Ultimate Spiderman Framerate issue....

[GreyFox28]

Ok, I'll try that. Thanks guys. I'll let you know if I still need help.

[glenbo]

i turned my sound card down to basic in dxdiag...fixed my frame rate issue...but as i said before the sound is now awful....sounds like those cheesy midi files you get on freewebs websites with teh occasional blast of bass,turned it up to half...a little better..so now i have turned it back up to full. it seems either i have to choose between bad glitches or really bad sound.

i am using a nforce 4 chipset with onboard realtek 7.1....also have a pci sounblaster which is not as good as the onboard.

[DABhand]

You would get better performance using that hardware card than the onboard.

Remember the onboard...

1. Is software not hardware

2. Is using up valuable RAM to operate

3. Will lag games, as you can see.

4. Doesnt work great with another hardware sound card at same time (i.e. disable one/remove card)

[glenbo]

works fine for me on everything exept that game.

my nforce onboard 7.1 card is awsome..my soundblaster live card wont even let me run san andreas when set as primary.(that was the issue from my 'strange san andreas problem' thread.

i have not got any other games that lag atall exept for this one,not halflife 2 not farcry,not my f.e.a.r demo.

i am looking in to buying one of these new super duper £300 soundblaster cards i keep seeing anyway.

[DABhand]

Audigy 4 would be your best bet. Ebuyer will give you a good deal on one.

But you cant run onboard/hardware cards. Its using up ram/processor time/IRQ allocation (that could be used for something else)

[glenbo]

i got 2gb of ram (400fsb dual speed ddr) though..so its not really hurting anything.
and it is pretty essential for me to have two atm.