Problems with sound

[Clart]

playing mp3's is fine, but when i play a wav file the music distorts and goes all crackly?

 

[Alan]

Could be poor quality files mate.....could also be the player your using, winamp, media player etc?

 

[wozzaa]

This on all wavs? or only ones encoded in a certain way?

 

[Clart]

nah it aint that, if i reboot the PC its ok. I've reinstalled drivers, but it still does it after a while

 

[Darren S]

You use a Creative Labs soundcard, Clart?

D.

 

[Griff]

Is the soundcard in the closest pci slot to the 6800?

 

[Clart]

its onboard sound nvidia nforce chipset i think

 

[Darren S]

its onboard sound nvidia nforce chipset i think

Ah, could it be an nForce 2 chipset? The standard audio drivers that come as part of the nForce package work fine - even on the latest stuff. I think it's version 5.10 dating back to the tail-end of 2004.

However, they did release an additional audio update on nVidia's website for the nForce 2 chipsets. When I tried it with my MSI mobo, it went a little apeshit. I do remember crackling sounds as being a major issue at the time.

Everytime I've reformatted the PC since, I've just stuck with the audio drivers that come with the 5.10 package alone.

D.