euankirkhope

Still, there's a long way to go. Need to give lots of positve encouragement to the developers.

Doesn't the potential 1'000'000 fps with extreme blurryness, along with perfectly rendended 2D sprites at 2000,1400 res just turn you on???? A bit of EMBM, dynamic lighting, smoke, fog, and detail maps, will do it no bad. (maybe also getting the midi to go via my Yamaha MU100r would be good too! If that works, a few quick hacks at the midi files may be scheduled with a quick visit to cubase VST) Maybe change all those heavy metal tunes and distortion guitars into trance, and techno, with a bit of d'n'b, and some 303's)

I'm sorry, I don't get it. If I could stick another Analog modem on a line, wouldn't we all have 20 modems? ISDN is the following: A digital channel of 128Kbps. You get (in the UK) two analogue sockets, and 2 digital sockets. The two analogue sockets are for voice and fax. You should not use a modem on it because it will not get the full bandwidth of a normal analogue line, it is sampled and multiplexed (queezed) into a digital 64kbps sub-channel, you will probably get around 33k max. So in sumation 1 analogue channel uses 64k of the available 128k bandwidth. Also each digital channel uses 64K. You can have any combination of analogue and digital upto 128K. IE two voice, both digtal (128K), or 1 voice and 1 digital (64K). I have 1 very cheap ISDN modem (www.haicom.com.tw) that can bond both the digital channels, I'm pretty sure most others do too. If you have two modems, but one is using 128K digital, or both voice, or one of each, the other modem will not connect. But if all that is being used is 1 64K channel on each modem, and no voice/fax calls being made a 128K connection is possible! If you have the full whack ISDN 2e you usually also get use of the extra 20kbps, service/control channel. Basically you can't connect another two B-channels, just one; plus all the lines will be engaged to others. ------------------ System Spec: Athlon 800 Gigabyte GA-7IXE F4 128Mb SSi PC100 Radeon 64Mb DDR (10/10) Hauppauge Wintv Model 406 Realtek 8029 LAN (cnx to ISDN server) Creative ES1371 PCI64v Creative SBlive Value Creative 48mx CDROM Memorex TriMaxx200(DVD/CDR/CDRW, 6,4,24) Maxtor 91301U3 13Gb UDMA 4 LS120 If Jungle.com say it is not in stock it'll never be in stock, so don't order it.

Nice one, I rank this a five... Number one is make sure your ISP allows full rate isdn (128K). Number two is make sure your ISP allows multiple log-ons, ie two dial-ups at the same time, (some prevent this to stop fraud etc). To do all this you use channel bonding, or multi-link ppp as sometimes the tabs will tell you in win9x/nt. Last time I looked at my own connections, I had my 'A' and 'B' ISDN channels, and an analog modem. Now, ignoring the fact that when I use the digital channel bonding, all the lines are being used, if I wanted to add the analog modem, I would simply tick it off in that particular ISP dial-up Networking Icon, in the list of available modems. I can't verify this unfortunately, because I keep the server on auto-log-on as a power-user, and if I log-off to log-on as admin, I'll lode the Internet connection sharing for this PC, which is running BeOS at moment (sorry, I swore)! So the dial-up settings are locked Back in a mo.

I haven't seen the "old version" (unless you had a previous private beta), so its new to me. Aren't you getting mixed up with GLdoom?

u keeping an i on it too!

you have beta software installed somwhere, probably either directx 8 , or media player, get a newer version, direct x rc0, can be found at http://zoiah.m3dzone.com, and media player from any magazine cd, or microsoft.

Try deleting all nv*.* and oem*.* files first, and re-install any AGPgart/chipset drivers. Make sure you get those files in /winnt/inf, as they're hidden. ------------------ System Spec: Athlon 800 Gigabyte GA-7IXE F4 128Mb SSi PC100 Radeon 64Mb DDR (10/10) Hauppauge Wintv Model 406 Realtek 8029 LAN (cnx to ISDN server) Creative ES1371 PCI64v Creative SBlive Value Creative 48mx CDROM Memorex TriMaxx200(DVD/CDR/CDRW, 6,4,24) Maxtor 91301U3 13Gb UDMA 4 LS120 If Jungle.com say it is not in stock it'll never be in stock, so don't order it.

A while back it worked on my PC with a tnt, now that I have an ATI radeon, installed the two compatibility patches, it doesn't work. I'm actively investigating myself! I'll keep you up to date. Try changing the desktop resolution and depth before starting the game. ------------------ System Spec: Athlon 800 Gigabyte GA-7IXE F4 128Mb SSi PC100 Radeon 64Mb DDR (10/10) Hauppauge Wintv Model 406 Realtek 8029 LAN (cnx to ISDN server) Creative ES1371 PCI64v Creative SBlive Value Creative 48mx CDROM Memorex TriMaxx200(DVD/CDR/CDRW, 6,4,24) Maxtor 91301U3 13Gb UDMA 4 LS120 If Jungle.com say it is not in stock it'll never be in stock, so don't order it.

It may just be a corrupt file or file table, so run scandisk, and also do a surface test. If win2k hangs during the scan, try again in dos. Also if you have linux, beos, or have re-partitioned your hardrive, you may have overlapping partitions, I have suffered frtom that twice, one from the corel linux install, and from partition magic 5. The last option i can think of is that your harddrive is beginning to die. I got the same errors with an old 6.4gb hd last year. It had malfunctioned, and I found that the chips were seriously overheating, when it got hot it stoped working. It would make the usually noises, then it would do a burst of continuous (nay, frantic) searching, stop, and the HD light would stay on.

After I have exhausted that option... its usually time for a re-install

Uninstall the card, then re-install drivers and applications. This topic is frequently mentioned in the search results. ------------------ System Spec: Athlon 800 Gigabyte GA-7IXE F4 128Mb SSi PC100 Radeon 64Mb DDR (10/10) Hauppauge Wintv Model 406 Realtek 8029 LAN (cnx to ISDN server) Creative ES1371 PCI64v Creative SBlive Value Creative 48mx CDROM Memorex TriMaxx200(DVD/CDR/CDRW, 6,4,24) Maxtor 91301U3 13Gb UDMA 4 LS120 If Jungle.com say it is not in stock it'll never be in stock, so don't order it.

If your card is based on a brooktree chip ie bt878, 878a, 848, then use drivers from here http://www.geocities.com/amethman/ or just "borrow" from another manufacturer i don't think it is a bt chip so I think you're luck is out. Check out www.leadtek.com.tw for new leads. ------------------ System Spec: Athlon 800 Gigabyte GA-7IXE F4 128Mb SSi PC100 Radeon 64Mb DDR (10/10) Hauppauge Wintv Model 406 Realtek 8029 LAN (cnx to ISDN server) Creative ES1371 PCI64v Creative SBlive Value Creative 48mx CDROM Memorex TriMaxx200(DVD/CDR/CDRW, 6,4,24) Maxtor 91301U3 13Gb UDMA 4 LS120 If Jungle.com say it is not in stock it'll never be in stock, so don't order it.

I haven't tried it yet, as I don't have any 3d demos/games that use DX8, so there is no point. Also when i had DX8 on my tnt, just before I got the radeon it was a bit buggy, and showed no improvments over DX7. First find an app that has DX8 extensions/optimisations. ------------------ System Spec: Athlon 800 Gigabyte GA-7IXE F4 128Mb SSi PC100 Radeon 64Mb DDR (10/10) Hauppauge Wintv Model 406 Realtek 8029 LAN (cnx to ISDN server) Creative ES1371 PCI64v Creative SBlive Value Creative 48mx CDROM Memorex TriMaxx200(DVD/CDR/CDRW, 6,4,24) Maxtor 91301U3 13Gb UDMA 4 LS120 If Jungle.com say it is not in stock it'll never be in stock, so don't order it.

surely the lack of functioning tone controls isn't enough to force a new purchase! I don't recommend the live! as its a bit choppy, and although as a good DSP on board for effects, and also EAX. However, it still isn't as good as my PCI64v (es1371) at mixing MP3s in winamp, with win2000. The 64v can run directsound 100ms@1k (latency/blocksize), compared to the Live!'s on the boarder between choppy+broken (which causes either a breakdown in the buffer, requiring a flush (pause/play)) and failure to start. This is usually around the 400ms/9Kb settings. Thats a near half second delay when changing pitch settings, low-pass filters etc. Unberarable.

Disable some services in admin tools. Buy more memory... (oops thats right win2k will just fill it with more redundant bit and pieces hardly ever used). ------------------ System Spec: Athlon 800 Gigabyte GA-7IXE F4 128Mb SSi PC100 Radeon 64Mb DDR (10/10) Hauppauge Wintv Model 406 Realtek 8029 LAN (cnx to ISDN server) Creative ES1371 PCI64v Creative SBlive Value Creative 48mx CDROM Memorex TriMaxx200(DVD/CDR/CDRW, 6,4,24) Maxtor 91301U3 13Gb UDMA 4 LS120 If Jungle.com say it is not in stock it'll never be in stock, so don't order it.

I'w was comparing the two because the winme was the newest, and I was bored. The WDM compatibilty is as always "theoretical", it doesn't always work. Instead the packages often come with separate .sys files, or are contained within the one .sys file. I have tried all the ES137x derived drivers and have had little sucess, none have been more reliable than the standard MS ones. Doesn't it not worry you that this is stated on the creative website: Quote: This is a new driver release for Sound Blaster PCI128 (Model No. CT4750 & CT4751 - this installation does not support CT 4700 and 1370-based card models), for users running on Windows 2000. As usuall there is no reference to the other 20-odd configurations of PCI128's, which are left in a grey area. (I tried it anyway, a while back!) As far as I can remember, although its a bit messed up, creative just renamed some ES137x chips to there standard (CTXXXX), but then they revised the IC design, gave the chip a new part number, and Hey presto new drivers were needed. Although the drivers are standard the AC97 mixer configuration (mixer ins and outs) are different, this is why different drivers are often necessary. Take my card for example its a SBPCI64V, according to creative it is a ES1370, chip. It is actually a ES1371 on my board! What is what? I don't know. Neither do creative. If the intel drivers work for the card, then even so the tone controls are probably still greyed out. Hence, no progress.

Its important that I know the chip type. Look at the driver in system devices, it will be something like ES1371, ES1370 WDM or something else. I have a ES1371, so your chances are better if you have the ensoniq version. Heres something I found earlier This is from the Linux drivers, note the 0x00ff and 0xff masks, this shows that the bass is one half of a command, the other is treble, then the actual value is Or(ed) (added) to the leftover half! Code: case SOUND_MIXER_BASS:- val = ((l1 * 15) / 100) & 0xf;- wrcodec(s, AC97_MASTER_TONE, (rdcodec(s, AC97_MASTER_TONE) & 0x00ff) | (val << 8));- return 0;-- case SOUND_MIXER_TREBLE:- val = ((l1 * 15) / 100) & 0xf;- wrcodec(s, AC97_MASTER_TONE, (rdcodec(s, AC97_MASTER_TONE) & 0xff00) | val);- return 0; I also found this in the winme driver when comparing: a reference to a file on someones HD! F:\ntc\private\ntos\dd\wdm\audio\backpln\stdunk\stdunk.cpp Those lazy MS people must have not bothered getting rid of those last few compiler errors! [This message has been edited by euankirkhope (edited 28 September 2000).]

You've got to look at it in a more long-term aspect here. The one Win2k driver release will be it for a couple of years (unless you're a US citizen). I don't like them much because they refused to help fix a bug with overlay on nvidia boards in win 9x, NT4, and even w2k, as far as they were concerned it wasn't their problem. But overlay worked in all my other apps, with other TVcard drivers, and even other tv apps with the hauppauge drivers with my TNT. As it happens I couldn't keep using the "other drivers" because my board uses a custom sound chip. Additionally, the only way I could use my tv card before the latest win2k drivers (why I know use w2k) was in NT4, as when the drivers or wintv app crashed it didn't take out the entire system, unlike in 9x. [This message has been edited by euankirkhope (edited 27 September 2000).]

Need chip info.

http://get.qnx.com/ 28Mb download, its always good to see whats going on in the other OS's once in a while.

Right, I give in.

Mine was actually a Zenith CRT. Anyhow, why do you need new drivers for the SB64PCI, my es1371 [the ES, for Ensoniq is why it's so good ] doesn't need new drivers, the card has excellent latency. For example in winamp, with direct sound plugin, it can play seamlessly at 100ms latency with 1k block size. The SBLive! value using the latest drivers is absolutely terrible. I can't get more than 400ms, with huge blocks of upto 32K, any even still it looses sync, buffer overruns etc when you try to start another stream. The sb64v can easilly mix 5 winamps with no stuttering, the Live! can't even do 2. It is clear where Creative have to put their resources. The old Ensoniq drivers are rock solid and need no tinkering. (although tone controls would be nice, for jduImage) The bas$$rds in my eyes are Huappuage, those stinking wee gits haven't done S*&t in years. Next its STB, my velocity 4400 (which I've just replaced) only ever had 1 driver update. The TV-out has never worked with any of the detonator drivers. Hmm who's next?... ------------------ System Spec: Athlon 800 Gigabyte GA-7IXE F4 128Mb SSi PC100 Radeon 64Mb DDR (10/10) Hauppauge Wintv Model 406 Realtek 8029 LAN (cnx to ISDN server) Creative ES1371 PCI64v Creative SBlive Value Creative 48mx CDROM Memorex TriMaxx200(DVD/CDR/CDRW, 6,4,24) Maxtor 91301U3 13Gb UDMA 4 LS120 If Jungle.com say it is not in stock it'll never be in stock, so don't order it.

Ok I know whats happening, the PC has not hanged, the video driver has failed to start. Basically you're looking at a blank screen I used to get that with beta 3 and RC2 all the time with my old TNT. There are a number of procedures yo will have to go through. First of all, remove all cards except the Graphics card. Enter bios and verify that the card is assigned an IRQ, and that all shadow, palatte, and graphic caches are off. Start up safe mode, and install the latest Via 4-in-1 drivers from www.viatech.com/drivers then the latest 3dfx drivers. When in safe mode check in the event veiwer (control panel/admin tools) in the system tab, for the actual problem. I'm 99% percent sure I'm right. After a restart the driver should start and the display activate. This fooled me for ages as the monitor was getting a signal (just blackness), so the no signal LED never came on. It is important that the latest bios is installed. What make is your motherboard?

Thats a good one too, a 300W minimum Athlon approved PSU is recommended. Athlon mobo should be OK on the AGP power though? Maybe try disabling AGP 4x if you have it. ------------------ System Spec: Athlon 800 Gigabyte GA-7IXE F4 128Mb SSi PC100 Radeon 64Mb DDR (10/10) Hauppauge Wintv Model 406 Realtek 8029 LAN (cnx to ISDN server) Creative ES1371 PCI64v Creative SBlive Value Creative 48mx CDROM Memorex TriMaxx200(DVD/CDR/CDRW, 6,4,24) Maxtor 91301U3 13Gb UDMA 4 LS120 If Jungle.com say it is not in stock it'll never be in stock, so don't order it.