Anyone still using a Vortex2 card?

Is anyone still using a Vortex2 sound card? I can't get the crackling to go away in NR2002, and I've got a Diamond MX300 gathering dust in the closet. I'm wondering if it's worth trying out again in XP. I know the Turtle Beach Santa Cruz is the preferred SB Live/Audigy alternative, but I don't have $61 at the moment in time to spend on one.

I have the Aueal Vortex 2 oem...probably on par with the Aureal 1500. Been using the 2048 drivers for two or 3 years. As the Brits say..."No Worries" dave henrie "doubleu" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:%Nzb8.749$[email hidden]... > Is anyone still using a Vortex2 sound card? I can't get the crackling togo

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> away in NR2002, and I've got a Diamond MX300 gathering dust in the closet. > I'm wondering if it's worth trying out again in XP. > > I know the Turtle Beach Santa Cruz is the preferred SB Live/Audigy > alternative, but I don't have $61 at the moment in time to spend on one. > >

"Dave Henrie" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:LREb8.2544$[email hidden]... > I have the Aueal Vortex 2 oem...probably on par with the Aureal1500. > Been using the 2048 drivers for two or 3 years. As the Britssay..."No > Worries" > dave henrie > "doubleu" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > news:%Nzb8.749$[email hidden]... > > Is anyone still using a Vortex2 sound card? I can't get thecrackling to > go > > away in NR2002, and I've got a Diamond MX300 gathering dust in thecloset. > > I'm wondering if it's worth trying out again in XP. > > > > I know the Turtle Beach Santa Cruz is the preferred SB Live/Audigy > > alternative, but I don't have $61 at the moment in time to spendon one. > > > > > > I thought the Aussies said "no worries"... oh well. I'd be using my Vortex2 rather than my SBLive since I've always gotten better performance out of it, but it doesn't tend to work too well in XP and I can't get my DSL modem to work in Win98. Tradeoffs... -- ------------------ Morgan V. Wooten [email hidden] Posted Via Usenet.com Premium Usenet Newsgroup Services ---------------------------------------------------------- ** SPEED ** RETENTION ** COMPLETION ** ANONYMITY ** ---------------------------------------------------------- http://www.usenet.com

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> I thought the Aussies said "no worries"... oh well. > > I'd be using my Vortex2 rather than my SBLive since I've always gotten > better performance out of it, but it doesn't tend to work too well in > XP and I can't get my DSL modem to work in Win98. Tradeoffs... > ------------------ > Morgan V. Wooten

Dang that has to be frustrating. How does the DSL connect to your system? With a NIC card or with USB? The original windows98 didn't have very good USB support, even with a USB patch. 98se handles USB much better. If it's connected via a NIC card, I can't explain why it shouldn't be working. dave henrie

"Dave Henrie" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:bYQb8.3383$Ot2.243104@sccrnsc01... > "Morgan V. Wooten"> > > I thought the Aussies said "no worries"... oh well. > > > > I'd be using my Vortex2 rather than my SBLive since I've alwaysgotten > > better performance out of it, but it doesn't tend to work too wellin > > XP and I can't get my DSL modem to work in Win98. Tradeoffs... > > ------------------ > > Morgan V. Wooten > > Dang that has to be frustrating. How does the DSL connect toyour > system? With a NIC card or with USB? > The original windows98 didn't have very good USB support, even witha USB > patch. 98se handles USB much better. If it's connected via a NICcard, I > can't explain why it shouldn't be working. > dave henrie > > No, it's a dinky internal PCI modem. I'd like to get an external modem in the future, but my budget's too tight right now. -- ------------------ Morgan V. Wooten [email hidden] Posted Via Usenet.com Premium Usenet Newsgroup Services ---------------------------------------------------------- ** SPEED ** RETENTION ** COMPLETION ** ANONYMITY ** ---------------------------------------------------------- http://www.usenet.com

OK, my chance to repay all the help I get from this board. I got the infamouse Vortex 2 cards and I seem able to run 2002 ok most of the time, my system is p3 850, Hercules Geforce2 MX (before the 2 chioces) in a BX6 r2 motherboard Running XP, and another (wife's) with p3 700 in Abit BH6 r1.1 with a voodoo5 card waiting for network card before I update this one to XP (running 98se). these were good machines back when GPL was in its heyday, course they only had slot 1 p2 450's in them back then. got questions? Ill try and help. there is a good site for vortex stuff. VORTEX OF SOUND... http://www.vortexofsound.com/ "Morgan V. Wooten" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:3c6ff54b$[email hidden]... > "Dave Henrie" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > news:bYQb8.3383$Ot2.243104@sccrnsc01... > > "Morgan V. Wooten"> > > > I thought the Aussies said "no worries"... oh well.SNIP

In article <bKkc8.1893$[email hidden]>, "Sting32" <[email hidden]> writes: >got questions? Ill try and help. there is a good site for vortex stuff. >VORTEX OF SOUND... >http://www.vortexofsound.com/ Yeah, I've got a question, last time I asked it here, I got no help. I have a Diamond Monster Sound MX300 running on Windows 98. When I originally got Roger Wilco, I had a very weak mike output and someone told me a value to change in Windows Registry to bring it up to an acceptable level. Now I've re-installed Windows, and can't for the life of me figure out how to get it back to a decent level. Got any ideas? Don McCorkle

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> Yeah, I've got a question, last time I asked it here, I got no help. > I have a Diamond Monster Sound MX300 running on Windows 98. When I > originally got Roger Wilco, I had a very weak mike output and someone > told me a value to change in Windows Registry to bring it up to an > acceptable level. Now I've re-installed Windows, and can't for the > life of me figure out how to get it back to a decent level. Got any > ideas?> ?

I have an MX300 and did not have that problem. But I'll be interested in the registry tweek just the same.

In article <[email hidden]>, [email hidden] (Woodie 83) writes: >Yeah, I've got a question, last time I asked it here, I got no help. That didn't sound right. A couple of very nice people gave suggestions, but nothing I hadn't already tried. Don McCorkle

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> I got the infamouse Vortex 2 cards and I seem able to run 2002 ok most >of the time, my system is p3 850, Hercules Geforce2 MX (before the 2 >chioces) in a BX6 r2 motherboard Running XP, and another (wife's) with p3 >700 in Abit BH6 r1.1 with a voodoo5 card waiting for network card before I >update this one to XP (running 98se). these were good machines back when >GPL was in its heyday, course they only had slot 1 p2 450's in them back >then. > >got questions? Ill try and help. there is a good site for vortex stuff. >VORTEX OF SOUND... >http://www.vortexofsound.com/

Ok, here's the situation: the sound works nearly perfectly nearly 95% of the time. Quake, Grand Prix Legends, Tomb Raider, etc. all run fine. MP3s, streaming audio, etc. all work fine. The only problem comes to Nascar 4 (demo) and Nascar 2002 (demo). All the sounds work fine except for the in-car engine sound. I can hear the other cars' engines, my own skids, gearshifts, etc. All the sounds are there during replays, just no engine sound while running. I have 3d audio disabled and 8 max sounds selected. I even tried putting the suggested audio settings in the core.ini. What else can I do? Abit KT7 /w latest BIOS +Duron 650@800Mhz 320 MB SDRAM 10 GB disk space MSI Starforce Geforce2 Pro Turtle Beach Montego2 (Vortex2) Windowz 2000 SP2 Thanks!

turn up max sounds see what ya get then turn it back down.......... "Wingman" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:Hsyh8.4435$[email hidden]...

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| > I got the infamouse Vortex 2 cards and I seem able to run 2002 ok most | >of the time, my system is p3 850, Hercules Geforce2 MX (before the 2 | >chioces) in a BX6 r2 motherboard Running XP, and another (wife's) with p3 | >700 in Abit BH6 r1.1 with a voodoo5 card waiting for network card before I | >update this one to XP (running 98se). these were good machines back when | >GPL was in its heyday, course they only had slot 1 p2 450's in them back | >then. | > | >got questions? Ill try and help. there is a good site for vortex stuff. | >VORTEX OF SOUND... | >http://www.vortexofsound.com/ | | Ok, here's the situation: the sound works nearly perfectly nearly 95% of the | time. Quake, Grand Prix Legends, Tomb Raider, etc. all run fine. MP3s, | streaming audio, etc. all work fine. The only problem comes to Nascar 4 (demo) | and Nascar 2002 (demo). All the sounds work fine except for the in-car engine | sound. I can hear the other cars' engines, my own skids, gearshifts, etc. All | the sounds are there during replays, just no engine sound while running. I | have 3d audio disabled and 8 max sounds selected. I even tried putting the | suggested audio settings in the core.ini. What else can I do? | | Abit KT7 /w latest BIOS +Duron 650@800Mhz | 320 MB SDRAM | 10 GB disk space | MSI Starforce Geforce2 Pro | Turtle Beach Montego2 (Vortex2) | Windowz 2000 SP2 | | Thanks! | |

"Wingman" > Ok, here's the situation: the sound works nearly perfectly nearly 95% ofthe > time. Quake, Grand Prix Legends, Tomb Raider, etc. all run fine. MP3s, > streaming audio, etc. all work fine. The only problem comes to Nascar 4(demo) > and Nascar 2002 (demo). All the sounds work fine except for the in-carengine > sound. I can hear the other cars' engines, my own skids, gearshifts, etc.All > the sounds are there during replays, just no engine sound while running.I > have 3d audio disabled and 8 max sounds selected. I even tried puttingthe

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> suggested audio settings in the core.ini. What else can I do? > > Abit KT7 /w latest BIOS +Duron 650@800Mhz > 320 MB SDRAM > 10 GB disk space > MSI Starforce Geforce2 Pro > Turtle Beach Montego2 (Vortex2) > Windowz 2000 SP2 > > Thanks! > >

some folk were having the no engine sound with vortex 2 only while in 3d sound.... i didn't have that problem however. a good place to go and find info on yr rig is http://bbs.pcstats.com/viahardware/categories.cfm?catid=19&zb=7025566 this particular section is where you can read about george breese's latency patch which now has specific tweaks for the vortex 2. there are other sections on audio.. great site for ya if you have via and vortex 2.... another vortex 2 site.... http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/chris.day/vortex.html chris is also helpful. i now have santa cruz in my main rig and put the v2 back into my amd2 k-6 333@375 running win 98. hope this helps

Wow, I had completely lost this thread... That is my system I spec'd out there at 1st, and I got to tell you for the 1st week or so I had absolutely no problems with IN car view and engine sounds... HOWEVER since way back when I posted about "all is well", I have been battling the exact same problem you are! I haven't found anything to fix it yet either... Something in XP seems to be deciding to change shit in my system! I had not played with anymore settings when it was working, but for some reason in the device manager I have 2 new entries in where you find the soundcard... (unfortunately Im at work and I cant remember what they are but something pertaining to "basic sound compatibility device") and when I use the icon in the tray to adjust my speaker volume, the PC speaker (inside the case) beeps instead of the default sound emanating through the stereo speaker hooked to soundcard (that usually dings or whatever so you can tell the change in volume). This is really freaking me out, and so I'm prolly gonna find new cards.... as I finally give up. My work around has been to adjust the sound settings just before going into a race... usually switch 3d on exit the options then go back in and 3d off.... then I would have incar sounds. but when it doesn't take I use the roof cam, because you cant get back in when race starts ya know. I did find it beneficial one time at dega, that I couldn't hear my engine, and I had opponents sound down low, to actually listen to the tires scrub/grip... did that for 5 laps or so in a race and totally re-did my racing line... but I think the game sux without some feedback from the engine, like "is it spinning the tires", you can usually tell by the engine how well it is pulling, or slipping out of the corners, before you see it, or even hear the tires letting go of the grip. "Wingman" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:Hsyh8.4435$[email hidden]... > > I got the infamouse Vortex 2 cards and I seem able to run 2002 okmost > >of the time, my system is p3 850, Hercules Geforce2 MX (before the 2 > >chioces) in a BX6 r2 motherboard Running XP, and another (wife's) with p3 > >700 in Abit BH6 r1.1 with a voodoo5 card waiting for network card beforeI

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> >update this one to XP (running 98se). these were good machines back when > >GPL was in its heyday, course they only had slot 1 p2 450's in them back > >then. > > > >got questions? Ill try and help. there is a good site for vortex stuff. > >VORTEX OF SOUND... > >http://www.vortexofsound.com/ > > Ok, here's the situation: the sound works nearly perfectly nearly 95% of

the > time. Quake, Grand Prix Legends, Tomb Raider, etc. all run fine. MP3s, > streaming audio, etc. all work fine. The only problem comes to Nascar 4(demo) > and Nascar 2002 (demo). All the sounds work fine except for the in-carengine > sound. I can hear the other cars' engines, my own skids, gearshifts, etc.All > the sounds are there during replays, just no engine sound while running.I > have 3d audio disabled and 8 max sounds selected. I even tried puttingthe

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> suggested audio settings in the core.ini. What else can I do? > > Abit KT7 /w latest BIOS +Duron 650@800Mhz > 320 MB SDRAM > 10 GB disk space > MSI Starforce Geforce2 Pro > Turtle Beach Montego2 (Vortex2) > Windowz 2000 SP2 > > Thanks! >

>GPL was in its heyday, course they only had slot 1 p2 450's in them back >then. Grand Prix Legends isn't still in it's heyday? With the new Honda coming out and awesome new cars from GPLEA as well as 16-bit track textures, it's as beautiful as ever. Perhaps I should get a new Athlon XP and motherboard. Maybe that will cure my N2002 sound problems! :)

Wingman wrote... > > <snip> > Grand Prix Legends isn't still in it's heyday? With the new > Honda coming out and awesome new cars from GPLEA as well as > 16-bit track textures, it's as beautiful as ever. Perhaps I > should get a new Athlon XP and motherboard. > Maybe that will cure my N2002 sound problems! :) Taking posession of such a system this week... will let you know how it pans out. Jan. =---