The (IO)Quake 3 & SAM 440EP Sound problem strikes yet again...

Hi Folks

As some of you may be aware, I have an old SAM 440EP which has blown soundchips. So I installed an old Soundblaster Love 128 card on the only slot.

Generally this works well playing video's some games etc. However I find that on IOQuake 3 and Quake 3 executables, the sound stutters/echos/overlays when running the game.

AHI settings appear correct, would appreciate any help to get the sound issue resolved.

Many thanks

@Mikey_C
If all else fails, I have a Creative PCI sound card (can't remember which model) that worked fine in my X1000 (well I didn't test Quake on it due to lack of 3D for Radeon HD), which you could test at the next ANT meeting to see if it makes any difference.

@ChrisH

Thanks Chris, appreciated, lets hope someone has a solution though!

On which partition/filesystem is it installed ?

@Lio

Its on a "games" partition with SFS installed.

@Mikey_C

Well, the internal graphic card in Sam440 is not the fastest, my guess is that the CPU is too busy handling 3d, the AI and so on, you should check if the CPU is maxed out there are some CPU monitoring tools around on some more correct then others.

As you need the PCI slot for the sound card I don't think there is lot you can do about it.
Even with a better graphic card, I think the Sam440 might be bit on the slow side.

No problem with ioQuake here, with Sam Flex 800mhz and Radeon 9250

@utri007

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With what sound card? IIRC, SB-live cards like Mikey_C has are pretty bad with stuttering. Other cards have less/no problems.

Hans

Bum! Hans, do you know how hard it is to find a 3.v card

@Mikey_C

No. I've never had to look for one.

Hans

@Mikey_C

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Is this the hippy version?

But serious which is it

sb128 ? or Sound Blaster Live?

sb128 whilst old and low quality do work. SB Lives do not work 100% under amigaos4 (dispite random annecdotal evidence from people who haven't had problems).

As to your stuttering, Quake3 on a SAM is optimistic in the extreme, are your sure it's just not running too slow?

@Mikey_C

Hi Mikey,

Would a Terratec Aureon card be of interest to you?
It is a universal 3.3 and 5 v card.

@Mikey_C

No so hard. Finding one that is supported is.
I got one of these but it did not work.
Did report my findings to Acube.
Would be a good option to support

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16829270010

@broadblues Quote:
Quake 3 runs without stuttering on two other Sam440s, albeit using built-in sound chip. (We even tried copying my configuration files over, but for some strange reason that gave no sound at all!)

@ChrisH

what about checking the uboot version and whether the pci update patch was ever applied.

http://www.acube-systems.biz/download ... mini_updater_20110215.zip

http://www.acube-systems.biz/common/file/pci-mini-update.lha