Figured it was a good time to start this thread...:-)

Upgraded to XP and thus far have tried Tribes 2 and Deus Ex. Tribes 2 runs fine, but Deus Ex is pretty funky...the sound is all garbled and choppy and I can't understand a word anyone is saying. Anyone know of a fix?

(And just so I have to say this once, I'm using the correct--and updated--XP drivers for everything.)

I just built an XP system and installed the Nvidia 22.50 drivers for my Geforce2 card... haven't tried Deus Ex. Max Payne (demo) runs great; so do Ground Control (demo), Operation Flashpoint (demo), and NOLF (demo). I got garbled sound in Unreal (not sure which patch; one from last year I think), although that was with my motherboard integrated sound installed, now I have a soundblaster maybe it would be better... Minor distortion in UT, again, might have been the integrated sound chip.

The biggest whopper I've seen thusfar is the Sacrifice demo. The ground disappears a lot and the polygons are a mess.

What kinda sound card you got, William? And I know you updated drivers and stuff, but when? I only ask because Creative released new drivers within the last week, so if you updated everything before that, y'know...

Anyway, I'd try disabling EAX in Deus Ex if you've got it enabled, or enabling it if it's disabled. Just a thought.

Have you tried running it in compatibility mode? I don't know why that would make a difference for your particular problem, but it's worth trying.

I have a SoundBlaster Live. I ran the Windows XP update yesterday and it snagged the updated sound card drivers.

I'll try disabling EAX and see what that does.

I tried fiddling with all the audio settings, and the music and sound effects are fine, but the dialog is messed up.

Ah, the joys of a new OS!

The surround sound and hardware accel is what messes up Deus Ex... had the same until I disabled them.

Myth III - wolf age: Runs like a champ, but every time you exit the game, you MUST delete the contents of the Preferences folder or you'll get a crash error on the next startup.

AVP2 - no problemo

DAOC - no problemo

Tribes2 - actually couldn't play in win98 because of some network issue that lagged me out of every single game I'd join. Installed in XP, it works... and bonus, now runs in 98 as well from that installation. WEIRD.

I've noticed that Deus Ex is running choppy on my systems after installing XP as well. Hmmm...

"I have a SoundBlaster Live. I ran the Windows XP update yesterday and it snagged the updated sound card drivers."

I wiped my hard drive at home and installed XP last night. I don't think those Creative drivers that you get through Windows update are the same as the ones you get from Creative. Go to www.soundblaster.com and find the XP drivers for your card (they have a link directly to the new XP drivers on the front page, I think).

>I don't think those Creative drivers that you get through Windows update are the same as the ones you get from Creative.

They aren't. The drivers included with the update are terrible, and I had all sorts of problems -- especially with EAX and trying to get sound to come out of the rear speakers -- until I installed the entire driver package available at www.soundblaster.com.

Sacrifice has had three patches since release, and one is a major DX8 update. I dunno what the demo status is..

>Myth III - wolf age: Runs like a champ, but every time you exit the game, you MUST delete the contents of the Preferences folder or you'll get a crash error on the next startup.

Is that the only way you can get Myth III to run under XP? Is that a problem with the game or with XP?

Well the Sacrifice demo is from a few months ago, so I suppose the patches have solved the issue by now...