hmmm...

I have a va503+ with a sb live card and a g-force 4 card. it's clocking 500
MHz with 384 Mb of ram running windows 2000. when I play a song with
Windows media player, it plays great. but when I have the graphics turned
on, such as the swirly ambient thingy, the song becomes incredibly choppy
and slow. furthermore, I just bought Soldier Of Fortune 2 and installed it.
it starts fine, but once I fire a few times, and some explosions go off, it
becomes choppy like lag on a modem game and the volume breaks up and
scatters. SOF worked fine and so did Ghost Recon, but those were both before
the new card. but i have had this problem before the new card with the
music on WMP. GTA3 works okay, it gets a little bogged down at time, but
never any broken sound, and Swat 3 is interesting, because it only has the
sound problem on loading screens, where as with SOF2, the loading screens
are the only thing that doesn't act up. I saw you guys joking 503+'s in
early posts, but trust me. I didn't build the thing, nor would I keep this
cpu if I had the money for a Pentium 4. is there anyone that knows what may
be my problem, outside of the fact that I'm using an over clocked 503+?
believe it or not, during heavy attacks on Beach Head 2000, it actually gets
bogged. that game would play fine on a Tandy 1000. what's up?

I believe you are experiencing PCI bus hogging. Might be the GF4 or the
SBLive. It might help to update the drivers (GF4, SBLive and VIA 4 in 1),
but only if you are using really old ones. The latest drivers might not be
the best. Also, check this out: <a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://www.deinmeister.de/mvp3_zlt_e.htm" target="_blank">http://www.deinmeister.de/mvp3_zlt_e.htm</a>
"Jonathan h" <jonathanheroldREMOVECAPS RemoveThis @cox.net> wrote in message
news:bY5Oa.10016$ZT5.2393@news2.east.cox.net...
 > I have a va503+ with a sb live card and a g-force 4 card. it's clocking
500
 > MHz with 384 Mb of ram running windows 2000. when I play a song with
 > Windows media player, it plays great. but when I have the graphics turned
 > on, such as the swirly ambient thingy, the song becomes incredibly choppy
 > and slow. furthermore, I just bought Soldier Of Fortune 2 and installed
it.
 > it starts fine, but once I fire a few times, and some explosions go off,
it
 > becomes choppy like lag on a modem game and the volume breaks up and
 > scatters. SOF worked fine and so did Ghost Recon, but those were both
before
 > the new card. but i have had this problem before the new card with the
 > music on WMP. GTA3 works okay, it gets a little bogged down at time, but
 > never any broken sound, and Swat 3 is interesting, because it only has the
 > sound problem on loading screens, where as with SOF2, the loading screens
 > are the only thing that doesn't act up. I saw you guys joking 503+'s in
 > early posts, but trust me. I didn't build the thing, nor would I keep
this
 > cpu if I had the money for a Pentium 4. is there anyone that knows what
may
 > be my problem, outside of the fact that I'm using an over clocked 503+?
 > believe it or not, during heavy attacks on Beach Head 2000, it actually
gets
 > bogged. that game would play fine on a Tandy 1000. what's up?
 >
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