pulsar II and graphic/display problems

oerting · Post by **oerting** » Mon Jan 14, 2002 4:28 pm

Hi there!
I run Pulsar II on a Pentium III-933 Mhz, Abit-se6 motherboard and with a matrox AGP g4+ graphic card.
Everytime I load Pulsar II (the updated version as well as the old), I get Tivoli and the scottish flag all over my screen - and the system freezes...

How to adjust the BIOS, the monitorsettings and other systemdevices to achieve the best graphic display for Pulsar???

(I also have Gigastudio 160 installed, but audio and sequencing is running on a G4 Mac.)

THANKS A LOT FOR SHARING YOUR IDEAS AND EXPERIENCES!

Oerting!

subhuman · Post by **subhuman** » Mon Jan 14, 2002 4:33 pm

Are you serious about the scottish flag, or is that some new slang for BSOD (blue screen of death)?

If you're serious, then I think you have a virus on your computer (and not the "Access" kind either hehe)

oerting · Post by **oerting** » Mon Jan 14, 2002 4:39 pm

Hi subhuman! and thanks for a quick reply!
No, it's private slang for funny colours in rectangular shapes more or less covering what I'm supposed to see... meaning something is dead wrong with the comm. between Pulsar II and my Matrox card or something else. It's not a virus!
I AM LOOKING FORWARD TO SOME IDEAS ON WHAT COULD BE WRONG!
Thanks again - Copenhagen here!

RedSun · Post by **RedSun** » Mon Jan 14, 2002 5:59 pm

Did you take a look at the Pulsar's and Matrox's IRQs?

I remember having similar problems with another card a while ago. Take a look at your card's documentation. Some of them require an IRQ reserved for VGA(this can be set in the BIOS).

In any case, make sure your CreamWare card has it's own IRQ.

I hope this helps.

RedSun .:.

bigBadWolf · Post by **bigBadWolf** » Mon Jan 14, 2002 6:34 pm

Apologies if this is a dumb question, but how do I change the IRQ of my Pulsar card.

Pulsar II is currently on PCI slot 3 (because my system refuses to recognise the Pulsar hardware in the recommended PCI slot 2 or 4 ).

My Pulsar II card shares the same IRQ as my Matrox G550 dual head video card but they seem to get on just fine - i have very few problems apart from a little bit of video stickyness in SONAR.

So, if I was to change the IRQ for my Pulsar II card, so it had its own IRQ, what changes (improvements ?) can I expect.

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at0m · Post by **at0m** » Mon Jan 14, 2002 10:55 pm

(more or less:)
1-> How do I change the IRQ of my Pulsar card.

2-> My Pulsar II card shares the same IRQ as my Matrox G550 dual head video card but they seem to get on just fine
...
So, if I was to change the IRQ for my Pulsar II card, so it had its own IRQ, what changes (improvements ?) can I expect.

bigBadWolf

1-> What OS do you have? Normally, you can change the IRQ by going to Device Manager. Get the settings from your DSP board, righthand tab-page. If yer lucky you can adjust the setting there manually. If not, you could move your DSP card to a different slot. If the card's not recognised in pci slot 2 (avoid slot1, cos it usually shares resources with AGP), you should take out as much as possible other cards untill the DSP card is recognised. Ideally, your pc only has DSP cards and AGP

2-> It's NO good to have AGP and DSP cards sharing IRQ's. An IRQ is a priority that a device has to interrupt other devices. If both share IRQ's, your pc will not know to whom it will send data first: AGP or DSP?
DSP cards should not be sharing ANY resources with other devices but... DSP cards. Because of Creamware's software, which only speaks to one card (traffic to other DSP cards will go via STDM) and as such, no danger exists that they will get data at the same time.
Creamware DSP cards should always have their own, preferably full, priority. That's why with the Matrox card, you can also disable BusMastering. Also set LAN buffers as small as possible (See the network card's properties in Device Manager). Having set that up, your DSP cards will get max bandwidth

the atom.

at0m · Post by **at0m** » Mon Jan 14, 2002 11:00 pm

also check the forum's Tips'n'Tricks. There's some optimisation lists, that you can use as checklist if anything goes wrong or just to get the most out of your system.

Read them very carefully, they might hold the solution to your problem.
There might be nothing obviously wrong, but DSP cards do weird things to your system - for good and for worse

me again.

bigBadWolf · Post by **bigBadWolf** » Thu Jan 17, 2002 2:38 pm

My system is:

- P3 933
- 512meg SD-RAM
- CUSL-2 muvva
- W98 SE
- Matrox g550 dual head - although i am only using single screen at the moment
- Graphics acceleration - lowest
- Bus mastering - Off
- patient operator

I will your suggestion, atomic, and advise.

Thanks people

dbmac · Post by **dbmac** » Thu Jan 17, 2002 3:06 pm

If your Matrox is AGP (I'm sure it is) then set acceleration to full - let the video card handle the video.
/dave

subhuman · Post by **subhuman** » Thu Jan 17, 2002 3:11 pm

For CUSL2
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Slots 1+5 share an IRQ, so if you have 2 Creamware cards, use these slots.

Slot 2 is unshared. If you only have one card, put your card here.

You can set the IRQ of certain slots on ASUS boards quite easily in the BIOS (usually you can press "Delete" right when you turn on your computer to get into the BIOS). Assign the slot with your Creamware card it's own IRQ (I use IRQ5 usually), then make sure it's not sharing with anything in windows, reinstall your Creamware driver if necessary, and then reapply the latest CW service pack (for Pulsar reapply the V3.01 update followed by V3.01b).

at0m · Post by **at0m** » Thu Jan 17, 2002 6:38 pm

Sub, you skip 3.01a?
I ususally do (i know, it's getting quite messy) first 3.0 -> 3.01a -> 3.01b