On Tue, Jan 29, 2002 at 12:33:30AM -0500, Oleksandr Moskalenko wrote: > * [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 10:25:24PM -0600, Corey Halpin wrote: > > > I'm using the following hardware: Pentium-II, 320M RAM. Intel 440LX > > > AGP > > > chipset. Matrox g400. > > > When I run quake 3, it runs for a few minutes, and then locks X such > > > that I > > > can't switch consoles. The video freezes where it was, and the sound > > > starts > > > looping on itself. I can ssh in. If I kill X, it doesn't save the > > > console. > > > Does anyone have an install of Quake III that doesn't do this? > > > > Try switching off sound. It doesn't lock anymore, right! > > > > Its the sound drivers DMA issues or something. > > > > Had this problem for a while, upgraded video cards, everything. Then found > > out it was sound card. I have an el cheapo by the way. > > > > Maybe a high quality sound card would work better > > > > Crispin > > > Nope, SBLive value barfs in situations like this regularly. For example, > on quake2 any "battle" scene slows down to an unusable level with sound > becoming raspy and jerky and FPS getting to 2 or 3. This is a > combination of a Celeron-800/Matrox G400 32Mb/SBLive. > > And that card's drivers were supposed to be very good...
Yeh. Its very dissapointing. Here Ive got a PIII-800, a GeForce 3 and a cheap pnp soundcard :( and I can play blistering speed Q3 but only in complete silence! Crispin