EZ_Cormath
07-03-02, 06:54 AM
Check your Sound Card
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Aureal based soundcards are not supported. The Aureal company went out of business and sold their assets. No one has written updated drivers to support these chipsets. Try disabling the sound drivers and see if the game will load normally to check if this is your problem.
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The designer and driver developer for this chip, Aureal, has ceased to exist. Creative Technology announced on September 21, 2000 that they would buy substantially all of the assets of Aureal Semiconductor, Inc., including patents, trademarks and other intellectual property. Creative Labs Craig McHugh last year said in an interview done by MaximumPC made it clear that Creative only bought the intellectual property not the liability. That is they will not sell, support or develop drivers for Aureal products. Quite similar to the deal between Nvidia and 3dfx.
As VideoLogic says the current Win9x drivers works well with most games that support DS3D or A3D. However the EAX 1.0 support is limited (only works well with some games) and there is no support for EAX 2.0. It's also doubtful how it will work with DS3D games that take advantage of new features in future versions of DirectX. The Windows 2000 WDM drivers are beta form and cause problem on many systems but at least on some systems they work fairly well for DS3D and A3D 1.0 games while A3D 2.0 support is more limited. The drivers also lacks EAX 1.0 support. If you use WindowsME we suggest you try the VXD drivers and not the WDM drivers.
------------------ Tamroc Shamroc,
Druid of Tunare,
Scholar of Justice League of Norrath
Profile on: Magelo and Allakhzam
Current wishlistCormath Loremaster,
Enchanter of Tunare,
Retired of Justice League of Norrath
Profile on: Magelo and Allakhzam"Efficiency thwarts procrastination" ~Richard FunderburkEdited by: Cormath at: 7/3/02 7:56:19 am
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Aureal based soundcards are not supported. The Aureal company went out of business and sold their assets. No one has written updated drivers to support these chipsets. Try disabling the sound drivers and see if the game will load normally to check if this is your problem.
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Quote
The designer and driver developer for this chip, Aureal, has ceased to exist. Creative Technology announced on September 21, 2000 that they would buy substantially all of the assets of Aureal Semiconductor, Inc., including patents, trademarks and other intellectual property. Creative Labs Craig McHugh last year said in an interview done by MaximumPC made it clear that Creative only bought the intellectual property not the liability. That is they will not sell, support or develop drivers for Aureal products. Quite similar to the deal between Nvidia and 3dfx.
As VideoLogic says the current Win9x drivers works well with most games that support DS3D or A3D. However the EAX 1.0 support is limited (only works well with some games) and there is no support for EAX 2.0. It's also doubtful how it will work with DS3D games that take advantage of new features in future versions of DirectX. The Windows 2000 WDM drivers are beta form and cause problem on many systems but at least on some systems they work fairly well for DS3D and A3D 1.0 games while A3D 2.0 support is more limited. The drivers also lacks EAX 1.0 support. If you use WindowsME we suggest you try the VXD drivers and not the WDM drivers.
------------------ Tamroc Shamroc,
Druid of Tunare,
Scholar of Justice League of Norrath
Profile on: Magelo and Allakhzam
Current wishlistCormath Loremaster,
Enchanter of Tunare,
Retired of Justice League of Norrath
Profile on: Magelo and Allakhzam"Efficiency thwarts procrastination" ~Richard FunderburkEdited by: Cormath at: 7/3/02 7:56:19 am