Mic Usage = Game Crash

cyberfire314cyberfire314 Join Date: 2003-10-21 Member: 21852Members
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When NS was on won, i would randomly crash while using my mic. It would sometimes just stop thegame and make me alt tab out to manualy close it, other times it would do something similar, but have a looping sound.

This started to occur when i started playing again on steam. I heard that it may have to do with my onboard sound (im cheap... meh) so i went out and bought a soundblaster live, again, im cheap ^_^. It was working fine, for a few hours, and then it started to randomly freeze up and crash.

systems specs:

p4 1.4 ghz
geforce 4mx (blah, need to upgrade this junk)
512sdram
soundblaster live

any help would be greatly appreciated. =\
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  • cyberfire314cyberfire314 Join Date: 2003-10-21 Member: 21852Members
    any ideas? <!--emo&???--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/confused-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='confused-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
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  • AlcapwnAlcapwn &quot;War is the science of destruction&quot; - John Abbot Join Date: 2003-06-21 Member: 17590Members
    <!--QuoteBegin-cyberfire314+Aug 29 2004, 06:09 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (cyberfire314 @ Aug 29 2004, 06:09 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> When NS was on won, i would randomly crash while using my mic. It would sometimes just stop thegame and make me alt tab out to manualy close it, other times it would do something similar, but have a looping sound.

    This started to occur when i started playing again on steam. I heard that it may have to do with my onboard sound (im cheap... meh) so i went out and bought a soundblaster live, again, im cheap ^_^. It was working fine, for a few hours, and then it started to randomly freeze up and crash.

    systems specs:

    p4 1.4 ghz
    geforce 4mx (blah, need to upgrade this junk)
    512sdram
    soundblaster live

    any help would be greatly appreciated. =\ <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    SoundBlasters Lives have prob with many programs.

    Get a new sound card, or update your drivers...

    dont be cheap.
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  • cyberfire314cyberfire314 Join Date: 2003-10-21 Member: 21852Members
    so, if its just soundblaster, why did it crash prior to getting the new sound card...

    running xp pro sp1 btw, forgot to mention that >_<
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  • DantemssDantemss Join Date: 2003-12-13 Member: 24305Members
    Upgrading your drivers may be the solution... If you still had your old card, you could set voice_modenable to 0, to disable the voice plugin for half-life.
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