Hi guys, Okay, I'll do my bit to wind up the ongoing PC soundcard setup thread. I've sorta solved the problem I had with stuttering in a certain Win98 app when it was sending raw audio data to the SB Live Player 1024 card. It had (as someone correctly stated) nothing to do with the SB16 emu stuff, that worked a treat after all playing Doom as I think I mentioned. The AGP Video Card (Creative Savage4) was also innocent, but as all I was running was Win98 in 1024x768x16bit at 85Hz, the k6-3/400 and videocard along a 2x AGP bus should have easily coped. It was the damn soundcard drivers all along as I originally suspected. There are two types of Win 9x sound driver :- those with a loaded gun, and those who dig [apologies to Clint Eastwood] :-) More accurately "True DirectX Drivers" and "MME Drivers". Using a synth prog, the DirectX driver would play fine without any buffer under- runs at 50mS whilst the MME driver needed at least 150mS. There must be a utility out there which can measure this automatically and report on the driver type but my prog with stutter problems will only use the MME Driver (previously, it used a true DirectX SB16 one). The only driver I could use was the MME one under "Control Panel -> Multimedia -> Audio" in the playback bit-- "SB Live! Wave Out [E800]". The DirectX driver was only listed in the synth progs driver options, as "DirectSound (SB Live! Wave Out [E800])" and was the far superior one. Either way, an option on the prog which caused the stuttering, along with other tweaks appears to have cured it-- giving it increased priority, and favoring smooth performance. Oh and having a CPU utilisation of only about 40% may have helped. Well thats all I have to say on this topic-- for now, and hopefully for many weeks as I dislike malfunctioning progs as much as most of you peeps dislike off-topic discussion, though arguably a clean audio output is *very* on-topic, yeah? Cheers, PrinceGaz -- "if it harms none, do what you will" Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Website: http://website.lineone.net/~princegaz/ ICQ: 36892193 ----------------------------------------------------------------- To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
