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Mistaph leBaal
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Posted - 2003.07.12 14:04:00 -
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Sound cards and their drivers are a common problem. One workaround that seems to work for pretty much any sound-related problem is to go to your sound properties and turn the "hardware acceleration" slider down to minimum. This makes the Windows/DirectX system do everything in software and treats the sound card as just a really dumb loudspeaker. Which is almost guaranteed to work, even if it's possibly a bit slower than ideal.
This slider is in various places on different OSes - you may need to hunt around for it. On WinXP its at: Control Panel/Sounds and Audio Devices/Voice(tab)/Advanced/Performance(tab). It's in a similar sort of place on Win2k and Win9x, but I forget exactly where.
You will also lose a lot of the fancy 3D sound effects - basic stereo only. But that's better than crashing.
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Zersin
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Posted - 2003.07.12 20:41:00 -
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Ive had this problem sense I brought the game home It wasn't just combat I used to be only able to play for like 20 min before a reboot. Thought it was a video card worked with customer support to get it fixed. Updated video card,mother board and sound drivers. I also have an onboard soundcard but its a nividia nForce. After re-installed the sound driver it did work for like 2 hours then rebooted again so I gave up and just keep sound off in prefs.
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Trillian Dent
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Posted - 2003.07.12 23:32:00 -
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Thx Mistaph leBaal. (Merci beaucoup) I think you got it right.
It works, I lost the sound of the projectiles fo 250mm and 280mm, but it doesn't crash anymore and I still have the "normal" standard sounds. I tested it in all postion and I have now the positon of the slider to standard acceleration to use only standard DirectSound acceleration features.
So I can play at least with sound. Cheers for that workaround.
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Lacota
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Posted - 2003.07.13 08:16:00 -
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the only reboot while in game for me are caused by memory dumps i play on my lap top cause i travel alot this does not happened any other time but in a game and most times obly when im warping..
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Rust
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Posted - 2003.07.13 12:04:00 -
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So just how do you find the updated driver?
I have a Gigabyte K7 Triton 400, and have spent the last hour searching the net. I have found endless sound drivers supposedly for the on board advanced ac97 - indeed on the gigabyte site there are about 12 or more, ranging from 3.6MB -16MB, from 4 or 5 different developers, none being the one that came with the mb disc!
How do I choose, and does it matter what the make of driver I use?
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NoS Dingo
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Posted - 2003.07.14 11:12:00 -
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Happened to me 3 times yesterday and only since the last patch. I have C-Media sound which also happens to be built in to the motherboard.
I set audio to 0 and all is well except no sounds ofc which is a shame.
But at least I can come back to a ship with more than 15% shields left.
It is a CM8738/C3DX
XP says it has the most up to date drivers.
Hope this helps.
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Prince Vegeta
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Posted - 2003.07.14 15:57:00 -
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Im Glad I wasnt alone on this! it happens all the time for me, but mainly when drones are invovled and when I win.
Drones out, I kill enemy my comp reboots
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Blood Hawk
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Posted - 2003.07.14 17:14:00 -
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I didn't realise that this was a known probelm as it's only happened to me a couple of times... however, the last time I was fighting in my moa and when I managed to get back online (it took forever to login :@) my moa had been destroyed!!!
I'm still waiting for a reply to my petition... as surley it's not fair if I lose a ship because of the game crashing with what turns out to be a known problem!
I too had a 250mm canon installed on my ship (come to think of it my client only seems to crash when I'm using it!) and I have an integrated AC97 soundcard on my motherboard, tho it is (or at least should be) disabled via BIOS... I use a soundblaster Audigy card normally!
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Shana Gulthar
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Posted - 2003.07.22 17:50:00 -
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Hmmm... I got an ASUS motherboard with onboard sound, which is turned off. My soundcard is a Trust 514DX 5.1 Sound Expert Optical, top of the line according to Trust.
I still have the crashes, but after closer examination, is seems that the drivers downloaded from the Trust website is a set of C-Media drivers.
I guess this is more a problem between Eve and C-Media drivers than onboard sound vs. soundcards (most onboard sound are C-Media driven, so I guess that's why the fault seems like a C-Media one). Gonna try the Realtek drivers now, hopefully they work (the Trust ones doesn't).
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Mistaph leBaal
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Posted - 2003.07.23 04:55:00 -
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Just a bump for my post above - it works pretty reliably and you don't have to go hunting for (IMHO mythical) stable drivers for obscure chipsets. This is true for other games as well as EVE - it's not something wierd that CCP have done. In my technical opinion based on many years of experience writing games on the PC: soundcard drivers are teh suk. :-(
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