Soundblaster

[Richolmes72]

Hi guys,

I've just finished off my first build and everything seemed to be running fine.

Until I played Grand theft Auto 3 for the 3rd time. Now whenever i play this game the sound is really strange, there is a buzzy sound and all the sounds have a nasty robotic echo.
Thinking it was the game i downloaded the patch and this didn't help things.
I then tried another game, (Unreal Tournament) and had a similar problem.
My Soundcard is a Soundblaster Live! 5.1 Digital and I'm using Harmon Kardon 595 speakers on them.
Also when i enable the digital output all i get is a crackle and pop noise through the speakers.
When running in normal Analog mode in windows XP my speakers work fine and sound great but games sound really bad.
I checked the Creative website and it looks as if i have the most up to date drivers.

So I have no clue as to whats wrong...... Hope you guys can help

Cheers,

[Richolmes72]

Just to update:

When i run unreal tournament in full screen mode i get the nasty robotic echos in both the menu and in the actual game.
However when i run it in windowed mode, I still get them in the menu but not in the actual game which sounds crystal clear... again.

I don't have many games on my sytem yet, but Sim City 4 runs fine with no sound problems at all.

If any of you have any questions about my setup/the problem

Hope someone can help me out as I'm out of ideas as of what it could be.

Thanks

[Xayd]

Is it an AMD/Via setup by any chance?

If so Creative cards usually won't work until the 4 in 1 drivers are installed.

[wolfie]

plus if you dont have digital speakers the digital box in the 5.1 should not be checked.

[Nuclear Krusader]

And make sure the sound card is not in the first PCI slot, the one next to the AGP.

[Richolmes72]

No the board is in the 2nd PCI slot. But i have (kind of fixed the problem)

After buying 2 New games i then ran GTA3 afterwards and it worked.

So now, i have to run Splinter Cell, then quit it immediately and then load up GTA3, A bit of a pain but hey, it works.

As for the Speakers, they're designed for soundblasters as they have a yellow (digital), black (rear) and green (stereo) sockets. I used them on my last Pc which was a Soundblaster live 1024! So I am still unsure as to why that doesn't work but hey.

At least my sound works in GTA which is what i wanted.

Thanks for the advice anyway though.