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hello!
my problem is that creamware cards make small audible glitches in games. not in music or in studio working.
the music in these games is ok, but the glitches appear with realtime movement of graphics and whith some sounds of the games happen.
allmost every game is problematic.
i don't really care because i am not a gamer, but since i tryied the onboard soundcard and it was perfectly clear, why couldn't creamware be clear as well?
i have made many configurations with guru tool for pci latency, but no difference.
i have also tryied to cool a little more my sharks(14+6) by placing a fun looking towards the cards, but no result!
what this can be?
how could the onboard "cheap" chip be much clearer than 2500 euros system?
what is wrong?
i have the latest drivers.
it happend with asus p4c800e motherb.
it now happens with ic7g motherb.
intel prescott 3.0
.....but it is creamware cards that have the problem, onboard sound is clear.
what can i do?

you can safely use the cheapo onboard sound or whatever comes along in this category.
game sound isn't high fidelity - it's atmoshere and supposed to impressed - on cheap gear.

That stuff is done with DirectSound drivers optimized for gaming, i.e. when the CPU pushes MASSIVE amounts of data to the graph card the audio still works.

CWA supplies so called multimedia drivers without those features, as their target is completely different - it would make no sense at all to invest in driver optimization for games.

cheers, Tom

<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: astroman on 2005-10-26 09:39 ]</font>

Start -> Settings -> Control Panel -> Sound and Audio Devices -> click on the Hardware Tab -> double click on any of your Scope devices -> click on the Settings Tab -> Adjust the "PreLoad" value until it stops clicking (you'll want to make it bigger.)

I run plenty of games here fine using my Scope cards, never a click, never a hitch.

This is completely standard stuff, any soundcard using DirectSound drivers will click if its preload/buffer value isn't big enough (Try it with your onboard card if you want.) No rocket science involved.

Well stardust, that's probably because EAX is a gaming standard developed by Creative Labs. Scope card is an fairly specialized audio production tool, not a gaming device, so wasting time, ressource and money developing EAX support is pretty pointless, as no one will ever buy a Scope card for gaming. Cheap 20$ devices that support this are widely available and will coexist fine with Scope cards, so it's completely pointless for everyone.

Hey I just bought a 1M$ MacLaren F1! Why doesn't it do offroad correctly, even a 5000$ dirtbike will do it fine!

Hey, I just got this basic 13000$ ProTools rig, but it doesn't do EAX! I'm returning it to the shop.

Y'know.

thanks
i guess thats the solution.
i will use the onboard chip for games which is ok.