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Article #707328Re: Pentium 4 2ghz/No win 98 or ME Please help
From: rammadman
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2001 14:04
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2001 14:04
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I have cured my problem with sound under W2k by turning off hardware acceleration for the SBLive. ControlPanel->SoundsAndMultiMedia->Audio->SoundPlayback(Advanced)->Performan ce Move the control bar to none for hardware acceleration. "SpaceGirl" <spac...@subhuman.net> wrote in message news:tr3veq7kmlsa6a@corp.supernews.com... > Oh well. In my experience it has. Most reviews I've seen have reported equal > or faster frame rates under w2k. The stability of the OS makes it far better > in my opinion. I dont want to have to close all my programs down to play a > game - extreme frame rates arn't a big issue for me as I'm only an > occasional gamer... I've no idea why some ppl might have problems with sound > under w2k... well okay I know SBlive cards are weird under it sometimes. > I've not found a game yet that wont run perfectly under w2k on my old > machine: > > Windows 2000, SP2 > SB Live > Athlon 750 > Chaintec 7AJA motherboard > 512Mb > GeForce 2 Ultra > > It runs like a dream with Deus Ex, Quake3, Unreal. Not tried anything else > tho + I dont have to shut down any apps or anything AND it's a web server. I > dont even see any stuttering. > > > "Brandon B." <bbo...@telisphere.com> wrote in message > news:Syms7.40$9Y2.34888@bcandid.telisphere.com... > > "SpaceGirl" <spac...@subhuman.net> wrote in message > > news:tr3r4s7i8eeg20@corp.supernews.com... > > > Funny? Why? Windows 2000 is far better at games. > > > > > > > > > > > If it is far better why does Everquest have FAR BETTER sound in win98 then > > in win2k? > > I have to dual boot just for that one reason. > > Brandon > > > > > >
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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!sn-xit-02!sn-post-01!supernews.com!corp.supernews.com!not-for-mail From: "rammadman" <antim...@nova.com> Newsgroups: alt.comp.periphs.videocards.nvidia,alt.games.anarchy-online,alt.intel,alt.os.windows2000,alt.windows98,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.adventure,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.flight-sim,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games. Subject: Re: Pentium 4 2ghz/No win 98 or ME Please help Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2001 10:04:35 -0400 Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com Message-ID: <tr6cfmg2iclv25@corp.supernews.com> References: <Qkls7.10685$w7.2201349@news02.optonline.net> <tr3r4s7i8eeg20@corp.supernews.com> <Syms7.40$9Y2.34888@bcandid.telisphere.com> <tr3veq7kmlsa6a@corp.supernews.com> X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 X-Complaints-To: news...@supernews.com Lines: 53 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit