M-Audio and problem with WoW

[nowotnik]

Hi guys,

I'm new here and glad I found this forum.
I have an irritating problem with my M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card.
90% of the time I use my PC for music recording and MIDI yet 10% I'm crazy about World of Warcraft ;) ...
Till yesterday I was using ages old SB Live! which gave me decent gaming experience and ...... moderately/average recording (yet I produced some decent music on it)

After few hurdles of switching my cubase/nuando environment to accept new card I decided to chillout in WoW for a while and thats when I noticed cracks and pops in the sound especially when the action on screen happened to swell a bit.

I tried to decrease video and sound performance form within the game and fiddle with DMA buffer but no help.

Any ideas guys??

cheers
Eol

[tweakboy]

Shouldn't happen. Make sure to get their latest driver whetever be Vista or W7 ,, gl

[tweakboy]

Have you gone to m-audio site and checked for new drivers ?? Should sort you out!

[ratbuddy]

Hi guys,

I'm new here and glad I found this forum.
I have an irritating problem with my M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card.
90% of the time I use my PC for music recording and MIDI yet 10% I'm crazy about World of Warcraft ;) ...
Till yesterday I was using ages old SB Live! which gave me decent gaming experience and ...... moderately/average recording (yet I produced some decent music on it)

After few hurdles of switching my cubase/nuando environment to accept new card I decided to chillout in WoW for a while and thats when I noticed cracks and pops in the sound especially when the action on screen happened to swell a bit.

I tried to decrease video and sound performance form within the game and fiddle with DMA buffer but no help.

Any ideas guys??

cheers
Eol

What are the rest of the system specs? CPU/mobo/etc..

edit: Oh and.. Uhmm, make sure you pet tweakboy on the way through ;)

[four4875]

have you tried newest drivers from web site? both video and audio. I don't know anything about m-audio or any issues they have had, but sometimes drivers can account for things like that.

Also, not sure what kind of power supply you have, but if it were to a little noisy (electrical noise, not audible) when under load, like while playing wow, it could be passed through the audio hardware to the speakers. one suggestion to help with noise incurred would be to set the sound card's output to a high level and the speakers lower, that way the wanted sounds are louder relative to the noise that's getting in, if in fact the noise is coming from an outside source and not being created by software somehow.

also, if it is electrical noise moving to a different pci slot may help as well.

I guess I have electrical noise on my mind, been readin bout interferance issues in a machine environment with high power servo motors in the mix. there's a pretty good chance that i'm nowhere near the root of the problem, but its thoughts.

edit: wow, there was a couple posts in the time i was typing

[nowotnik]

Hey thx for your replies guys.


Im heading to their www to check out drivers.
My PC spec are somewhat average - nothing fancy but not an antique yet ;)

2.6 ghz amd, nvidia 7800, 2gb ram.

BRB
:))

P.

[ratbuddy]

Hey thx for your replies guys.


Im heading to their www to check out drivers.
My PC spec are somewhat average - nothing fancy but not an antique yet ;)

2.6 ghz amd, nvidia 7800, 2gb ram.

BRB
:))

P.

Do ya know which exact motherboard it is?

[nowotnik]

OK. Got newest drivers from M-Audio (new control panel looks heaps better) but problem persist :( ...crackling and random popping during game-play (Action bits so I assume it has something to do with increase of CPU intake)...

MY motherboard is Gigabyte gak8vm800 (Got newest drivers for via chipset as well).

Something tells me that this might not be a matter of drivers since my old Live! was running on drivers released by creative back in 2004 I think and there was no problem at all.

I never used EAX so I don't think that might be an option either ....

I think I'm running out of ideas :((

P.

[ratbuddy]

Heh, I'd call it an antique for sure. 754 is several generations old. It also has a Via chipset which is never a good idea :p

I'd just spring the $200 (or less!) for a modern mobo, processor, and RAM. Tack on $40ish for a replacement video card if that one is AGP, I forgot to check what kind of slot that mobo has but kinda suspect it might be.