[Lutz]

Hey all.
Loaded up FreeSpace 2 onto my new PC and I'm having trouble...
First off if I run the game in XP the after burner doesn't work. Odd.
If I run in 95 or 98 though it works fine.

Worse though is my sound. The noise of the beam lasers firing is jamming, and constantly being played. I've got the latest drivers etc, but I dont' have a very fancy sound card, just the bog standard one. I've downloaded the patches to v1.2, but it's made no difference.

The daft thing is is that my last PC worked it fine, and they're identical almost (2.2ghz to 2.8ghz, 256 ram to 512 ram, 64 GeForce 3 to 128 GeForce 4) so both should run it.

Can anyone help me here?

Cheers all,

Lutz

[magatsu1]

reinstall. Hey, try the easy things first, right ?

[Lutz]

Yeah, tried the re-install and tried every compatability mode both with and without patch. I've been at this for 2 and  a half hours. I'm not a happy chappy...

[castor]

For the afterburner thingy, try a search within this forum (something like "afterburner AND XP"); there has been some discussion on that matter before.

Regarding the sound, dunno.. maybe just another side-effect of running FS2 with improper XP settings..

EDIT: umm.. anyone with 'the beam' at hand..

[Lutz]

Cheers Castor, but the afterburner thing ain't the main problem. It only affect XP mode, but the sound thing affects ALL modes regardless.
My sound card isn't actually a soundcrad, it's C-Medias on board sound, but it's the same one that was on my last PC, and that PC was fine with FS2

[Bobboau]

I think it's

[edit]yup

[Lutz]

Cheers!

[karajorma]

The afterburner thing is a known problem with XP. Running in compatability mode usually makes it go away. No idea about the other problem though.

[Lutz]

Well, I never had the Afterburner problem on my last XP machine... ???
I'm getting a sound card from  a mate on Monday. If I put that in... Well, I'm crossing all fingers and toes

[diamondgeezer]

Er... where'd you get your sound drivers from, Windows Update or your motherboard manufacturer?

[karajorma]

It doesn't affect every copy of XP and the fact that the problem only appeared a few months back makes me suspect that it's caused by an XP specific update of some kind.

[Lutz]

My sound drivers... not sure. Getting replaced on Monday though with a different card. My mobo is the one that came in the PC, not sure how to find out what it is. My Windows update is from M$.

So the problem has been reported before if you say it appeared a few months back?

[diamondgeezer]

Try checking your hardware manager, that ought to give you some clues as to your mobo model. Failing that just take the side of the damn thing off and look at it

[Lutz]

Well, I've scoured the hardware manager and run "dxdiag" but still no luck. I'll wait till Monday to take the casing apart as it's a ***** to do so, and I'd rather only do it once. I'll check when I put in teh sound card.

[karajorma]

We had two years or so with XP and I never heard of this problem and now we've 5-6 cases of it appearing. Sounds like it's not XP itself that's the problem but either a new driver or an update to me.

Just out of interest has your ETS bar also stopped working? The two problems often occured together.

[Lutz]

Sorry, whats the ETS bar?

[karajorma]

The bar that allows you to alter the engine, guns and shield recharge settings.

[Lutz]

That's working fine that is. When I was testing it in XP (To see if the sound fixed it sefl) I had no burners, so I dumped most of my energy into my engines.

[hobnob1978]

Odd.

Ive downloaded DX9.0b last week and no problems
got the 43.45 drivers from vid and the lastest sound card drivers from creative.

downloaded all the sys patches that are critical for winXP.

Don`t have this problem I`m afraid. Umm has your copy of FS2 been patched? I know there have been problems of varying types with the unpatched version on XP.

[Lutz]

I've tried all compatability modes both patched (v1.20) and unpatched (V1.00) and all my windows updates are, erm, up to date. I'm running Direct X9 naturally.