waxor

Is anyone else getting this problem? I just installed the new XP drivers released by Creative, and whenever I try to open up the Speakers option in the AudioHQ program my system will crank away for a short bit then report that 'Creative Sound Mixer has encountered a problem and needs to close.' I've tried all kinds of stuff, from reinstalling the sound drivers to reinstalling the web update.. I can't think of much else to do. Anyone have any ideas?

From what I understand, you don't have to worry about this. Most (well-programed) games will control their cpu priority independent of what's reported in the task manager.

I'm still not sure exactly what's causing the problem, but I did find out some interesting things.. When I pulled out my network card my taskbar would load perfectly fine, no wait or anything. I then switched my network card w/ a new 3com card (3C905CX), and at first my taskbar would load fine. However, after about 3 reboots I started getting the same problem again. I switched my network card to different slots, and fooled around w/ my bios pci/pnp settings and windows xP settings to try and get everything on a seperate IRQ. I was successful in this (although I kept running into a problem where WinXP would remove my forced settings and start assigning multiple devices to the same IRQ), and so far my taskbar, and system tray icons are loading up fine. I also have a Sound Blaster Live 5.1, and from some stories I've read about its problems with IRQ conflicts I suspect it may have something to do with this. I'm also guessing there's some buggy code with the way XP deals with IRQ sharing, or possibly the way it deals with network cards that are sharing IRQs.. Who knows.

Yeah I had the same prob. I did some searching on the forum and came up with this site: http://www.speedy3d.com/articles/nvidia_rrfix/index.shtml . However, with the new det drivers just changing what it says in that article didn't fix the refresh rates for me. What I did was searched out all instances of the nv14, etc. entries (there were about 5 or 6 of them) in my registry, and edited every one. Not the most elegant way to do things, but it worked.:0

I get the exact same prob, but coupled with that my taskbar will take ages to load up. Windows XP will load into my desktop fine, I can go to My Computer etc, but the taskbar itself takes about a minute to load up. If I move my mouse cursor over the taskbar all I get is an hourglass, and I have to sit and wait for the silly thing to load. Rarely it will load right away, but when it does load right away I always get a 'An Error Has Been Generated' with the option to send the error report to MS. Anyone have any clue what might be causing this? BTW, I have disabled all programs from starting up, and it did this on a fresh install of windows w/ no extra software loaded. Bugs the heck outta me.