Sound Problems

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I have been recently had problems playing WC games when it comes to comms. When I try to use comms I always risk my computer crashing. So when I say "Break and AAttack" for example it would freeze for a minute then it would either play the sound or freeze the odd time. This happens in all WC games from WC3 onwards. It also happens in Starlancer. Can anyone tell me how I can fix this problem. I've got a 650 MHZ computer with 128MB of RAM and a sound Blaster AWE 32 sound card. I think I might need t update it's drivers but I can't find a suitable updated driver so if someone knows where to get one please tell me.
 
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I have been recently had problems playing WC games when it comes to comms. When I try to use comms I always risk my computer crashing. So when I say "Break and AAttack" for example it would freeze for a minute then it would either play the sound or freeze the odd time. This happens in all WC games from WC3 onwards. It also happens in Starlancer. Can anyone tell me how I can fix this problem. I've got a 650 MHZ computer with 128MB of RAM and a sound Blaster AWE 32 sound card. I think I might need t update it's drivers but I can't find a suitable updated driver so if someone knows where to get one please tell me.
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I forgot to mention that in starlancer it is worse as sound starts then stops then continues with a repete of it and continues to on this for a minute. Makes the game very annoying and hard to make out.
 
I was playing all WC games on a similar system (Athlon 650, 512 Ram, SB AWE 32 (ISA)), so in principle that should not be the problem. What OS are you using? I guess XP might not like the AWE anymore.
 
I'm using windows 98se. I'm using a compaq EP series p650 model computer. I think this and the old info should be all that you need. Hope it helps you to help me!
p.s. I have done windows update and did all secutirty and other relevent updates!
 
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I'm using windows 98se. I'm using a compaq EP series p650 model computer. I think this and the old info should be all that you need.
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I asked what version your current drivers are or when they were dated. Did you try the ones that I linked to?
 
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I asked what version your current drivers are or when they were dated. Did you try the ones that I linked to?
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The version I was using was "HID-compliant game controller" (it's also got a joystick port) but I tried the one in the link and it seems to work.... apart from when I restarted my computer to load the drivers the sound card seems to experienc new problems! it acts like it's not their so I can't listen to sound but I avn't touched the actual sound card! Any ideas? (p.s. I can't get sound back by changing drivers back to the original!)
 
"HID-compliant game controller"? If that truely was the only soundcard driver then it certainly wasn't the right one to start with. SB cards usually have 4-5 different driver entries. Anyhow, its too late to worry about that one.

Do you know which version of the AWE 32 you have? There are at least 3 of them. An ISA version (very long board, goes in a black slot in the main board), an ISA PNP (shorter board, also into a black slot) version and a PCI version (shorter board, white slot). Right now I'd hope for option #1.

Another thing to check: Is the soundblaster listet in the device menager? Does it have any exclamation marks in front of it?
 
Creative Labs doesn't seem to host the file anymore, but it looks like driverguide.com does. They have a gross registration process, but there will be newer drivers there for you to try.
 
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