bad audio hardware acceleration?

[Corsairpro]

I have a SB audigy (the original not audigy2) and i haven't been able to get it to work for hardware audio acceleration in either UT2k3 and BF1942... the only 2 games i have that have an option for hardware acceleration.....

it sounds hissy and skips and not at all like it does when I turn off acceleration and let it go the software route(sounds perfectly fine in software mode)... I upgraded to the august drivers (the latest available from creative) and still the same... I'm running it on an original nForce mobo, xp2000+ and 512 ddr winxp os.

Bumps and solutions appreciated

 

[Bovinicus]

I would suggest selling your Audigy on eBay and just using the onboard audio. The onboard audio on the nForce chipset is pretty high fidelity and easy on the CPU. The driver support should probably be better than with Creative.

However, if you really want to continue using your Audigy, make sure that you have disabled the onboard audio of the nForce2 in your BIOS. Once you do that, uninstall the device via the device manager. Have you tried all the levels of acceleration? My card was one notch shy of full acceleration by default. A problem I was having was corrected by setting the level of acceleration to full.

 

[Adul]

try diff pci slots, try newer drivers, uninstall it and install new drivers

 

[Corsairpro]

tried unistalling and reinstalling drivers, don't want to have to move the card to a diff pci slot...... any other ideas.... i want to keep the card cuz I have digital speakers and my original nforce only has analoge out.

 

[Adul]

try another pci slot like i said.

did u user the newly released drivers? they came out dec 31

 

[Davegod]

^ those dec 31st drivers are still the 253's, just updated language packs :s

maybe worth a try with the audigy2 ones, some threads about which explain more than I could, try a search?

 

[BD231]

I've never got hardware accel sound to work well in any game other than the first UT with any sound card, always took a performance hit as well. Using hardware sound in games is pretty useless IMO, but I never took the time to turn hardware sound on when I had an audigy so things may be different.

 

[Davegod]

btw try running dxdiag, it looks like i have the similar problem to you over here (going unanswered atm though ); although conversely the dxdiag tests for mine show hardware-buffered sounds being fine, and software buffered sounds being nasty when hardware accelleration is on; and only software buffered sound working + sounding fine when no accelleration is on... Weirdly it was all fine on previous OS install, except i'd get big FPS hit in UT2003 if i set the game to use hardware sound.