Windows Media Player and Games with Pulsar 2

flux · Post by **flux** » Sat Feb 09, 2002 11:26 am

I've had the Pulsar 2 about a year now, and only now gotten around to the forums. Has anyone else been having problems with more normal indows usage with Pulsar 2? When I play music videos etc. in Windows Media Player sometimes the music speeds up to double speed or keeps cutting in and out. I think that Pulsar 2 is the problem, is there something i should be doing in the configuration.

marcuspocus · Post by **marcuspocus** » Sat Feb 09, 2002 3:04 pm

I had a couple of problem like this, and i solved them by reinstalling latest directX... Some have not been able to fix this way, but i have.

flux · Post by **flux** » Sat Feb 09, 2002 4:36 pm

Thanks for the reply. I just installed DirectX 8.1 (the latest), and the problem got slightly better, but it's still happening, any other ideas?

marcuspocus · Post by **marcuspocus** » Sat Feb 09, 2002 6:40 pm

DirectMedia update?

(for DvD playing at least)

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flux · Post by **flux** » Sun Feb 10, 2002 10:16 am

Thanks. What's direct media? Would i have it already? Where can i get an update for it?

doodyrh · Post by **doodyrh** » Mon Feb 11, 2002 2:08 am

I've been having some trouble with Media Jukebox and RealPlayer. Don't know whether it's the card or the apps. A couple of times I had sound at half speed or lower. Often I get a continuous looped split second segment of sound especially at the end of playing an MP3 or on pause.
I've posted this at the Media Jukebox forum too.

subhuman · Post by **subhuman** » Mon Feb 11, 2002 11:07 am

Realplayer is just crap, full of ads, previously full of spyware, forcing itself into your startup - beware of installing this on a professional DAW! UltraPlayer will play RealAudio files and it's much better behaved - plus no ads. The 'sped up' sound from certain audio programs seems to be an extremely low quality sample rate that isn't getting properly upsampled.

doodyrh · Post by **doodyrh** » Mon Feb 11, 2002 1:05 pm

On 2002-02-11 11:07, subhuman wrote:
Realplayer is just crap

Tell me about crap. I hate it with a vengeance. And thanks to UltraPlayer it's already gone. Good tip

As a Pom (trying not to be a whin[ge]ing hound) in Germany I get BBC on the internet and guess what format that's in. I thought RealPlayer had the monopoly on it.

But pausing during MP3 playback has the same result in UltraPlayer, ie. dadadadadadadadadada..... repeated split-second sample. Not the end of the world, but I'm beginning to suspect Pulsar.

johnwho · Post by **johnwho** » Tue Feb 26, 2002 6:50 pm

It also happends with Luna 2. When pausing mediaplayer it loops and I get pops and crackels and!!!!. So it must be Creamware. But then again its recomended not to use mediaplayer on DAW's. But I like mediaplayer What can a man do then???? Dont hold the answer. The strangest thing is last time I used the computer it suddently stopped doing that strange loop thing and it didn't pop or anything??? Don't get it. Now it's back again with a vengence. By the way my system specs is: Athlon XP 1800+, Asus A7V266-E Raid, 512MB DDR ram, Pulsar 1, Luna 2, Gforce3 TI500, 2 IBM Harddrives (GXP 60GB and 40GB). And I downloaded all new drivers, bios and Via shit (4in1 driver and latency patch) + I spend some time tweaking my operating system (WinXP Pro). I run Cubase 5.1r1, Nuendo 1.53 and Wavelab 4.0. I can load 3 masterverbs with my Luna 2 alone so I dont think its my system ( I now its a Via KT266A). HELP solving this problem is needed. Thanx