Uru problems

Tansunn

I recently got a Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS Notebook for my laptop, and I've enjoyed it quite a bit until I ran into this problem. While playing Uru, if I have hardware acceleration enabled for audio, certain audio clips will pause momentarily soon after starting, then pick up about half a second later, causing a quite noticeable sound lag in instances where someone is talking, or when a door slides shut. It happens when hardware acceleration is enabled, whether EAX is turned on or not. I've tried using the Audio Resolution Settings and Diagnostics control panel to reduce the quality, but the lag still appears. I've tried reducing the amount of hardware acceleration in the Sounds and Audio Devices control panel, but all that does is disable EAX so I can't select it from the Uru setup (and if I'm going to use hardware acceleration, I'm darn sure going to use EAX), the lag still occurs during those sounds. Any suggestions on things to try to clear up the lag, or am I stuck with having to disable hardware acceleration?

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EDIT: I had a bit here about a dialog box that kept popping up. I restarted my computer because some software was giving me a hard time, and when I tried it again, it didn't pop up any more. And now I feel stupid for not restarting before testing things. I'm still having problem with the audio, though.

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Here are my specs, cut and pasted from DxDiag. If any other information would be relevant, let me know and I'll post it as well.


System Model: Inspiron XPS Gen2
Operating System: Windows XP Professional (5.1, Build 2600) Service Pack 2 (2600.xpsp_sp2_gdr.070227-2254)
Processor: Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 2.00GHz
Memory: 2048MB RAM
DirectX Version: DirectX 9.0c (4.09.0000.0904)
Graphics Card name: NVIDIA GeForce Go 6800 Ultra
Display Memory: 256.0 MB
Driver Version: 6.14.0010.7201 (English)
Sound Card Description: SB Audigy 2 [FEC0]
Driver Version: 5.12.0001.1196 (English)


Thanks in advance for any advice.

Tansunn

Three weeks and still no response. I take it there's nothing I can do about this?

Thrax

Have you upgraded your audio drivers?

Simple, question, I know.. :\

Tansunn

Yes I have. That was the first thing I did when I noticed the problem.