Sound problem - crashes the OS

[WoRkZ]

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Hi there people!


First off, I know I'm not cool. I'm no gamer... I'm just beginning to play FPS games (I can hear you guys sigh already), so please bear with me. Some patience might be required. I'm an IT tech though... this might help a bit.


Here's the problem: Whenever I start a BF2 game, it launches fine, then hangs a couple of times and comes back, then hangs one final time... and the PC reboots! Sounds like hardware, uh?

Now, I've managed to isolate the triggering factor: Any type of weapons firing will cause this bug. I'm thinking there might be a bug associated with the way these sounds are produced by my specific audio adapter... but it's only a theory and I don't know enough about games to use this to my advantage anyway.


Every driver on this machine is up to date and I've tried the modded Catalyst driver for good measure. No effect on my problem.


Here's my setup (please don't laugh):

HP xw8000 workstation
Single Xeon 3.06 CPU
1GB of 533Mhz RAM
ATI Radeon 9250 with 256MB of DDR RAM
SoundBlaster Audigy 4 soundcard
Windows XP SP2


Thank you for any help you can provide! :) I'd really like to play this game... it looks great.

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[IDontDoWeddings]

Re: Sound problem - crashes the OS

Are you overclocking at all?

Have you added a bunch of new fans or something that's sucking more power than your PSU can handle recently?

[WoRkZ]

Re: Sound problem - crashes the OS

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IDontDoWeddings, thanks for your reply.



The system as been running in the same configuration for a while now. Remember that the xw8000 is built as a small business server... the PSU is certainly not the issue here (I should be able to add a couple more hard drives and 3 or 4 adapters in there without any issues). And as I said, the problem is clearly triggered by specific sounds in the game... which has me scratching my head. I can only rely on the gaming community on this one... it's clearly a specific gaming problem.

BTW: Other games I recently installed (again, some of you will laugh their arse off) like Rainbow 6: Lockdown are running fine... so what's so different about BF2??? Is it a technology issue? Does the game use some advanced sound effects that my system cannot handle? Are there special drivers (appart from the latest official drivers from Creative) that would cure this problem?

Thanks for your help!

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[=DoG=Tango7]

Re: Sound problem - crashes the OS

The problem may be that BF2 will eat up about 1 gig of RAM without too much problem. Go for at least 2 gig if you can.

The other is that BF2 was designed to work best with Nvidia graphic cards. I recently switched from an ATI Radeon 9800 Pro to an Nvidia 7600 GT in an attempt to solve some of my graphical woes. Try updating the ATI drivers and see if that makes a difference.

[lil_jimmy_norton]

Re: Sound problem - crashes the OS

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Hi there people!


First off, I know I'm not cool. I'm no gamer... I'm just beginning to play FPS games (I can hear you guys sigh already), so please bear with me. Some patience might be required. I'm an IT tech though... this might help a bit.


Here's the problem: Whenever I start a BF2 game, it launches fine, then hangs a couple of times and comes back, then hangs one final time... and the PC reboots! Sounds like hardware, uh?

Now, I've managed to isolate the triggering factor: Any type of weapons firing will cause this bug. I'm thinking there might be a bug associated with the way these sounds are produced by my specific audio adapter... but it's only a theory and I don't know enough about games to use this to my advantage anyway.


Every driver on this machine is up to date and I've tried the modded Catalyst driver for good measure. No effect on my problem.


Here's my setup (please don't laugh):

HP xw8000 workstation
Single Xeon 3.06 CPU
1GB of 533Mhz RAM
ATI Radeon 9250 with 256MB of DDR RAM
SoundBlaster Audigy 4 soundcard
Windows XP SP2


Thank you for any help you can provide! :) I'd really like to play this game... it looks great.

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Waht are you sound settings on?