Recommend A Win2K SoundCard.

[Duty]

I too have the MX300 and it has been working fine in w2k from the start. The native drivers work fine. Check to see if the via drivers are getting in the way. I'm not using a via MB so that is my first thought. Running newest drivers for vid card as well.

Hope this helps some.


Jeff

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ABIT BP6 - 2 x Celeron 500 - 256MB Ram - MX300 - 3Com 509c - Creative PC DVD 6x - G400 DH - DSL (True Love Here) - Win98 se - Win 2000 pro

[Easty]

Tp, Your suggestion worked great.. I retro installed the 5.14 drivers.. (apologise for questioning you previous driver statement..The 5.04 was the only one listed on matroxusers site..) And I also changed my card to the number 2 PCI slot.. I played Counterstrike last night for about 2 hours with no problems.. Tonight I have had the sound drop instantly on the 3dmark 2001 Demo.. I'll try getting rid of the Via drivers.. C if that makes a difference.. The only other thing I can see between our setup is that I use win2k sp2..

Duty Mate, Looking around various forums I think the problem is mainly Via chipset MBs.. Thanks for the info anyway!!

[Liquid Snake]

One question. Does A3D 2.0 work properly and stable? With the latest drivers I had at the time, HL crashed out after a minute or so whenever I enabled A3D. If A3D works great and all is stable, I may very well chuck this SBLive! Platinum 5.1

[Easty]

I'll just have a quick play.. give me a min..
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It's already enabled.. Do you mean installing further A3d Drivers???..If so tell me which And I'll try it out!!

TP, How about your Bios Version..I'm using 1007

Regards,

East!



[This message has been edited by Easty (edited 20 March 2001).]

[TP]

Might be an AMD thing since I'm runnning PIII

Dunno, I'm all out of ideas



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[Liquid Snake]

I just wanted to know if A3D was stable in Half-Life. It always crashed on my machine.

[TP]

A3D2 was stable the last time I played HL/TFC (over a year ago

Dunno about today though.

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[Easty]

To Thankfully Conclude this thread some top chap has come up with a 100% fix.. Try this link below!!


http://network54.com/Hide/Forum/thre...geid=987280319

All the Best

Brian!

[Liquid Snake]

Hmm...But does A3D work properly though? If so, I can put away my SBLive!

[HomeBrewer]

Recommend you try this site. It workd well on my wifes machine, although she is not into gaming. For straight windows I have had no problems.

http://www.vortexofsound.com/

Good Luck.

[Easty]

A3D Seems to work great.. Optical out also.. The only thing.. I carn't get aft speakers running! Yeah.. Vortex of sound is where I read the fix.. Link above..!

[Liquid Snake]

I already know of Vortex of Sound. A3D works indeed, but it still locks up. It just takes a lot longer (like an hour or more). It used to lock up after 10 seconds. I can't really use it until it's 100% stable, so the SBLive! is back in

[Easty]

I was playing CS last Night for several hours.. No problems.. I'm using the latest G400 MAx drivers.. Win2k service pack 2.. DirectX 8.. Via 4-1 4.29..

Don't think CS has ever run so smooth.. And I get pings Avg 40 points better in NT compared with Winme! I'll have a check through my games see wherer a3d is used and how it runs when enabled..!

Regards,

Brian