Hercules Game Theater XP Drivers

Driver update went well on my system:

WinXP SP1

TBird 1425 (150MHz FSB)
512MB PC-2700 DDR
Iwill XP333-R
ATi Radeon 8500 64MB

Had a little bit of bit of trouble uninstalling my old drivers though...

These drivers just totally fubard my system, no sound ,blue screens #$%&$

this is abit it7/P4/GF4/GameTHxp/3200DDR

I have uninstalled reinstalled, sp1, nvidia 40.41's signed drivers etc. it is just fucked @^#%

now to reinstall, and find a linux supported sound card GOD DAMMIT

Installed these last night. Had no problems at all.

In fact, these post suprised me until I thought "Oh yeah, I'm an Intel Fanboy, which is like a dying breed at the Shack. I wonder if this is CPU/mobo related?"

Looks like I was right.

A few suggestions:

- Go right to the mixer and put Wave at mid-level. This will prevent bottoming on music with heavy bass; you should be cranking up the master in sndvol32 if anything (this level isn't handled in the Hercules mixer)

- If you hear this stupid synthy sound as you start up Unreal Tournament, Deus Ex, or UT2K3, you have the Sensaura splash sound enabled (which is by default). To disable this, go into regedit, navigate to "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Sensaura\Audio3D\Settings", and set the value "SplashScreen" to 0.

- To save on used memory and taskbar space, you can click the Other tab and uncheck "Show Game Theater XP icon on traybar". It will bitch at you and tell you that it won't be able to do headphone detection without running all the time; just dismiss that window. The standard Windows mixer works okay for changing levels, but it can't switch speaker modes or adjust the equalizer. Just type "hercplgs.cpl" in the Run dialog to directly call up the Hercules panel again and make the appropriate adjustments.

This driver set queries the registry about twice as often as the older drivers (3.02, 4.10, etc.), but it's the same amount of data per unit of time. I'd like to know exactly why it does this (checking up on the mixer levels? Doesn't look like it's doing anything suspicious), and if it's possible to maintain all functionality without doing this, but I doubt that's possible. And don't forget to uninstall the old drivers by running a FULL installer and selecting Uninstall (the sans-DLS installers don't have the uninstall option IIRC).

Well, only way I got the drivers working was to reinstall win xp, do SP1, then get it off windows update. AFAIK they're installer is fubar. (BSOD everywhere, cdroms getting corrupted etc...)
I'm fine and dandy now as George Carlin says, but quite a pita!
If I had a choice, I'd go back to 4.10's since I don't like the deaf positional audio they implemented.

When I used to right click on the taskbar icon after running my system for awhile it used to crash the sound card. All fixed now.

Do the new drivers allow you to change the irq/dma settings of the gameport in winxp? I know the driver version on the windows update site doesn't, and neither do the older 4.10 drivers.

Update for me here.....well I went through with reformatting and installed the drivers on a fresh install and they work just fine....shows up as 6.1 but I can pick 7.1 and it shows that they are the latest version so....eh

And I'm on Intel chipset'age.....no Via

/contemplates installing. I have a via chipset

Well, they work fine here >:(

Do all the people with Exploding computers have VIA chipsets?

Aren't these the drivers that broke Crimsonbeak's system? http://www.shacknews.com/ja.zz?id=5591113

well ive been using these drivers for aboot 12hrs now , no probs (actually has fixed all the probs i had with em)