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Hi Im not sure if these are the same drivers or not but i just went to www.soundblaster.com and downloaded the xp drivers direct from creative. I used to have the same prob with the speakers returning to 2 speaker mode, but now its fixed As for the popping im using the digital output (not the din) and it only pops when i check the box 'digital output only' but it doesnt really matter.

One thing that did actually annoy me with the straight 845 was the way it was being sold in places like PC World and Dell. I can only speak for the UK but i would expect the US to be the same kinda thing. They would say stuff like "amazing performance" and have a p4 2ghz with 512mb ram....sdram that is So the poor suckers not really getting what they think they are getting, now with this D version it makes it alot better The average person on the street can go get a p4 with good performance for alot less money than if they had gone with rdram. Surely thats worth a lot more to someone than an extra 50fps or an extra pixel shader that they wont even know is there

hehe thanks anyway 'rock' on indeed

Wow thanks alot clutch

Hmm fair enough so there are some games for it but a gf2 can cope with any of em and still make em look good. Dosfreak when did i say anything about integrated gfx? Im simply saying that the 845d is more deserving of the title of best hardware of the year than a gf3 or radeon 8500. It might not actually be a deserving winner but its a better choice than them 2.

Ok name some games that use the gf3s latest and greatest features, excluding max payne as its the same engine as 3dmark.

I cant beleve u can still say that you prefer gf3/8500 over the 845d in this case. Just think about it for a sec, the 845d allows the p4 to become more competititvly priced, keeping the same (rough) performance as the i850 while being 100% stable. Now the gf3/8500, hmm lets see, say i wanna play cs, ill just try my gf2 ultra, oh look 100fps. Now lets try the gf3/8500, oh suprise suprise 100fps now that was £300 well spent. Oh but wait, i do get more 3dmarks now so i suppose its well worth it ;( CS taken as an example But its gonna be the same for 95% of games, if your already getting 150fps then why do you need another 50 eh?

You might be right on the sound quality issue, ive never really compared em

That error isnt gonna be fixed by a service pack, stick your cpu back to default and see if it still does it (like bladerunner said ).

Are you able to change the agp driving strength in the bios of the motherboard? If yes you could try a setting of DA or EA and see if it makes any difference.

Ok this is a shot in the dark but it isnt just media player 7 using the old media player 6 skin is it? Cos it has a skin just like that.

Well i installed it last night, no probs so far. Even RAID works which it never did with the RCs My eyes are still adjusting to the whole blue-ness of it but i think its gonna be staying on my pc for some time to come. and its 'rock'. btw i checked underdogs and now they just have a link to buy ttdlx, it was download b4

Well done Lose some performance but at least it now works This is usually the part where we wait about 5hours and then you reply and say that it did it again Did you try the via latency patch?

Well I care for one. What would happen if every program just did what media player did. eh? Its just the principal Why use an overly bloated media player when you can have a nice small one that does everything you need and more?

It works fine for most things, i only use memorex/kodak cd-r(w)s usually but the few times ive used no-name ones it has worked fine. It does take a bit longer than my dvd drive to actually get going though once you put a disk in, actually about 5-10seconds longer but once its going its fine. Ill have a play around with it later when i get home and see if does anything strange when i use a no-name cdr. It never freezes up the pc though while its reading.

What exactly is wrong with the 845D being product of the year? Its certainly more worthy of the title than a gf3 or radeon 8500. It does exactly what that guy says, allows the p4 to have virtually the same performance and be alot cheaper than it would be with rdram 'solutions' (man i hate that word). Its exactly what the p4 needed to make it more competitive price/performance wise. Maybe you could explain to me what the gf3/8500 has done to make it product of the year, apart from introducing a lot of new features that wont be used.

Hi Probably wont help you but ive got the same drive but the 12x version.

Winamp 'rocks' Load up winamp and mediaplayer 7/8 go to task manager and see how much memory they both need. That is why winamp 'rocks'. It does everything that mediaplayer does at the fraction of the memory cost, and you can get loads of skins for it and customise it to your tastes. Great little program. As for via chisets words cannot express how pleased i am to finally be rid of them. Before, yes my pc was stable but it took endless tweaking and changing of bios settings/installing drivers to get it that way. Now what have i done ive installed the hardware, installed windows and it works...just like that AMD chips are great and i would probably be running 1 now if there was a good chipset for it to go with, but i wouldnt call via good ;( In summary winamp and intel 'rock' and media player 'sucks'

Thanks ill give that a go and see if i can get it out. Havent tried much up to this point because it looks pretty well stuck to the carpet, it is silver after all.

Nothing wrong with sequels as long as they are good, and i think that 2 is better than 1 in this case AVP2 'rocks' L O L

Bah Americans

Im glad to see no-one has said Return to castle wolfenstein 'yet' ;( "rock"

Counter-Strike absolutly. I cant beleve you can get it for free, talk about value for money. But i also really loved Aliens Vs Predator 2, great atmosphere and good graphics and it finally has a decent story. GTA3 would be my fav console game but the PC has to be platform of the year, authough i dunno if it will be next year with all these new consoles coming out. "rock"

Ok well ive gone and bought it now. I was just looking for ways to spend some moola. Has anyone had any luck getting transport tycoon deluxe dos/windows95 working? I would really love to be able to play this game again. You can download the win95 version from http://www.underdogs.cjb.net if anyone fancies giving it a try. Guess im a dummy afterall ;( "rock"