FirstOff

Dear ShadeTreeLee, thanks for answering. Now I instructed my hard drive to definitly use and show (device manager) UDMA5. Whereas i think before it had been already switched to UDMA5 because that's said to be default adjustment of my hard drive. Do you know something about UDMA6? My HDD is capable fo it. Postings in www telling me that one can switch to it but can't see any difference to UDMA5 cause that would be the maximum to be applied. Best regards Frank

Hi and thanks to all. Think I've found the reason for my problem. Modified the values for SDR/DDR Cas Latency, SDR/DDR RAS Active Time and SDR/DDR Precharge Time in Bios and decreased them slightly. Also replaced my Fs9 config file by a recently updated one. Obviously this works and the probs seem to have disappeared. FO

Hi ShadeTreeLee, surely you think I've switched on DMA recently cause i used it in Autopatcher. Actually using it since long. Just patched it to ensure still working properly. What do you mean by "substitue 2x (DMA) modes as follows: UDMA mode 0 is 40 UDMA mode 1 is 41, etc."? and how to apply? Of course I've checked DMABufferSize=64 and that DMA mode is working well when I applied it first time. Thank you for answering FO

Hi RetroOS, thank you for replying and your tipps. Actually this happens since I autopatched my pc. I'm using 81.98 driver for my video card since it has been released and can't complain about it, neither about performance nor about persisting sound probs. Setting hardware acceleration for sound to full increases the problem. Since ever acceleration for graphics has been set to full. Also tried to vary the slots of my sound card but without a result too. SiS AGP GART driver 1.21 has been installed since long. IDE driver 2.04a has been installed yesterday but nothing changed too. DMA switched on since a long time too. Anyway thank you very much for answering. FirstOff

Hi there, recently partly patched my win98se system via AutoPatcher98_Dec.2007 (modules: Stability Hotfixes, Internet Explorer, Recommended Tweaks - Turn on DMA access to your storage devices) Except a certain sound Issue (spoken sound stutters in MS Flight Simulator 9) everything works very well. Tried several adjustments to fix this. Updated drivers for my sound card (Sound Blaster Live! 24-bit), lowered its hardware acceleration in the audio tab, increased and decreased its latency, checked its IRQ (to be separated from any other device) and switched off any Directx (version 9c) debugging. Dxdiag tab tells me everything works well. Does anyone have an idea what could be wrong? I will be very greatful to any reasonable answer. Os win98se Physical Memory 511 MB Total Virtual Memory 768 MB Total Disk Space 74 GB Total Motherboard Manufacturer ECS Model K7S5A Chipset Vendor Silicon Integrated Systems (SiS) Chipset Model SiS735 CPU to PCI Bridge South Bridge SiS 735 Chipset Vendor Silicon Integrated Systems (SiS) Chipset Model SiS735 CPU to PCI Bridge South Bridge SiS 735 CPU AMD Athlon XP Cpu Socket Socket-A Processor Upgrade LIF Socket Maximum Memory Module Size 128 Mbytes CPU Name AMD Athlon XP 1800+ CPU Clock 1526.85 Video Card NVIDIA GeForce FX 5500 Driver 81.98_forceware_win9x_international