Hope someone here may be able to help me.

I recently installed AFPD onto my new system (specs. below) and have a strange problem. AFPD works fine without the sound drivers installed.

But, once installed, as soon as I advance the throttle to take off, the computer restarts. Roll back Win XP to before the driver installation and everything is fine again.

Downloaded the latest drivers for the onboard sound and still the same problem occurs.
Specs. are......

P4 3.2GHz
1GB DDR400 ram
P5 Asus motherboard with onboard Realtek sound and LAN
120GB SATA HDD
Radeon X700 PCI express video card

Any thoughts, as it would be nice to have some sound as well.


Thanks, Tim.

Have you installed the latest driver for the video card?

Hi STLPilot,

Thanks for getting back to me. Yes I do have the latest video card drivers installed (ATI 8.11).

I think I have semi-fixed the problem. I had no problem flying gliders and some of the electric planes and if I pressed 'H' to start the plane up high, could fly IC around without any throttle. The computer restarts itself only when I advance the throttle on IC planes.

The onboard sound that I am using is the Realtek ALC861, 8-channel high definition audio. With the hardware acceleration for the sound set to Full or standard acceleration, I have the problem. With it set to basic acceleration, I can fly around all day without any problem.

Because I boot from this secondary hard disk purely to run AFPD, I'm basically sorted, but it would be nice to solve this issue.

Any thoughts ?


Tim

You should certainly load AFPD on primary disk if possible. Secondary's should never be used for such graphic intense programs.

Also your audio card is one that I've never heard of. I'm sure it's great but even great cards have issues too.

I don't know exactly whats wrong with your computer, just a thought: onboard sound card always have lot of problems, specially when they use the system memory for its own use. The quality of their drivers are.. hehe.. If you have problem with sound on your computer (AFPD or anyother games) and have a SBLive (or any good quality sound card) handy, try install it and disable the onboard sound (through BIOS setting).

STLPilot.....

It is not running from a secondary drive as such. I have two 80GB SATA drives both with XP on them. During boot up, I choose using the BIOS which drive to boot from, so it is in effect running from a primary disk.


m00m00.....

I do have a spare SB card kicking around somewhere and will give that a try.


Thanks,

Tim