Live! Value!
After multiple emails to the whizzbang crack technical team of morons at Creative, I still haven't got a fix for these things.
And thats when I actually get a reply..
--- Problemo's
a) Whenever I start up windows, even though I have saved the presets, I can only hear sound from the two front speakers of my FPS2000 Digital Speakers (I am using the DIN, not the L/R Analogue plugs, but either way the same thing happens)
If I go into the speaker/mixer settings, it shows that my speakers are actually on 4-speaker mode, which is what I saved it as, but as I said, I can only hear the two front speakers.
If I select 4-speaker mode again in the program, it just makes a thud sound in the left rear speaker, and nothing changes (still on 2 front speakers) the way to fix it is to select 2-speaker mode, and then select 4-speaker mode again and whalla! It works.
Does anyone know why this happens and how to fix it?
*This is a re-occurring problem, happens virtually every time I restart windows (I dont have any proggys affecting it's speaker mode)
b) I have the drivers from the Creative Website. The only set that is available. My soundcard is only being detected and installing as a SB Live! Value! (WDM) Why is this considering it's a fully-fledged SB Live??? I have no idea why it's so difficult for these companies to make drivers for their products. WinXP and Win2K has been a nightmare with everything, but 98SE was perfect, never had a problem.
c) Possibly linked to the problem above it the fact that the gameport on the soundcard is not being detected, and will not install. So basically I can't use my joystick and haven't been able to since Windows 98SE, I really wanna play BF1942 with a Joystick...
2: Battlefield
--- Problemo's
a) Does anyone else get severe frame skipping in this game?
I know that 256mb of Ram is like minimum, 512 is still barely enough (fixes that chokey damn menu).
I read in other posts that is you have hardware acceleration on you soundcard enabled this may be a problem, but the thing is I don't. I have the bare essentials on to play the game.
Has anyone come up with answers?
b) Clipping distances...
I see in game screenshots of this game and the amount of distance clipping is minimal. Basically the fog of war hides it.
I am running the game on 1024x768@16bpp and even if a building or object is only a short distance away, I get bad graphical clipping.
However I have the clipping distance set t0 100%???
Anywon else got problems like this?
Any help will be much appreciated, thanks for looking.
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