On Wed, 25 Jun 2003 15:28:37 GMT, Whilst playing Smegball with the
scutters "Derek Wildstar" wrote :
"Strontium" wrote in message
...
This is an interesting thread. I observed the same startup sound
'stuttering' both with an AMD based system and a wIntel based system.
Same
video card (Asus V8200 pure), same drivers (anything later than 41.09's),
same DX (9.0a), same soundcard (cheezy EQ/CL PCI128). My AMD-based mobo
was
using the VIA northbridge. My wIntel board is using the wIntel
northbridge.
I can't see this as being a chipset issue, as some others have mentioned
in
this thread. As for startup progs, it's quite possible that the NVidia
startup progs may have contributed. I never investigated as I was just
mainly annoyed by that stutter and went back to the 41.09's. I've always
used the default drivers, that come with XP, for the PCI128 card. There
are
no startup progs involved with that driver.
You are right in that the problem is not manifest to VIA, no chipsets are
immune. However, the symptom, in VIA chipsets, displays itself rather
obviously, stuttering.
The real test is going to be how well the creative drivers behave over time
with the nforce unified drivers in nforce based boards. Since nvidia has
complete control over how their bus behaves, it should be able to tame the
unruly creative drivers. At least, that's what I hope will happen.
Turning on the PC and having a bug play your startup sound at max volume at
3am, doesn't contribute to a mellow Audigy experience. 
I'm glad to say that after ditching a Via chip set board a couple of
years ago and returning to a cheap and cheerful SIS chip set board
I've never had a sound problem with a Creative PCI 128 or a 5.1 card
that I couldn't fix :O)
Also I have from time to time run them as dual card setup(not easy)
and the PCI 128 cheapy is still clearer IMHO and CL released some
updated drivers and software that gave it hardware Bass and Treble and
recording abilities but they were hard to find on the Creative site :/
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