CrunchSA Posted February 6, 2001 Share Posted February 6, 2001 The Hercules Game Theater XP is supposed to have excellent Win2K support. As a matter of fact, I'm expecting mime to be delivered today. I'll post my thoughts after I've had an opportunity to give it a good workout. Inthe meantime, you can check out a review at http://firingsquad.gamers.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
calbruc Posted February 6, 2001 Share Posted February 6, 2001 Iamyourzero: I think this problem stems from the newer version of Winamp, not you OS, mobo, etc. I had a similiar problem (the skipping ahead, not the scratces and pops) and it turned out that the version of Winamp I had (2.71) had a problem with files encoded with a certain codec. My advice: a.) Comb Winamp.com's message board and try to find a patch (that's what I did and it works fine now). b.) Try to find an older version of Winamp and see if that corrects the problem. c.) Use Sonique. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WildMutant Posted February 9, 2001 Share Posted February 9, 2001 quote: Originally posted by radad: did you use the liveware with w2k, it known to have lots of problems. Just use the w2k drivers. I don't use winamp anymore because of the above problems under win2k. I now use MS mediaplayer and sounds great...You may want to try it... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WildMutant Posted February 9, 2001 Share Posted February 9, 2001 I now use Win2k solely for everything. Overall it is more stable but occationally I do get the dreaded BSD. It plays all the current games on the market except for EA sports games...but, I hear there is a crack for that...I have the live plat. and use Microsoft mediaplayer and sounds great...Overall, I'm a happy...system: homemade A7v/ AMD 1ghz tbird/256 p-133/scsi cheetah hd/adaptec 160 UW scsi/sony 19" monitor/Plextor cdr/klipsch... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gondor Posted February 9, 2001 Share Posted February 9, 2001 Alright, a couple things for you guys havin probs in WIN2K... First off, if you are runnin some of the quicker AMD chips, goto their website and download the registry patch for large page files, seems to clean things up a bit with skipping and jumping in applications in general. http://www.amd.com/products/cpg/athlon-duron/amd_win2k_patch.html Also, like someone else mentioned, it could just be the version of winamp, if you can get your hands on others, try them out. And ya know, I was gonna say something else, but I have plum forgotten what I was gonna say, so if I think of it, I'll post again Sorry guys Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gondor Posted February 9, 2001 Share Posted February 9, 2001 Oh, and BTW, Sam_D you cannot run VMWare on Win9x/ME machines that I am aware of, it was programmed for NT architecture Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
k27-R Posted February 9, 2001 Share Posted February 9, 2001 the only problem that i have win win2k and sblive is that i get no sound of from my cd player (digital). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrunchSA Posted February 9, 2001 Share Posted February 9, 2001 I installed my new GameTheater XP last night. Souded pretty good...after I rebuilt my PC. I uninstalled the drivers for my MX300 and shut down to change out the hardware. When I tried to boot back up...nothing. Win2K froze about 50% through the second progress indicator that pops up. Funny, same thing happened when I tried to install my AIW Radeon. Oh well, seems to be working great now. Much more testing to do though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quasi Posted February 10, 2001 Share Posted February 10, 2001 No sound out of a digital CD player? No Problem! go tt the system properties Box (right click 'my computer' and properties, or winkey+break) Go to the Hardware Tab Click on device manager Open the cd-rom tab Click on your drive and hit properties Go to the properties tab Enable digital audio for that CD-Rom Enjoy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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