have major problem with rub 1.43

[melinjkpg]

i got serius soundproblem with rub 1.43 . why i dont know. i have installed the newst driver to my soundblaster and still the game starts to freeze a coulpe of minuts in the game and the sound sounds like you have picked up the phone and hear modemsounds. But i not 100% sure it is rub 1.43 but everything started with mod. and the strange is that this problem is even if i unstall the mod with the mod eneblar. this is the only mod i use. Did go back to rub 1.42 and the problem still is there. The game freeze and the computer reboot after a while....and please..dont tell me that my soundcard is broken...=) i dont realy whant to hear that, short of mony right now.

P4 3.6 HT
Soundblaster audigy 2 ZS platinum
Geforce 6800 GT
2 gig ram
XP home edition

[The Avon Lady]

HAve you tried lowering you audio adapter's HARDWARE ACCELERATION setting a notch or 2?

[melinjkpg]

hmm...no..shall try that...thanks!

[glenno]

Suggestions
Go into bios and disable onboard sound.
Type dxdiag and test sound.

[Mover]

Do a search for "Squeal of Death" + "Audigy"

Got the same Problem, only with the Audigycard. Bought another Card and the squeal wass gone, but the crashs keeped coming in, although not so much. Found faulty configured RAMs in the System, corrected that and the crashs got somwhat seldom, but happened although here and there. Bought a new Powersupply = no more Crashes.

Good luck.

[The Avon Lady]

Do a search for "Squeal of Death" + "Audigy"
The sub nets sound problem is not what he's posting about.

BTW, that problem occurs with plenty of audio adapters, from Creative and other manufacturers.

[Mover]

I'm not talking about them.

The Squeal of Death is a known problem of the Audigy series with some PC-Configs. The sympthoms include frequent freezes under certain circumstances, while the speakers are emitting a horrible squeal/beeping/hissing sound (somewhat resembling the sound of a modem).. hence the name "squeal of death". I'm wearing Headpohnes and this sudden squeal knocked me often right out of my chair in tense sh3 situations, so belive me it's quite a real problem. :D

Maybe I should have gotten clearer... with the "do a search for"-phrase I meant "google for it". :)

[The Avon Lady]

That's a new one.

I'm familiar with crackling sound bugs from older creative cards. Is that what you're referring to? :-?

[Mover]

No, the audigys really, really crashing the system with a hissingsound right out of hell. There was some fuss about it, i think maybe about 2 years ago with the audigy 1. The problem was that the whole Thing was very elusive. Some Computers crashed only in certain games, some Computers crashed only with Winamp and not with Windows Media player... and some Computer didn't crash at all, some other all the time.

Creative did search for a solution and said (naturally) it was the fault of other Hardware in all tested systems... now that the Problems did reoccur in the newer audigy series (audigy 2 ZS etc.), they are denying that it has even existed. I did reasearch a lot about this problem and think it's a problem with certain hardwarecomponents and something fishy that the audigys are doing with the pci-bus of the system, probably even a design error in the whole audigy line, wich is only occuring with hardware that isn't tolerating Audigys Bus-hogging tendencies.

Although physically changing the PCI-Port of my audigy did solve the problem for me in the end, of course only after I've shelled out about 70 € for another card that did sound horrible in games. :damn:

I fear you're down for a long road of pain, melinjkpg.

[The Avon Lady]

I've also heard that sometimes moving cards to different slots resolves the problem.

PCI bus problems were apparent way back when SB Lives came out.

And my daughter's brand new Creative MuVo MP3 player just went on the blink. They're askin' for it! :hulk:

[Mover]

Absolute monopolys aren't a good thing. Not in the case of Microsoft and certanly not in the case of Creative, especially in the field of Soundcards. I've made the experience with creative that they aren't caring about their customers or the quality of their products at all and if a company is becoming dangerous to them, they simply buy it.

Now I'm so much posting about that here, I can give some advice to melinjkpg too:

1. look that the audigy is not getting some of the higher IRQs ( IRQ > 15) that Windows XP is using. It doesn't seem to like that. Also, look that the Audigy isn't sharing an IRQ with another card. This does not seem to work very good with the Audigys and certain Systems.
2. Look that your Audigy doesn't have another card as Neighbour in it's PCI-Slot, especially not the Graphicard. When in doubt, try shuffling around the cards. When there is not enough room for that, remove all cards execpt graphiccard&audigy and see if the problem does still occour, if not try adding the cards one by one and see who is making the problems. Then try exchanging cards.
3. Try Setting PCI Latency in your BIOS to 64 or 98.
4. Please excuse my shaky english. It isn't my native language and I'm tired. ;)

Only look after these things when the standard procedures (reinstalling drivers etc.) don't help.