First post, by d1stortion
Recently I got a Vortex 2 (Techworks SuperQuad) card to tinker around with. Using 2041 drivers+3.12 update on 98SE. I noticed some recurring popping noises in Unreal/UT (newest official versions). I had those games set to 32 voices and cut it down to 16 afterwards and now it happens a lot more rarely, so I'm wondering if it's a hardware DS3D voice limitation of the AU8830 chip. I don't really have anything else in this PC that could hog the PCI bus, so I don't think it's a bandwidth limitation. Other than that, the output of this card is certainly excellent though. Very quiet.
Also since both game and driver versions can apparently change things a lot I was wondering if anyone ever bothered creating a list with optimal versions for each game. E.g. with Unreal apparently older game versions are preferable while with Half-Life a certain update and settings will give the best results. Given the flaky nature of it all I guess the answer is probably no 🤣