First post, by xtreger
I have an Audigy 2 ZS installed on Win98 with VxD drivers. I ran Hitman Contracts which uses EAX 3 and in certain scenarios (e.g. opening the map or navigating a menu), there seems to be some annoying pop sound that accompanies the map opening sound effect or inventory weapon switching sound effect. I don't know why, and this problem does not happen with WDM drivers, and this problem doesn't happen if I disable sound HW acceleration in VxD.
Secondly in road rash, the midi during race doesn't play unless I select the SB Audigy sw synth device from multimedia properties, and even then only the drum and bass instruments play - nothing else. This issue also does not happen with WDM drivers.
On the other hand, with WDM drivers if I play hitman contracts for long enough, the game eventually starts to stutter badly, and if I keep playing despite that, the game will eventually hang with the sound repeating. As if some buffer is filling up as I play and as that buffer gets full, performance degrades leading to an eventual hang. This problem does not happen with VxD drivers, and this doesn't happen if I disable sound HW acceleration in WDM.
Anyone has an idea of what on earth is going on? Is EAX broken with Audigy 2 ZS in Win98? Is MIDI also broken?
