Gaz,
If I had any guess, I would say it was your ram. YOu know why? AGP
takes up system memory, try reducing that in the bios. 16mb or less of agp
memory. Also VIA chipset motherboards are VERY unstable with AGP cards,
this can be a BIG problem. I would do a clean load of windows with the
drivers and everything.
I can definitly say that it is NOT the emulation drivers. Those
drivers are ONLY loaded when you run a dos program, such as Doom or dos
Quake. As far as loading stuff into UMB, that matters little anymore since
the windows VMM drivers and other memory drivers do all of that stuff now.
Its not DirectX emultation your doing. Directx is a port for different
multimedia drivers. It is a WHOLE driver set, and game creaters just have
to write DirectX calls instead of whole driver sets for different sound
cards. It makes things 10x easier to program...I know because I do that
too. YOu do not need to emulate DirectX, especially since you have a Sound
Blaster Live!, that is one of the best sound cards for DirectX. I have dos
compat drivers loaded and my system is totally fine, even when I play doom.
Those drivers USED to be bad for a computer, now they are totally fine. All
it does is make your sound card look like a SB16 through software. And that
software takes up VERY little resources.
Shawn
Shawn M. Pierce
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