Turtle Beach soundcard problem! Anyone have a TB card?

[Ronn_Bman]

Fortunately this isn't my problem , but I convinced a friend to buy NWN, and he couldn't get it to run.

At the configuration scan, it complained that his processor wasn't fast enough. Minimum is PII 450, and his is a PIII 450, but the configuration screen lists it as a 448. It doesn't say it won't run it; it just recommends the lowest settings.

After a reinstall or two and upgrading video cards (I gave him my old GeForce 2 MX400) and drivers, one of the config scan messages said something about Open GL.

Finally, someone suggested disabling the sound card. That solved the problem and the game runs fine.

He knows he needs an upgraded driver for his TB card, but he's had a hard time finding drivers for it.

So is anyone using an older TB card with NWN? More important, does anyone know of a specific site for TB drivers? He's been through lots of the "find your driver here" sites, but not much luck.

He's probably going to get a new card, but he'd love to solve the problem with a driver.

[ 09-30-2002, 11:11 AM: Message edited by: Ronn_Bman ]

[Ronn_Bman]

Come on now, surely someone here is vacationing at Turtle Beach [img]smile.gif[/img]

[WillowIX]

Which card is he using? Here´s one site.

[Ronn_Bman]

He has a Montego that came as OEM from Dell. Unfortunately, the link above tells those card owners to contact Dell about drivers. His machine is about 4 years old, and they haven't been much help.

Thanks for trying [img]smile.gif[/img]

[Mack_Attack]

Originally posted by Ronn_Bman: Come on now, surely someone here is vacationing at Turtle Beach [img]smile.gif[/img]

I also run turtle beach but I do not yet have NWM. I will have it in about a week. But I am sure by then the problem will be solved. I just hope it is something that will not happen to me.

I hope your friend gets it worked out. I will let you know if I have any problems and any solutions I find.

[Ronn_Bman]

Originally posted by Mack_Attack: I also run turtle beach but I do not yet have NWM. I will have it in about a week. But I am sure by then the problem will be solved. I just hope it is something that will not happen to me. I hope your friend gets it worked out. I will let you know if I have any problems and any solutions I find.

Keep in mind, his card is about 4 or 5 years old, and the main problem is that Turtle Beach decided not to upgrade the drivers for XP when it was released. They turned the the drivers over to Microsoft, and MS made a generic XP driver for them which has worked fine for my friend until NWNs.

He ordered a SB LIVE! 5.1 from www.newegg.com for $32 with free FedEx shipping last night, so he'll be playing by the weekend.

I did alot of searching on the NWN boards, but there was very little help for TB cards, so I'll recap what I learned in case you do have problems. The prefered method was to upgrade to the latest TB driver for your card(if they have one for XP). The second method was to "roll back" to the OEM installed driver(didn't work for my friend). Another method was to use the generic XP driver for the card(didn't work for my friend either). My friend's method was to buy a new card

If you have a newer TB card you should be ok.

[ 10-01-2002, 07:36 AM: Message edited by: Ronn_Bman ]

[Mack_Attack]

Thanks for the info Ronn. I hope I do not have any problems My computer is newer.
I kind of hope it doesn't work then I can tell the wife that I need a new computer.

Yeah right [img]graemlins/laugh3.gif[/img]