franklogus
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Hi all!
I am having a strange problem with the sound card of my back-up PC, and I need some technical help
The sound card of my PC is a Creative Sound Blaster Live! Value 1024 (that I bought in the end of 2001). So, it’s not a new device…
Anyways, I never had any trouble with it… Recently, I am having an intermittent sound when I play some (few) games, as F1 2002 and F1 Challenge (and its respective mods). ALWAYS, when I begin some race, the sound begins to fail, in an intermittent way, for a short time (from 10 seconds to 40 seconds), and, after this, no more any problem with the sound, until the end of the respective race … The worst is that, while the sound is failing, the FPS decreases hardly, what is really odd!!… When I use the on-board sound of my MoBo, there is not any problem… Unfortunately, the quality of the on-board sound card is very worse than of my Creative card; that’s because I really would like to use the better device, if possible…
I can’t observe this kind of problem in any other racing game that I have (with all them, the sound works great, all time)…
As I have not changed any setting of these 2 specific games (this is a very recent issue), and the sound works normally with all others games, I really can’t believe that there is a hardware damage… In order to try to solve this weird problem, I have already re-installed it respective driver, but no success…
I am not an expert on these matters (far from this); so, I would like some opinions about what can be happening…
Any information / hint will be very appreciated!
Thanks in advance for any help !
As an information, my basic Back-up PC spec is:
- Processor: P4 2.8 533 MHz
- MoBo: Asus P4S800D
- RAM: 1.024 MB DDR 333 (Kingston Value Ram) - 04 sticks of 256 MB each one.
- Sound Card: Creative Sound Blaster Live! Value (WDM)
- Video Card: Gigabyte Radeon 9600 XT
- 02 HDDs: 01 Maxtor 120 GB, 7200 rpm, ATA-133 + 01 Seagate 40 GB, 7200 rpm, ATA-100
- OS: Win XP PRO SP1
I am having a strange problem with the sound card of my back-up PC, and I need some technical help
The sound card of my PC is a Creative Sound Blaster Live! Value 1024 (that I bought in the end of 2001). So, it’s not a new device…
Anyways, I never had any trouble with it… Recently, I am having an intermittent sound when I play some (few) games, as F1 2002 and F1 Challenge (and its respective mods). ALWAYS, when I begin some race, the sound begins to fail, in an intermittent way, for a short time (from 10 seconds to 40 seconds), and, after this, no more any problem with the sound, until the end of the respective race … The worst is that, while the sound is failing, the FPS decreases hardly, what is really odd!!… When I use the on-board sound of my MoBo, there is not any problem… Unfortunately, the quality of the on-board sound card is very worse than of my Creative card; that’s because I really would like to use the better device, if possible…
I can’t observe this kind of problem in any other racing game that I have (with all them, the sound works great, all time)…
As I have not changed any setting of these 2 specific games (this is a very recent issue), and the sound works normally with all others games, I really can’t believe that there is a hardware damage… In order to try to solve this weird problem, I have already re-installed it respective driver, but no success…
I am not an expert on these matters (far from this); so, I would like some opinions about what can be happening…
Any information / hint will be very appreciated!
Thanks in advance for any help !
As an information, my basic Back-up PC spec is:
- Processor: P4 2.8 533 MHz
- MoBo: Asus P4S800D
- RAM: 1.024 MB DDR 333 (Kingston Value Ram) - 04 sticks of 256 MB each one.
- Sound Card: Creative Sound Blaster Live! Value (WDM)
- Video Card: Gigabyte Radeon 9600 XT
- 02 HDDs: 01 Maxtor 120 GB, 7200 rpm, ATA-133 + 01 Seagate 40 GB, 7200 rpm, ATA-100
- OS: Win XP PRO SP1