Vista/XP Tips on preventing crashes...

[NecroViolator]

This is going to sound very strange...
Ive read that the best place to have your Sound Blaster is on the Bottom/Lowest PCI Slot on the motherboard...

Ive moved mine to the Lowest and my bloody computer works better now...

People having problems might want to try it and see...

For the people with the Sound card on the Bottom/Lowest Slot TRY TDU Without ANY controller, just play with your Keyboard to see if this helps in anyway...Unplug the Controllers...

Hope this helps someone as it did me...

Thanks...

[SJ_INSTG8R]

Yeah mate that is pretty much "Standard Procedure" Creative has NEVER learned to place nice with IRQ sharing/conflicts and probably never will....

To the point there is a name for it when you have conflicts: "The Screech of Death" tho I have an X-fi and its not sharing any IRQs with anything it still "screams" at me once in awhile.....
Great sound BAD Software, but sadly they pretty much have the market cornered if you want EAX support above 2.0 so your stuck with them if you want anything better than Onboard Sound(sure there's Auzentech and others but again EAX 2.0 is all they ever let loose for anyone else to use)

[NecroViolator]

Yeh, thats true... Ive havent really had any problems with the game itself, besides the bad Super Car handling, but other than that, someone said it does help to move/place the card at the bottom... Although Ive noticed that my Map Building problems still exist so Im thinking its mostly a GFX Driver problem of some sort... :(...

[dickij]

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