Dragon-Lord

you should send your info to the CL Sblive! newsgroup...they would go ballistic! :}

I just dumped powerstrip 2.72 to try and the proper refreshes for my monitor (75-85khz) are being used automatically. I want to still boost it up higher with pstrip, but that app doesn't seem to like the new d3 drivers. So, this'll do for now... :} ------------------ W2K Pro(Purchased Retail, ACPI/SMP) Supermicro SBDBS r1.02, Bios 3.0 (dead on-board SCSI chip) 2xPIII @450mhz (not o/c) 256mb PC100 Ram in 2 sticks 3xIDE HDs (50gb total, all NTFS) and 1 Pioneer IDE DVD-ROM (all UDMA) Geforce 256 DDR (32mb), CL AnnPro (DET v5.32) SBLive! Platinum with digital breakout card (LW3.0) 3COm 3C515-TX ISA Ethernet 10/100 (W2k CD) SIIG AP-40 UWide SCSI PCI (W2K CD) Nikon LS-2000 SCSI film scanner (drivers now released) Sony SDT-9000 SCSI 4mm DAT (W2K CD) SAF 4012 SCSI CD-Write (W2K CD) Iomega Zip 100 SCSI Drive (no drivers) MS Natural Keyboard Pro USB (updated MS drivers) MS Intellimouse Optical USB (updated MS drivers) HP Laserjet 6L via USB printing (W2K CD) Epson Stylus Photo 700 via parallel Rainbow Sentinel Parallel Dongle for LightWave6

I get the performance library/perfproc error 37 if I... don't disable hardware keyboard monitoring in PowerStrip (any recent version) and/or any virus checking program is running on my system, in auto-enable mode. For example, if I disable auto-detect/auto-enable on NAV2000, this error goes away. My email and files are still checked when requesed, but automatic virus protection is disabled. I get perfproc and performance library/time collect function errors if I run ANY virus checking program on Win2K (NAV, AVG, InocculateIT) all have the same effect. The also cause invalid_process_attach attempt BSODs on reboots occassionally. I have disabled virus checking on my machine because of these problems and all works flawlessly. The problems existed before and after SP1 is applied. you can clear and reinitialize the Winmgmt ADAP library by running winmgmt.exe /clearadap and rebooting your machine. Hope some of this helps :} ------------------ W2K Pro(Purchased Retail, ACPI/SMP) Supermicro SBDBS r1.02, Bios 3.0 (dead on-board SCSI chip) 2xPIII @450mhz (not o/c) 256mb PC100 Ram in 2 sticks 3xIDE HDs (50gb total, all NTFS) and 1 Pioneer IDE DVD-ROM (all UDMA) Geforce 256 DDR (32mb), CL AnnPro (DET v5.32) SBLive! Platinum with digital breakout card (LW3.0) 3COm 3C515-TX ISA Ethernet 10/100 (W2k CD) SIIG AP-40 UWide SCSI PCI (W2K CD) Nikon LS-2000 SCSI film scanner (drivers now released) Sony SDT-9000 SCSI 4mm DAT (W2K CD) SAF 4012 SCSI CD-Write (W2K CD) Iomega Zip 100 SCSI Drive (no drivers) MS Natural Keyboard Pro USB (updated MS drivers) MS Intellimouse Optical USB (updated MS drivers) HP Laserjet 6L via USB printing (W2K CD) Epson Stylus Photo 700 via parallel Rainbow Sentinel Parallel Dongle for LightWave6

and it does this to me whether I am running single or dual proc. sad, sad, sad NAV2000... :}

and it does this to me whether I am running single or dual proc. sad, sad, sad NAV2000... :}

yes, my funkiness with ie5.5 has stopped as well with SP1. 2D display refreshes are noticeably faster...the system is running mucho stable now... LW3 still fails EAX under SMP...so this is a SBLive! driver issue. NAV2000 still hangs during large numbers of files scanned, so this must be a Norton issue. The rest of it is smoking... :}

Okay, fair enough. :}

uh, that's a driver issue, yes? My geforce reports opengl v1.2 in blaster control panel with v5.30 drivers... :}

uh, that's a driver issue, yes? My geforce reports opengl v1.2 in blaster control panel with v5.30 drivers... :}

most of us have found you have to enable the /realtime flag with r_smp 1 to get SMP to work. Unfortunately, it drops your fps by 20% or so instead of increasing it. I don't believe the detonator2 drivers are SMP equipped. So, here's the setting you need in your shortcut, but honestly, I'd skip it for now. C:\WINNT\system32\cmd.exe /c start /realtime D:\Games\Quake_III_Arena\quake3.exe +set r_smp 1 Season directory information to taste... :} ------------------ W2K Pro(Purchased Retail, ACPI/SMP) Supermicro SBDBS r1.02, Bios 3.0 (dead on-board SCSI chip) 2xPIII @450mhz (not o/c) 256mb PC100 Ram in 2 sticks 3xIDE HDs (50gb total, all NTFS) and 1 Pioneer IDE DVD-ROM (all UDMA) Geforce 256 DDR (32mb), CL AnnPro (DET v5.32) SBLive! Platinum with digital breakout card (LW3.0) 3COm 3C515-TX ISA Ethernet 10/100 (W2k CD) SIIG AP-40 UWide SCSI PCI (W2K CD) Nikon LS-2000 SCSI film scanner (drivers now released) Sony SDT-9000 SCSI 4mm DAT (W2K CD) SAF 4012 SCSI CD-Write (W2K CD) Iomega Zip 100 SCSI Drive (no drivers) MS Natural Keyboard Pro USB (updated MS drivers) MS Intellimouse Optical USB (updated MS drivers) HP Laserjet 6L via USB printing (W2K CD) Epson Stylus Photo 700 via parallel Rainbow Sentinel Parallel Dongle for LightWave6

Have you checked your event viewer recently? Running NAV2000 on my machine (SMP) causes perfproc failures in winmgmt.exe Not sure if that was a problem as regards to crashes, etc., but turning off the auto-protect made those errors go away. Also, I cannot do a full virus scan on my system without NAV2000 hanging about 60,000 files into it...this is repeatable, it will not finish. Oh, and again perhaps due to SMP, I can crash/freeze the machine if I am doing a virus scan and checking mail (nav mail virus detection enabled) at the same time. :} ------------------ W2K Pro(Purchased Retail, ACPI/SMP) Supermicro SBDBS r1.02, Bios 3.0 (dead on-board SCSI chip) 2xPIII @450mhz (not o/c) 256mb PC100 Ram in 2 sticks 3xIDE HDs (50gb total, all NTFS) and 1 Pioneer IDE DVD-ROM (all UDMA) Geforce 256 DDR (32mb), CL AnnPro (DET v5.32) SBLive! Platinum with digital breakout card (LW3.0) 3COm 3C515-TX ISA Ethernet 10/100 (W2k CD) SIIG AP-40 UWide SCSI PCI (W2K CD) Nikon LS-2000 SCSI film scanner (drivers now released) Sony SDT-9000 SCSI 4mm DAT (W2K CD) SAF 4012 SCSI CD-Write (W2K CD) Iomega Zip 100 SCSI Drive (no drivers) MS Natural Keyboard Pro USB (updated MS drivers) MS Intellimouse Optical USB (updated MS drivers) HP Laserjet 6L via USB printing (W2K CD) Epson Stylus Photo 700 via parallel Rainbow Sentinel Parallel Dongle for LightWave6

I got this from Alastair Upton on the creative labs sblive newsgroup so I am sharing it here. Until CL releases drivers that work under SMP, a great solution is to go to your boot.ini file. Copy the windows2000 boot entry there and add the flag /ONECPU to the second (or first if you prefer). Make sure your timelimit is upped from 0 (I use 3), or you won't have time to make your selection. I also added the phrase "dual" to my SMP (not /ONECPU) entry just to make things clear. Since I only use SMP when I am working in 3D, and I never play games at the same time I am rendering or working in 3D, this works very well for me indeed. I leave hardware acceleration for the SBLive! at full, and boot by default into the /ONECPU mode. When I want to work in 3D, I reboot, and 30 seconds or so later, I am good to go. No ACPI uninstalling/reinstalling, no crippling the LiveWare drivers, etc. While this isn't a true fix, I think it is the best workaround from a system and user standpoint I have seen to date. So, until CL gets their ****e together, I hope this helps. :} ------------------ W2K Pro(Purchased Retail, ACPI/SMP) Supermicro SBDBS r1.02, Bios 3.0 (dead on-board SCSI chip) 2xPIII @450mhz (not o/c) 256mb PC100 Ram in 2 sticks 3xIDE HDs (50gb total, all NTFS) and 1 Pioneer IDE DVD-ROM (all UDMA) Geforce 256 DDR (32mb), CL AnnPro (DET v5.32) SBLive! Platinum with digital breakout card (LW3.0) 3COm 3C515-TX ISA Ethernet 10/100 (W2k CD) SIIG AP-40 UWide SCSI PCI (W2K CD) Nikon LS-2000 SCSI film scanner (drivers now released) Sony SDT-9000 SCSI 4mm DAT (W2K CD) SAF 4012 SCSI CD-Write (W2K CD) Iomega Zip 100 SCSI Drive (no drivers) MS Natural Keyboard Pro USB (updated MS drivers) MS Intellimouse Optical USB (updated MS drivers) HP Laserjet 6L via USB printing (W2K CD) Epson Stylus Photo 700 via parallel Rainbow Sentinel Parallel Dongle for LightWave6

I am glad your system is running fine, but the post and tip is to help the hundreds/thousands of people having problems with EAX/crackling/distortion under SMP with all SBLive! drivers. Note that this is a CONFIRMED PROBLEM that creative is working on fixing, according to their own staff on their own newsgroup. :}

oh, and the best part of all is that I don't have to run Win98se/me/what have you anywhere on my system. :}

I had a ton of bugs with ie5.5 upon installing on a fresh w2k install, but I seem to have fixed it. I uninstalled ie5.5, then installed ie5.01SP1, then upgraded to ie5.5 again and so far, so good. I am hoping the W2K SP1 cleans up the last peculiarities. :}

it is also happening for me, but only under ie5.5 It happened under the betas, so I lived with it. I did a fresh OS reinstall recently, and monitored my system for a while. No IE freezes. Then, I upgraded to the release 5.5 and the freezes resumed. Uninstalling 5.5 caused them to go away, as so on. Now, this is not a hard system freeze for me, but one that task manager can end the process and I can resume. I am running getright, adsubtract, and cookiepal (all latest, registered versions), so my default assumption has been that one of these programs isn't 100% happy with ie5.5. If you are not running one of these, then perhaps it is something in ie5.5 itself or ie5.5 related to W2K. Perhaps W2K SP1 will solve the problem, but since IE5.01SP1 does not exhibit this for me, I somehow doubt it. :}

the point is made however that the CL LW3W2K drivers still have major problems under SMP (perhaps ACPI) even on my Intel BX series chipset... At least my bluescreen IRQL crashes stopped with these new drivers... :}

Have you tried to install from the safe bootup? :}

You can't. The installation instructions for the beta7 player were very explicit in that regard. Since the final version is due out Monday (or so), I would just hold on and upgrade to the final instead. That version may have an uninstall option that kills two birds with one stone... :}

(sigh) I had 48 hours of perfection and bliss, and now it is EAX screeching again in UT and sound crashing in Quake3 (albeit less frequently than before). No hardware was added to my machine (except HP printer drivers and USB printing support) in the interim and the only software installed was IE5.5, photoshop 5.5, and Quicken 1999. I am now getting strange error messages regarding a bad file called ctl3d32.dll. SFC is choking on replacing one version with another (Event Viewer), but both versions come back with the same version number. I checked my version of the file and I am seeing a datestamp of 1995 (huh?). The error messages only show up when I install or uninstall the LiveWare 3 software and drivers. Anyone see any relation? I am very tired of this... :}

Yes, the best I can guess is that this is a problem with SBLive!, ACPI, SMP, and (possibly) SCSI - but the scsi hiccups could be just another symptom of the previous problem. These new drivers are certainly better with SMP, but it is clearly not perfect yet. The big question for me was whether the new reformat/reinstall made the difference in conjunction with the new LW3 drivers, or not? No way to tell, I guess. But since this procedure, everything involving IO works better now. I can compress 2gb of files, browse the web, play music, backup files to DAT, etc. all without crashing the system. Before, under the old LiveWare/System setup, an IRQL error would bomb me out somewhere during this process. The only IRQs shared in my previus setup were my PCI network card and the internal USB ports (enabled and working). I put an ISA ethernet card in the machine when doing all these changes and now I have no shared IRQs anywhere...for what it's worth. Here's to W2K SP1 coming out next week...fingers crossed. finicky OS, :} PS My OS is running on IDE/UDMA. ------------------ W2K Pro(Purchased Retail, ACPI/SMP) Supermicro SBDBS r1.02, Bios 3.0 (dead on-board SCSI chip) 2xPIII @450mhz (not o/c) 256mb PC100 Ram in 2 sticks 3xIDE HDs (50gb total, all NTFS) and 1 Pioneer IDE DVD-ROM (all UDMA) Geforce 256 DDR (32mb), CL AnnPro (DET v5.32) SBLive! Platinum with digital breakout card (LW3.0) 3COm 3C515-TX ISA Ethernet 10/100 (W2k CD) SIIG AP-40 UWide SCSI PCI (W2K CD) Nikon LS-2000 SCSI film scanner (drivers now released) Sony SDT-9000 SCSI 4mm DAT (W2K CD) SAF 4012 SCSI CD-Write (W2K CD) Iomega Zip 100 SCSI Drive (no drivers) MS Natural Keyboard Pro USB (updated MS drivers) MS Intellimouse Optical USB (updated MS drivers) HP Laserjet 6L via USB printing (W2K CD) Epson Stylus Photo 700 via parallel Rainbow Sentinel Parallel Dongle for LightWave6

I have returned my system to ACPI/SMP with the new drivers. This was after downgrading my system all the way to Standard (single processor) PC. This allowed me to set up my machine so that I was sure each device had a seperate IRQ. Once that was accomplished, I tried to go back to ACPI/SMP, but the system failed to boot, so a fresh install was required. My ACPI/SMP system still shows each device on a seperate IRQ (going up to 20). LW3: DirectSound still seems to be flaky (scsi access causes hiccups in media player but not winamp/wave mode, for example), but Unreal Tournament and Quake 3 now work fine with full accelerated settings on (note Q3A doesn't have EAX support, so no way to test that here, but UT does and works now). IRQL errors have stopped (so far...). I had to do a full OS reinstall and have only installed the latest and minimum hardware/software to get this working (i.e. no ASPI, no nero, no NAV2000 etc). Importantly, I had installed only the drivers for LW3 for my SBLive! and UT bombed out the system the first time I ran it. Also, the card was crackling and messed up when it came back (like LW2 errors). I then did a full LW3 install (the works), then powered down, powered up, and all is well...for now. Because of the winamp note above, I am sure it is not 100%, but mys system is now running better than it has ever. I was also running SP1.59 beta for W2 on my old install, so I suspect that was a bad idea as well. Ie5.5 running fine as well as all the latest Office 2000 SPs. Stay tuned, good luck, :} ------------------ W2K Pro(Purchased Retail, beta SP1 1.59RC) Supermicro SBDBS r1.02, Bios 3.0 (dead on-board SCSI chip) 2xPIII @450mhz (not o/c) 256mb PC100 Ram in 2 sticks 3xIDE HDs (50gb total, all NTFS) and 1 Pioneer IDE DVD-ROM (all UDMA) Geforce 256 DDR (32mb), CL AnnPro (DET v5.32) SBLive! Platinum with digital breakout card (LW3.0) 3COM 3C905B-TX 100-base ethernet (newest driver release on 3COM site) SIIG AP-40 UWide SCSI PCI (W2K CD drivers) Nikon LS-2000 SCSI film scanner (drivers now released) Sony SDT-9000 SCSI 4mm DAT (W2K) SAF 4012 SCSI CD-Write (W2K) Iomega Zip 100 SCSI Drive (IO 2.2.1a) MS Natural Keyboard Pro USB MS Intellimouse Optical USB HP Laserjet 6L via USB printing (newest drivers on HP site) Epson Stylus Photo 700 via parallel Rainbow Sentinel Parallel Dongle for LightWave6

I have returned my system to ACPI/SMP with the new drivers. This was after downgrading my system all the way to Standard (single processor) PC. This allowed me to set up my machine so that I was sure each device had a seperate IRQ. Once that was accomplished, I tried to go back to ACPI/SMP, but the system failed to boot, so a fresh install was required. My ACPI/SMP system still shows each device on a seperate IRQ (going up to 20). LW3: DirectSound still seems to be flaky (scsi access causes hiccups in media player but not winamp/wave mode, for example), but Unreal Tournament and Quake 3 now work fine with full accelerated settings on (note Q3A doesn't have EAX support, so no way to test that here, but UT does and works now). IRQL errors have stopped (so far...). I had to do a full OS reinstall and have only installed the latest and minimum hardware/software to get this working (i.e. no ASPI, no nero, no NAV2000 etc). Importantly, I had installed only the drivers for LW3 for my SBLive! and UT bombed out the system the first time I ran it. Also, the card was crackling and messed up when it came back (like LW2 errors). I then did a full LW3 install (the works), then powered down, powered up, and all is well...for now. Because of the winamp note above, I am sure it is not 100%, but mys system is now running better than it has ever. I was also running SP1.59 beta for W2 on my old install, so I suspect that was a bad idea as well. Ie5.5 running fine as well as all the latest Office 2000 SPs. Stay tuned, good luck, :} ------------------ W2K Pro(Purchased Retail, beta SP1 1.59RC) Supermicro SBDBS r1.02, Bios 3.0 (dead on-board SCSI chip) 2xPIII @450mhz (not o/c) 256mb PC100 Ram in 2 sticks 3xIDE HDs (50gb total, all NTFS) and 1 Pioneer IDE DVD-ROM (all UDMA) Geforce 256 DDR (32mb), CL AnnPro (DET v5.32) SBLive! Platinum with digital breakout card (LW3.0) 3COM 3C905B-TX 100-base ethernet (newest driver release on 3COM site) SIIG AP-40 UWide SCSI PCI (W2K CD drivers) Nikon LS-2000 SCSI film scanner (drivers now released) Sony SDT-9000 SCSI 4mm DAT (W2K) SAF 4012 SCSI CD-Write (W2K) Iomega Zip 100 SCSI Drive (IO 2.2.1a) MS Natural Keyboard Pro USB MS Intellimouse Optical USB HP Laserjet 6L via USB printing (newest drivers on HP site) Epson Stylus Photo 700 via parallel Rainbow Sentinel Parallel Dongle for LightWave6

are you running a Geforce2 GTS? I thought the demo was only for that card. :}

multires on the Powerstrip site entechtaiwan.com does just that and it is free. :}