First post, by magicmanred
I have two different systems with SB Live! PCI Sound cards on Windows 98SE.
They both have the same issues in titles such as Viper Racing and Quake 3 Arena.
Issue #1
The best I can explain this issue is that whenever there are multiple sound effects played at one time, a sort of distortion happens.
Issue #2
In Quake.. certain weapons when fired sound like they are far away. But other sounds are loud, present and near.
To my knowledge, EAX is off and the speaker setting I have is "2 Speaker". I've tried the most recent drivers I could find of the Live! card.
Issue #2 almost sounds like a center channel is enabled that is supposed to be playing those particular sounds loudly that are coming through on my speakers faintly.
One machine has the SB Live! front panel interface.
When I plug in the headphones in the front, I get the same issues.
When I plug headphones in the rear of either computer, I get the same issues.
Both SB Live! cards are different models.
The one with the interface is the SB0060 and the other one is CT4780.
The SB0060 was a bit picky with drivers and some wouldn't play sound at all, but in the end both "work" but both have the same issue which leads me to believe it may be driver or software setting related.
Googling these problems have proved to be difficult as it is hard to phrase the issue in such a way that would produce results. (Unless I just don't know how to word the issue).
I'm not looking to replace these sound cards with anything else.
Any assistance is greatly appreciated.
