First post, by Scythifuge
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Greetings,
I am using overkill components in my K6-III+ 600Mhz build, because I have the parts and I want to squeeze as much performance out of this machine as possible. I have read MANY posts on Vogons and watched Phil's (Computer Lab) Creative Labs/EAX video, and the consensus is that the Audigy 2 ZS is *THE* best EAX card for Windows 98 games when it comes to sound quality and speed when using EAX, and that WDM driver completely and utterly SUCK. Well, I had to reinstall the drivers because I couldn't select EAX in Vampire - T.M.R. So WDM drivers were reinstalled. V.T.M.R. was able to detect EAX. I then went to test Privateer 2. The game ran great with perfect sound. However, after changing the drivers over to VXD drivers, Privateer 2 now has major sound problems.
During dialogue choices, Clive Owen only speaks the first choice, and only once unless I let the 1st choice remain highlighted upon which after some time, he will repeat the line. When accessing the PAD, the sound completely cuts out. Space combat lacks certain sound effects.
Is there anything I can do, here? From what I read it is worth it to use the Audigy 2 ZS ONLY when using VXD drivers. I would like to utilize the card and not fall back onto a Live! card. Another option is to use the AWE32 which is currently disabled in Windows 98 as I use it for DOS games. It is a pain to switch playback devices all of the time, but not *that* bad. Though I would rather find a solution to this Privateer 2 / VXD problem.
Does anyone have any ideas, advice, or solutions? Also, on an unrelated note, if I utilize DMA on my DVD drives, they spin up and down for up to a minute or longer before letting me access the drives, so I turned DMA off. That seems to be a weird issue as well.
Scythifuge