LordHelmchen

I also have a GeForce and I get similar error trying to find out what's the reason for that for some time... Do you also have a Soundblaster Live ? Do you have a VIA chipset on your motherboard ?

I think it's the VIA chipset on your board that doesn't like the SB live! What you should try first is lovering the hardware accelleration of the SB live in your conroll pannel. If this doesn't help... is you Graficcard PCI ? If it is the only way might be to replace it with an AGP card. If you get crackling sound with an AGP grafic card I bet it's a geforce..in this case do the following START - RUN - REGEDIT -HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\NVIDIA Corporation\Global\System In the system folder if not already there(as on some PC's this tweak won't do this part, if the following is already there then no need to continue as the tweak is complete.) add a new Binary Value called Super7Compat (you must write it with capital S and C) Then modify it with a value of 00 00 00 00 Thats it, reboot and no more geforce crackle. Again i say , if you still get crackle it is because your SBLIVE card and the VIA chipset do not work together very well.

Never heard about such a tool but if there is something like that I defenatly need to have that too! My drivers are so skrewed up and I can't even reinstall LiveWare because it freezes my system when I try.

I have the same problem with the sound (2 sounds @ the same time...) and I even sometimes get the bluescreen errors described in the liveware FAQ. Creatives solution is : rename "c:\winnt\system32\" to ctmm32.old and Reinstall "Live!Ware for Windows 2000" Well, I did but no matter if renamed or not I cannot reinstall the liveware driver cuz the setup just freezes my system ! aaaaah help plz . PS : I remember there was a liveware by Dell that wasn't really good but at least worked somehow. Anyone knows where to download? Any other hint ?