SoundBlaster Live! Value Stuttering

[razor_ro]

I have a problem with my Creative Soundblaster Live! Value card, everytime i play Soldier of Fortune II it stutters, and its every 10 secs, i can barely play the game with that annoying stuttering happening, i tried different drivers and no luck, anyone know what the problem could be??? thx in advance

RaZoR

AMD Athlon XP +1700
MSI ULTRA KT3
MSI GEFORCE 4 TI 4200 128MB
60gig 7200rpm MAXTOR ATA133
256MMB KINGSTON PC2700
Creative Labs Soundblaster Live! Value
Plextor 16/10/40
Matshita 50x CDROM

 

[Hipster Doofus]

Have you tried turning off background applications? Might give you some needed ram back.

 

[jonocainuk]

turn off directsound (if sof2 uses it)

or turn quality to low/medium

 

[razor_ro]

This is what i tried....

I fooled around with sound settings like EAX and directsound and nothing happpened, but i did find the problem, i went to TEXTURE QUALITY and turned it to HIGH instead of VERY HIGH and the game runs perfect...... BUT when i had my old Gf2 MX 400 64mb i could run at VERY high no problem but i had 512MB of RAM.... now i only have one stick of 256 pc2700 (waiting for my other stick still )..... and yes i did turn off all the backgrounds too, still nothing....

RaZoR

 

[gilerzz]

You can try George E. Breese PCI Latency Patch http://www.networking.tzo.com/net/software/
Could solve SB Live related problems and as for SOF2 i did not encountered any stuttering at all even played around with the sound options (DX Sound & EAX).