posted 11-08-2001 01:35 AM               

PROBLEM:
Only with Tomb Raider II, I have problems. When I come into the introduction screen, I see it and at the same moment I hear a
ssshhhhhhtttt which is the only sound at that moment (it is the sound of the five or six symbols such as the redbook, the audio, the
training level, the keyboard settings, etc.) After a second or two, three the music begins and the same problem remains throughout
the entire game with the FMV's. The first one where Lara is almost killed by that Marlon Brando-Italian-mob-type o' guy the sound and
the graphics don't synchronize.
That's the problem and now I'm searching for an easy solution.

Goran (moderator) told me to update my graphic and sound card drivers. For the detonator I had to go to Guru3D and for the soundcard I had to go to Creative. After installing the video & audio drivers I had to reinstall DirectX. I had to try the game and report.

Well, unfortunately: nothing changed! Hopefully I did something wrong so that I could try again and truly solve the problem, but these are the two things (one for the video and one for the audio) that I downloaded.

VIDEO: I went to the site www.guru3d.com and started looking under the subtitle Hot Downloads: there I found a link that said: 'Detonator Drivers'. So, I clicked on it and of all the NVIDIA detonator drivers the site presented to me I picked this one:

Name: Detonator 22.80
Description: NVIDIA Display Driver for Windows 9x version
4.13.01.2280, 10/26/2001
Operating systems supported
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Microsoft Windows 95
Microsoft Windows 98
Microsoft Windows Millennium Edition (Windows Me)
Adapters supported
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NVIDIA RIVA TNT
NVIDIA RIVA TNT2
NVIDIA RIVA TNT2 Pro
NVIDIA RIVA TNT2 Ultra
NVIDIA Vanta
NVIDIA Vanta LT
NVIDIA RIVA TNT2 Model 64
NVIDIA RIVA TNT2 Model 64 Pro
NVIDIA Aladdin TNT2
NVIDIA GeForce 256
NVIDIA GeForce DDR
NVIDIA Quadro
NVIDIA GeForce2 MX
NVIDIA GeForce2 MX 200
NVIDIA GeForce2 MX 400
NVIDIA Quadro2 MXR
NVIDIA Quadro2 EX
NVIDIA GeForce2 GTS
NVIDIA GeForce2 Pro
NVIDIA GeForce2 Ultra
NVIDIA Quadro2 Pro
NVIDIA GeForce3
NVIDIA Quadro DCC
Size: 2.85
Version:22.80
Creator: nvidia
Time/Date Added 03:58 AM 11/06/01
Last Download 11:47 PM 11/07/01
Number of Downloads 5270

That's the information and when I clicked on: "click here to download", I got a licence agreement. I pressed yes and then I could
download. After having done that I noticed it was a zip.file, so I unzipped it and there were about ten different files and none of them was an .exe-file. Many of them were files with an unknown extension .??? and .dll (to me personally; that is.) and I opened the
readme-file and started reading. I hoped that after installing this video-driver (which seemed to be the good one after all) that any
possible problems regarding video would be solved.

AUDIO: I went to the site Goran had given me: www.americas.creative.com and chose support and then download drivers. I selected
audio products, [i]Sound Blaster PCI[i], [i]Sound Blaser PCI 128[i] (which I figured should be the right one since it's mentioned a couple of times in that directx-text at the beginning of this topic). After selecting the right operating system (Windows ME), I got two drivers-files under ME.

1) SBPCI128Setupus_W2K.zip
This is a drivers-only release for the Sound Blaster PCI128.

2) sbpci128setupus.exe
Updated Drivers for Sound Blaster PCI128 (Model No. CT4750 & CT4751).

I pressed on the second one since I figured I already had a driver ... it just needed to be updated, not an entirely new one. I thought it was going to an .exe-file being copied to my harddisk, but instead, I got one last step which were three .lib-files. I figured after
downloading one of those to my hard drive, everything would work out fine. These were the three:

1) Windows 9x drivers
p128w9x.lib (2,538,762 bytes)
2) *Windows 2000 drivers/Windows ME drivers
p128w2k.lib (2,476,013 bytes)
3) *Windows NT drivers
p128wnt.lib (2,399,215 bytes)

I chose the second one, because I have Windows ME although I do not know what the first one is about ... what is windows 9.x? I
might try that one tonight also ... just to see what it does to my system and Tomb Raider II.

Thank you very much for your support, patience and good will (hunting?). I'll be waiting for any reveiling answers and I'll try that windows 9.x-driver tonight.

[i]One more thing: what I find strange is that after having dowloaded two drivers (one for the video and one for the audio) is that I did not get any .exe-files. They were files that I couldn't [i]use ... I just had to have them on my system ... Isn't this strange? I actually haven't installed anything ... I've only downloaded a couple of files to my system. What to do? What to do?

I'll put my DXDIAG-results in this topic too tonight. Thanks again!

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posted 11-08-2001 02:03 AM               

Crazie J

posted 11-08-2001 03:34 AM               

quote:

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Originally posted by craziej2k:
what file did U download the drivers into?
and have you checked the actual CD for scratches,dust etc.?

Crazie J

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Hmmm, that could be it. I just downloaded both drivers into C:\Windows while all my Tomb Raider-files are rather in C:\Program Files\Core Design\Tomb Raider II. Maybe I should delete them in windows and redownload (i think i just came up with a new word ) them in the correct folder; which is the one I just mentioned.

And no: it ain't the cd. I've got Tomb Raider II on two cd's for PC (thinking that my first one was damaged for good ... and it wasn't! ) and both experience the same slowliness.

Thanks in advance, crazy J!

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posted 11-08-2001 04:18 AM               

I don't think you can just replace the files unless they replace existing files. You need to have the registry updated to point to the newer drivers.
Since you didn't list the file extensions, I'm guessing, but one should have been a SYS file. You should doubleclick that one and it should install the driver. If not, you should be able to go to the device manager, select the sound card, and select update drivers. I really don't know where that is on ME. If it asks, point it to the directory where you put the files.

posted 11-08-2001 04:41 AM               

quote:

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Originally posted by aktrekker:
Ahh, Windows ME. It never should have been released. There are known driver issues on ME, and known cases of games not working with DirectX 8 (I assume that is what you have installed).

I don't think you can just replace the files unless they replace existing files. You need to have the registry updated to point to the newer drivers.
Since you didn't list the file extensions, I'm guessing, but one should have been a SYS file. You should doubleclick that one and it should install the driver. If not, you should be able to go to the device manager, select the sound card, and select update drivers. I really don't know where that is on ME. If it asks, point it to the directory where you put the files.

Win9.x refers generically to 95/98. DO NOT LOAD 9.x DRIVERS ON ME. No matter what Microsoft claims, they probably will not work, and will make your devices unusable.

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Thanks a lot!
1) I have Windows ME & Directx 8.0!
2) If I install the new Windows (only just released) as an upgrade for Windows ME, will the problems then be solved?
3) I will not install Directx 9.0 as you said. Thanks for that, because I was going to!
4) Last but not least: I have downloaded the files directly from the internet under C:\Windows. Should I delete them and redownload them under the same folder where I put my Tomb Raider-game-files? And when there is indeed a .sys-file, I should just click it and it begins to install automatically? Hmmm, cool! But if there isn't, I should go to start, settings and then device manager in order to install the latest drivers for my soundcard which are to be found under the directory where I put them, right?

Grazie!
Merçi!
Bedankt!
Danke!
Thank you!
Ping pong peng!

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posted 11-08-2001 10:36 AM               

1] You need to download the driver updates into a temporary directory like c:\windows\temp

2] You need to access the system properties and locate the cards in question and tell windows to update the driver, then point it to the temporary location for the required files.

Bear in mind that I don't have ME (my Dad does) so I have only replaced / updated drivers a couple of times - so I can't give you step by step instructions.