Halo + Turtle Beach Sound Card under XP

Posted on 2024-02-04, 23:34

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by Gahhhrrrlic

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My system runs certain games alright with this card, some better under 98 and some better under xp. For some reason Halo doesn't run at all under 98 on my setup but it runs fine on XP. But the sound is garbage. I found a cfg file that lists all the vendors for all the supported cards and while the …

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Re: CD/DVD drive selection

Posted on 2023-07-16, 16:14

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by Gahhhrrrlic

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I think I found the problem at least although I'm not able to fix it yet. The Mitsumi driver seems to have re-written my autoexec and config to load its own driver. However, it seems to be loading 2 devices instead of 1. I tried removing the 2nd reference and now there's only 1 drive showing in …

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Re: Cloning 2 physical disks to 1

Posted on 2023-07-11, 02:31

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by Gahhhrrrlic

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I didn't know how to do the above so instead I cloned the defective drive only. But now with the new drive substituting for the old one, it won't boot. Is there a way to reconstruct a boot menu if you have 2 intact OS?

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Re: CD/DVD drive selection

Posted on 2023-07-09, 23:42

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by Gahhhrrrlic

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DOS works! So it looks like the cable isn't the issue. Rather there's something screwy going on in windows. I see and R and an S drive, which doesn't make any sense. The R drive is the correct one but the S drive is the one the CD player says has all the tracks on it (yet it doesn't play). What in …

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Re: CD/DVD drive selection

Posted on 2023-07-09, 05:03

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by Gahhhrrrlic

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DOS works! So it looks like the cable isn't the issue. Rather there's something screwy going on in windows. I see and R and an S drive, which doesn't make any sense. The R drive is the correct one but the S drive is the one the CD player says has all the tracks on it (yet it doesn't play). What in …

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Cloning 2 physical disks to 1

Posted on 2023-07-08, 22:24

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by Gahhhrrrlic

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I have a machine with a dual boot, XP and 7. XP resides on 1 physical disk and has 3 partitions, 7 on the other disk and it has the rest. Is it possible to do disk cloning onto say 1 single 1TB drive, where it will copy the contents of both physical source disks and put it onto the 1 target disk?

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Re: CD/DVD drive selection

Posted on 2023-07-08, 22:23

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by Gahhhrrrlic

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Ok let me try the dos method first and report back. I want to do the direct cable method but I'm trying to determine if a disconnected or broken cable connection would prevent the drive from "trying" to play anyway (ie. whether you'd see disc activity or not). I am not seeing disk activity beyond …

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Re: CD/DVD drive selection

Posted on 2023-07-07, 23:34

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by Gahhhrrrlic

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Anyone have any guidance on this? I'm trying to diagnose before the 30 day return runs out...

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Re: CD/DVD drive selection

Posted on 2023-07-03, 00:29

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by Gahhhrrrlic

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So if it doesn't... it's a software issue? I've tried different players. Is there some CD audio codec I need to install? I think that'd be part of WinAmp already. Heck it should be part of windows already.

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Re: CD/DVD drive selection

Posted on 2023-07-02, 23:45

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by Gahhhrrrlic

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Does the computer detect whether there's a connection between the CD-ROM and the sound card and then refuse to play cds if absent or does it always play but you just wouldn't hear anything if the wire wasn't there? I'd like to understand if this is a cable problem or if it's some sort of driver or …

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Re: CD/DVD drive selection

Posted on 2023-07-02, 15:01

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by Gahhhrrrlic

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The audio connector is connected. The cd spins up when I go to winamp source and pick the drive I want to play the audio from. Then in a split second, all the tracks populate and I can hear noises from the drive so I know it's loading the tracks. but when I hit play nothing happens and the busy …

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Re: CD/DVD drive selection

Posted on 2023-07-02, 14:17

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by Gahhhrrrlic

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I finally received my 4x Mitsumi FX400 drive. The drive itself runs fine and it does read CDRs so a win there. However the damn thing won't play audio CDs. Now before I say what I think... what could cause a functioning CD drive not to play audio CDs (although it will show every track in Winamp but …

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Re: Descent Freespace Demo not running in DX mode

Posted on 2023-05-22, 22:27

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by Gahhhrrrlic

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Dude that did it! But why couldn't I find it when I searched? Because this did occur to me and I started typing in FSDEMO11.exe, FSDEMO12.exe, etc trying to find a patch but couldn't. Bit of a shame I couldn't find another way to force the support, as that'd be far more valuable to others than just …

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Re: CD/DVD drive selection

Posted on 2023-05-22, 15:54

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by Gahhhrrrlic

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Based on peoples' personal experiences there might be multiple "right" answers. I'm all for period correct but I'm curious why you're saying go for the new stuff Intel. Is it because the old ones are 2nd hand and may break or is there some technology related reason?

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Re: CD/DVD drive selection

Posted on 2023-05-22, 02:38

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by Gahhhrrrlic

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Cost isn't really a driving factor in my case. The problem is I have a 2GB partition for games only and with the half dozen or so games I have, which all require CDs, I simply can't fit all the ISOs on that partition for mounting. Therefore I really have to get a cd drive that can read cdrs, as only …

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Re: Descent Freespace Demo not running in DX mode

Posted on 2023-05-21, 23:36

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by Gahhhrrrlic

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Seems I've heard this story before. Games in the 90s really were on the bleeding edge of progress if a month delay until the retail release would mean the difference between your card being supported or not. Thanks for putting that to bed.

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Descent Freespace Demo not running in DX mode

Posted on 2023-05-21, 20:03

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by Gahhhrrrlic

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Finally I'm starting to have some good success with my Rage II card, getting it to run 3d games and even overclocking it with PowerStrip. I've got TR1, Mech2, Starcraft, Wipeout, Forsaken, F22 Raptor, all running well on the card. Not lightning fast but definitely playable. Descent Freespace should …

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Re: CD/DVD drive selection

Posted on 2023-05-15, 00:25

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by Gahhhrrrlic

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The US always has 10x the variety and inventory of Canada which sucks. I have to put up with sub-par selection of everything or pay through the nose for re-shipping... I guess I'll go with the CRMC-FX810S. Hopefully it reads CDRs. I can't imagine how I'd get Stellar 7 or KQ5 to work if my discs ever …

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Re: CD/DVD drive selection

Posted on 2023-05-14, 19:48

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by Gahhhrrrlic

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Actually it looks like my options are limited by what's available anyway. Here are 2 I found. Not sure if either is any good at reading CD-Rs https://www.ebay.ca/itm/284840701316?hash=item4251d42d84:g:ZZAAAOSwnWtimdcJ&amdata=enc%3AAQAIAAAAwN6eMOnLAEtqjuwH7tGnQ34n894I2yn1q53nGvPUTSNgec1F8dtm0yhr4E% …

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Re: CD/DVD drive selection

Posted on 2023-05-14, 18:41

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by Gahhhrrrlic

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Ah ok sorry I forgot it was only the slow ones. I read something that certain drives would simply refuse to read CDRs because of the physical structure of the disk being different and somehow the laser would figure that out and tell the drive not to read it, whereas other drives would simply have …

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