DrMrLordX
Lifer
Don't laugh, but the only setup I can afford is the following oddball mishmosh of hardware:
AMD k62-350
128 megs PC100 SDRAM(running at CAS2 Normal at the moment)
some DFI motherboard using via MVP3+ chipset
Ati Rage Fury(ATI Rage 128 GL chipset) vid card. 32 megs
Ensoniq AudioPCI(ES 1370 . . . yep, the original)
IBM DTLA harddrive(20 gig)
Western Digital Enterprise UWSCSI hdd(4 gigs, kinda cranky)
AHA-2940UW
some cd-rom drives that aren't relevant here
running OSr2 win95b, with all the necessary patches(except USB update I guess, I don't use USB devices)
some other crap that isn't relevant
Problem: I get staticy audio in a few apps that are fairly resource intensive. The major problem-apps are Diablo 2 and Kohan, though Fallout 2 also has some cracking and popping in audio. Note that these problems all occur when streaming from the IBM drive, not the old SCSI pos that has read/write problems when it gets even a little warm(I just use it to archive my old OS install). Strangely enough, some apps do not present this problem at all, like Black&White. That game brought my system to a crawl on certain occasions, but no sound problems.
History: This was originally a k6-233 with the same sound card, a Hercules Stingray 128/3d(rush based) vid card, and an Intel 430TX based mobo. No problems here, except I had PCI conflicts between the soundcard and the vid card at the desktop, NOT in diablo 2. I moved to a v3 for awhile and the pci conflicts were scaled back quite a bit. I upgraded to the k62-350 and mvp3+ board, and popped in the rage 128 fury to get my vid card off the PCI bus. I had to do a bunch of patching to get the motherboard stable and get OSr2 properly up-to-date, but after that, the machine was stable. I had to use beta drivers for the ATI card to get it to stop flickering at the desktop(6277 as opposed to 6269). I am running directX 8.0, and I've recently updated my old Ensoniq drives to the Creative Labs drivers through some fairly obscure drivers that CL won't even provide for users anymore(had to get them from a french site). Upgrading soundcard drivers didn't help any, but hey, it didn't break anything either.
AMD k62-350
128 megs PC100 SDRAM(running at CAS2 Normal at the moment)
some DFI motherboard using via MVP3+ chipset
Ati Rage Fury(ATI Rage 128 GL chipset) vid card. 32 megs
Ensoniq AudioPCI(ES 1370 . . . yep, the original)
IBM DTLA harddrive(20 gig)
Western Digital Enterprise UWSCSI hdd(4 gigs, kinda cranky)
AHA-2940UW
some cd-rom drives that aren't relevant here
running OSr2 win95b, with all the necessary patches(except USB update I guess, I don't use USB devices)
some other crap that isn't relevant
Problem: I get staticy audio in a few apps that are fairly resource intensive. The major problem-apps are Diablo 2 and Kohan, though Fallout 2 also has some cracking and popping in audio. Note that these problems all occur when streaming from the IBM drive, not the old SCSI pos that has read/write problems when it gets even a little warm(I just use it to archive my old OS install). Strangely enough, some apps do not present this problem at all, like Black&White. That game brought my system to a crawl on certain occasions, but no sound problems.
History: This was originally a k6-233 with the same sound card, a Hercules Stingray 128/3d(rush based) vid card, and an Intel 430TX based mobo. No problems here, except I had PCI conflicts between the soundcard and the vid card at the desktop, NOT in diablo 2. I moved to a v3 for awhile and the pci conflicts were scaled back quite a bit. I upgraded to the k62-350 and mvp3+ board, and popped in the rage 128 fury to get my vid card off the PCI bus. I had to do a bunch of patching to get the motherboard stable and get OSr2 properly up-to-date, but after that, the machine was stable. I had to use beta drivers for the ATI card to get it to stop flickering at the desktop(6277 as opposed to 6269). I am running directX 8.0, and I've recently updated my old Ensoniq drives to the Creative Labs drivers through some fairly obscure drivers that CL won't even provide for users anymore(had to get them from a french site). Upgrading soundcard drivers didn't help any, but hey, it didn't break anything either.
