Elegant SMP/SBLive! crackling EAX Solution!

[Dragon-Lord 0]

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.

 

:}

 

 

 

 

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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

[Dragon-Lord 0]

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

[Ronin 0]

I have a dual CPU system and don'thave any problems from my SB Live card. Like I have said before I think these problems are not just driver related but also related to the hardware you have in your box, like the motherboard.

 

 

 

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My Windows 2000 System:

 

Dual Intel 850's

Tyan Thunder 2400 MB

Onboard Intel 82559 NIC

512 Megs Ram

Adaptec 39160 Ultra 160

1 - 18 Gig Cheetah - U160

2 - 18 Gig Cheetah U2W

1 - Maxtor 60 Gig (IDE)

SB Live Platinum

Plextor 12/4/32 - Burner

Plextor 40x UW CD-Rom

10x Sony DVD Drive

Hercules Geforce 2 64meg

Dual V2 Cards, for D2

Viewsonic PF815 22" Monitor

...

My Win ME System:

 

PIII 733

Asus P3C4X MB

256 Megs PC133 Mem

Adaptec U2W Scsi Card

1 - 9 Gig Cheetah 10K

48x IDE CD-Rom

CL Geforce DDR

ESS 1371 Sound Card

[Dragon-Lord 0]

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.

 

:}

[sotti 0]

I never had problems with crackling with the win2k driver release, or the lw2 release. Only the new liveware 3.0 drivers cause the crackling on my system, loading old drivers, disabling the second cpu, or turning hardware acceleration off, fixes the problem.

 

it IS a driver issue

 

oh yeah, and everything works fine if I boot to 98

 

[This message has been edited by sotti (edited 26 July 2000).]

[yakkob 0]

Hoobladdyray for ronin and his superspecced machine that he keeps displaying..

I have forgotten how many times you have said that 'your' sblive works..Well, in case you hadn't noticed, we all fuggin know now, so shut the **** up..

Unlike you, many peeps are having a problem, so if you have got a solution..Spit it out..If not..SHUT IT!

 

OK?

 

FFS