Whenever I am playing some newer games, they play fine with NO lag. Though pretty often and at the same point in the game, it will freeze for a second and my speakers replay the last .1 second of sound repeatedly "BRBRRRBRBR" and then my comp reboots.
I have a newer gateway, 200gig hard drive, NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT (which the game suggest NVIDA), Intel Pentium 4 Cpu 3.2GHz, And I think I got a Realtek Alc860.
Anyone have an idea of what to do? I remember this may have been an issue of sound drivers a while back. Anyone have any ideas?
Name:
Anonymous2006-09-03 23:52
try updating drivers
Name:
Anonymous2006-09-04 0:15
I had this problem with the onboard Realtek on my motherboard, and after them blaming MS repeatedly, I actually downgraded the sound drivers (granted, lost ALOT of functionality for inputs and some tweaks for 5.1 or better sound), but stability at last. I would try upgrading to the latest and greatest off gateway's site, and if that fails, you can find other drivers for the realtek chip elsewhere.
Name:
Anonymous2006-09-04 0:58
Thanks, one problem. I got the game the game to stop rebooting. My brother told me to uninstall the drivers then install new ones. I did BUT...
I obviously uinstalled one wrong one, I uninstalled 2 sound ones, and 1 graphics driver. And now the game played and all that but I have no sound at all. So trying to figure out which codecs/drivers to download.
My comp tells me I have new harder, 'PCI device' but I don't have the cd lying around and I believe it's the device in hardware labeled 'audio codecs'
Name:
Nos2006-09-04 1:00
oh and I'm using XP (trying to do XP codecs atm)
Name:
Anonymous2006-09-04 1:10
Under Sound, Video and game controllers.
I have the following listed on my xp box, the one with the realtek integrated.
Audio Codecs
Legacy Audio Drivers
Legacy Video Capture Devices
Media Control Devices
Realtek(tm) Audio Codec Interface
Video Codecs
as for the missing "PCI device" go to install the driver for it, and point xp to the /windows/system32/drivers/ folder and see if it picks up the previously installed file, if not, you may be out of luck unless you try from an XP CD itself if you removed a core device.