XarBat Posted May 11, 2010 Posted May 11, 2010 A while ago I spent some time remapping a lot of keys on the keyboard, about half way through I noticed that the function keys and some others no longer responded. I realized later that this was after I hit the Pause key for TrackIR. Thought it was no big deal, then later when I played, the game had a weird glitch where after about an hour into a mission, pressing left on the ministick would jettison the ATGM missiles. I also was unable to hear missile/gun release/fire sound effects; so I decided to uninstall/reinstall. I don't have control problems but still can't hear some sound effects. I want to use joy2key or a similar program to have diagonal slew for my eight way hats and also to have both weapon release and gun fire activated by my trigger button. Anybody else experience problems after using the TIR software pause or joy2key? Also, anyone know possible causes of the sound problem? I am on Windows XP Pro x64, have a Phenom 2 940 and a GTX 280 and no sound card.
71st_Mastiff Posted May 11, 2010 Posted May 11, 2010 I am on Windows XP Pro x64, have a Phenom 2 940 and a GTX 280 and no sound card. well it sem your problem would be you have no sound card? "any failure you meet, is never a defeat; merely a set up for a greater come back", W Forbes. "Success is not final, failure is not fatal, it is the courage to continue that counts", "He who never changes his mind, never changes anything," Winston Churchill. MSI z690 MPG DDR4 || i9-14900k|| ddr4-64gb PC3200 |zotac RTX 5080|Game max 1300w|Win11| |turtle beach elite pro 5.1|| ViRpiL,T50cm2||MFG Crosswinds|| VT50CM-plus rotor Throttle || Z10 RGB EVGA Keyboard/ G502LogiMouse || PiMax Crystal VR || 32 Asus||
FoxDonut77 Posted May 11, 2010 Posted May 11, 2010 Dunno about that, I've had my fair share of unwanted noise and sporadic interference from on-board sound chips so I decided for a PCI-card from Creative, never had any problems ever since. Besides, REALTEK chipset drivers are a pain to get, their FTP-server must be hooked on a 33,6k V.34 modem or something given the time it takes to dl the drivers.
FoxDonut77 Posted May 11, 2010 Posted May 11, 2010 A while ago I spent some time remapping a lot of keys on the keyboard, about half way through I noticed that the function keys and some others no longer responded. I realized later that this was after I hit the Pause key for TrackIR. Thought it was no big deal, then later when I played, the game had a weird glitch where after about an hour into a mission, pressing left on the ministick would jettison the ATGM missiles. I also was unable to hear missile/gun release/fire sound effects; so I decided to uninstall/reinstall. I don't have control problems but still can't hear some sound effects. I want to use joy2key or a similar program to have diagonal slew for my eight way hats and also to have both weapon release and gun fire activated by my trigger button. Anybody else experience problems after using the TIR software pause or joy2key? Also, anyone know possible causes of the sound problem? I am on Windows XP Pro x64, have a Phenom 2 940 and a GTX 280 and no sound card. Check the control settings all over again, there's actually a key command in Lock On/FC2 that disables sound in-game. Might be that you've bound the Track IR functions to in-game keybindnings, causing a conflict. Next up, try swapping USB connectors (just a wildcard), then if nothing helps, reinstall sound drivers.
XarBat Posted May 11, 2010 Author Posted May 11, 2010 What about joy2key? have people been able to use that without problems? As for sound, I will check my motherboard manufacturer's website and see if they have updated sound driver's for my motherboard. If background noise and other problems are bothering you; I recommend you hook up an external DAC to the Audio Digital Out on your motherboard. A PCI sound card will compete with your graphics card for CPU bandwidth. Another thing that bugs me is I have to move my rudder pedals to trim the aircraft. If I press the trim button after just moving the stick but not the rudder pedals it does not work.
71st_Mastiff Posted May 11, 2010 Posted May 11, 2010 (edited) What you say? the on board sound chip is what competes with CPU cycles, dude bone up, on this I know. when you install a Pci sound card it separates it from the the CPU having to cycle it. the sound chip then does all the work not the other way around...shees.:book: That's why you here the static and niose on the onboard sound chips. The CPU frquency is bleeding over on to the capcitors and relays. Watch check you FPS in a fast game then install a not so cheap sound card and then check your FPS again on the same game you will see a performance boost. What about joy2key? have people been able to use that without problems? As for sound, I will check my motherboard manufacturer's website and see if they have updated sound driver's for my motherboard. If background noise and other problems are bothering you; I recommend you hook up an external DAC to the Audio Digital Out on your motherboard. A PCI sound card will compete with your graphics card for CPU bandwidth. Another thing that bugs me is I have to move my rudder pedals to trim the aircraft. If I press the trim button after just moving the stick but not the rudder pedals it does not work. Edited May 11, 2010 by Mastiff "any failure you meet, is never a defeat; merely a set up for a greater come back", W Forbes. "Success is not final, failure is not fatal, it is the courage to continue that counts", "He who never changes his mind, never changes anything," Winston Churchill. MSI z690 MPG DDR4 || i9-14900k|| ddr4-64gb PC3200 |zotac RTX 5080|Game max 1300w|Win11| |turtle beach elite pro 5.1|| ViRpiL,T50cm2||MFG Crosswinds|| VT50CM-plus rotor Throttle || Z10 RGB EVGA Keyboard/ G502LogiMouse || PiMax Crystal VR || 32 Asus||
XarBat Posted May 12, 2010 Author Posted May 12, 2010 It only improves performance in games that have special support, none of the recent titles I have played, and even then not by much usually < 5% fps. There is significant background noise with a pci sound card; if you want something without the noise you need an external DAC or possibly a USB sound card. An external DAC would not interfere with your system at all. When I played Morrowind a long time ago, my creative sound card actually caused major slowdowns and stutters because of the interval in which it communicated with my cpu. Dramatically lowering this interval in the BIOS either reduced or solved the problem. The default latency for the sound card was way too high, I assume that it caused slowdowns or at least delays in the audio of other games as well. But this thread is about more than sound. I am going to see if using joy2key will cause problems with the sim.
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