Kathryn

I'm running Windows XP final, and I have a weird problem: When I play games which were made for DirectX 8 and up, everything works well. However, when I play a game that uses DirectX 7 or below, the graphics hang every few seconds, then they're smooth again, then hang... The sound is skipping all the time. It's not just with DirectX 7 and below, games that do not use DirectX at all, but they use wave files for background music AND sound affects, so when you have a wave file playing in the background as music, and on top of that, when a wave file plays for sound affects, the background wave file starts skipping and sounds really bad... Finally, anything that uses midi music through MCI hangs the whole system for around 30 seconds while loading the midi... Can't even move the mouse when it's doing that. I'm just wondering if anyone else is experienceing any of these problems... they're starting to get on my nerves lately. All my friends don't seem to have this problem, and it's really a bother. I'm running WinXP 2600, and I have a Sb Live! Value, 3dfx Voodoo 3 w/ TV out, ASUS KT133A motherboard, 512 megs of ram, AMD Athlon 1.2Ghz. Please, if anyone can help...

Nope, this board is an ASUS A7V133 + RAID but no onboard sound. What's been bothering me is everyone else who has a SB Live! doesn't seem to have the problem which I do...

I've tried downloading the new drivers from the Windows Update site, but they refuse to install, so I'm still using the ones that come with windows XP. I have tried upgrading to the official ones by Creative, but the program devldr32.exe that comes with that, is devldr32.exe version 1.0.0.22 which freezes after about 2 hours or so, and then I have no MIDI playback at all. So I stick with the drivers supplied with Windows XP, and devldr32.exe version 1.0.0.17 My friend has an SB Live! and also an nvida Geforce 3, and he experiences some of the same bugs as myself, especially the MIDI's loading through MCI cause the system to hang for a good few seconds. I'm out of ideas here