Even **NEWER** Santa Cruz beta drivers (v4186)

Brian48 · May 16, 2003, 04:26 PM

ftp://ftp.voyetra.com/pub/tbs/santacru/sc_4186.exe

Looks like Voyetra has just updated the v4184 betas release a few weeks ago.

Quote:

v4186

What's New?
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v4186
* EAX 2.0 fully compliant. Query for BasicSupport of Deferred EAX
properties now works.

* Speaker configuration no longer jumps to different configurations
while starting games.

* 3d hw acceleration DSP task management improved.

* Bugchecks on uninstalling resolved. NOTE: the 4184 may bugcheck
as it's uninstalled.

DallasStar · May 17, 2003, 05:22 PM

goodstuff thanx.

digitalwanderer · May 17, 2003, 07:00 PM

Man, I have GOT to steal the TBSC out of my wife's computer and swap it for me fortissimoII in Bubbles...the sound is just TOO much incredibly better!

Dom · May 17, 2003, 08:26 PM

Awesome!

Drivers fixed my device manager conflict with the Santa Cruz game port.

Malus · May 18, 2003, 12:07 AM

Damn you Philip's, damn you to hell. Where's my shiny new drivers?

Kenshinw95 · May 18, 2003, 01:14 AM

This puts me in a bit of a quandry.. I have a TB SC, but I keep switching between it and my A7N8X's onboard sound. For 2 reasons..

1) Turtle Beach was reported to be out of the sound card biz.

Usually that means no new drivers, and bug/game fixes.

2) The Hulk game demo has a problem with the TBSC. The sound breaks up,
and vanishes halfway through it. The readme.txt said it was the card's
problem. So it made me wonder what ELSE has problems with it..

I've gotten most of the crackling, and static out of my Nforce2 sound, but it rears it's ugly head once in a while, but at least it never does anything like is descibed in point #2..

Which would be best? Use a soon to be orphaned sound card, the mobo sound, or a diff. sound card? If the latter, which?

I've heard the Audigys are the best sound, but the worst in terms of the amount of errors, glitches, bugs, and just plain resource hogging..

RIV@NVX · May 18, 2003, 04:01 AM

I suggest you to try these newer TBSC drivers, other people I know also reported that they are great

Maybe they have fixed what you wanted

BOB050082 · May 18, 2003, 06:31 AM

A word of caution: the 4186 drivers are NOT compatible with GTA Vice City. However, the 4184 set are

Dom · May 18, 2003, 07:11 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by BOB050082
A word of caution: the 4186 drivers are NOT compatible with GTA Vice City. However, the 4184 set are

How do you mean?

dogin · May 19, 2003, 05:01 AM

Noticeable sound improvement with new drivers vs 4161's. So far very pleased with the new beta's