SB Live! & DTS2500 (HELP!!!)

[drizzle]

Last night I just got my new sound system stuff in. It's the X-Gamer Live! card along with the DTT2500 Home Theatre System 5.1.
I've got everything hooked up, and all the drivers/software for the card is installed. When I go to play UT I change the Live! software to 'Games - EAX' and then I start UT.

My problem -When I enable 'Surround Sound' I get sound distortions. At times the bass completely drops out. Also, for some reason when picking up items (like vials, ammo, etc) the sound that UT makes when you pick them up is seriously too loud!!! I've tried adjusting the control knobs on the panel. If I enable the 'Use 3D Hardware' for sound, it seems that the game suffers a performance hit and isn't nearly as smooth as without it.

The specs:

Athlon 700Mhz
256MB RAM
MS K7-Pro
Maxtor 20.4GB
Voodoo3 3000
SB Live! X-Gamer

Any tips on what I should check out first? I'm quite lost here. I have the 'retail cd' drivers installed for the SB Live!. If both options are disabled, the sound is fine...but with the Surrond Sound option not checked I'm sure that I'm not getting the quality I should be.

[This message has been edited by drizzle (edited 05-26-2000).]

[FrozenLiquidity]

drizzle,
you should notice a performace drop when you enable "use 3d hardware" for sound. I don't think that you should use the liveware to set up UT. Liveware is pretty much useless for this sorta thing. Make sure that your sound system is set up correctly, check the multimedia control panel. I'll be back with more info ASAP.

I have a SBLive value, when I play UT it worked fine

FrozenLiquidity

BTW, this is not the right forum for this type of problem. http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif

[drizzle]

Thanks for the post. I got it working. It was indeed a problem with liveware and the version of EAX that I was using. I downloaded & installed the latest version of liveware and all is good now in UT land. Also, there is no longer a performance hit with 'Use 3D Hardware'. Once again, thanx for the post.

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[This message has been edited by drizzle (edited 05-26-2000).]