Home Register Arcade Gallery Chatroom Members Search Today's Posts Mark Forums Read Log In
Go Back   Inside: SereneScreen Fan Forum > SereneScreen Products > Marine Aquarium 3 for Windows > Marine Aquarium 2 for Windows Archive
Notices

Reply
 
Thread Tools
Old 11-25-2001, 12:18 AM   #101
Coelacanth
Thought to be Extinct
 
Coelacanth's Avatar
 
Join Date: Nov 2001

Location: My Watery Abode
Posts: 180
It's not really a problem with the aquarium; it's just that the sound level of the card is loud in any application. Imagine that your sound card volume settings start at zero, and the next notch up is 5. And from there, each subsequent notch up increases the sound level about twice as much as it should. That's the way it is with this card.
Coelacanth is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 11-25-2001, 09:55 AM   #102
feldon34
Forum Administrator
 
feldon34's Avatar
 
Join Date: Dec 2000

Location: Rock Hill, SC
Posts: 10,937
I have to have the volume levels very low on my card, but with the master volume set to the 2nd notch, the wave volume provides me a complete range from quiet to loud with enough steps to satisfy me.

I guess your card is an even more extreme case than mine. Note that the volume control in Winamp, for example, changes the wave volume, not the master volume. Changing the master volume on my system has the same result as your system, a few steps make it too loud, because the master volume is cumulative with the wave volume.

<img src="https://www.feldoncentral.com/volume.gif">
"Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed. Everything else is public relations." - George Orwell
"If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal." - Emma Goldman

Last edited by feldon34; 11-25-2001 at 09:59 AM.
feldon34 is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 11-25-2001, 12:52 PM   #103
Coelacanth
Thought to be Extinct
 
Coelacanth's Avatar
 
Join Date: Nov 2001

Location: My Watery Abode
Posts: 180
Yep, that's what I've had to do with my master volume control. It must be a bug in the driver then. There's no way that the second notch on the master volume should make it so loud. My old Aureal Vortex2 card didn't do that. It had a more sensible range.
Coelacanth is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 11-25-2001, 09:24 PM   #104
Jim Sachs
Developer
 
Jim Sachs's Avatar
 
Join Date: Dec 2000

Location: Southern Oregon
Posts: 9,768
Are you plugging amplified speakers into the pre-amplified jack on the sound card?
Jim Sachs
Creator of SereneScreen Aquarium
Jim Sachs is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 11-25-2001, 10:30 PM   #105
Coelacanth
Thought to be Extinct
 
Coelacanth's Avatar
 
Join Date: Nov 2001

Location: My Watery Abode
Posts: 180
No, I don't use speakers. I just have a pair of Sony MDR-V600 headphones.

("What, no speakers?," I can hear everyone saying. Yeah, well, after years of using headphones only, I finally see PC speakers get up to the point now where they're worth buying. I'm saving up for Klipsch Promedias )
Coelacanth is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 11-25-2001, 11:22 PM   #106
Jim Sachs
Developer
 
Jim Sachs's Avatar
 
Join Date: Dec 2000

Location: Southern Oregon
Posts: 9,768
Even more important to use the non-pre-amplified jack.
Jim Sachs
Creator of SereneScreen Aquarium

Last edited by Jim Sachs; 11-25-2001 at 11:27 PM.
Jim Sachs is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 11-26-2001, 12:23 AM   #107
Coelacanth
Thought to be Extinct
 
Coelacanth's Avatar
 
Join Date: Nov 2001

Location: My Watery Abode
Posts: 180
Um, the "non pre-amplified jack"? I guess I don't know what you're referring to. My SB Live 5.1 has:

A digital out (orange jack)
A line-in (blue)
A microphone jack (pink)
An analog line-out #1 for front speakers (green)
An analog line-out #2 for rear speakers (black)

The only jack that I can use is the green one. None of the other ones produce output....except the digital out. But it's not designed for headphones, obviously, and plugging my headphones into it produces weak sound in the right ear only. No sound in the left ear.

The green jack is the only one to use. Is it "pre-amplified"? Yeah, I imagine it is, by necessity, to drive enough sound to the headphones. The problem is that the volume SCALE is too loud. Like I said, volume notch #1 sounds like it should be notch #5 or 6. This never happened in Win98.
Coelacanth is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 11-26-2001, 12:47 AM   #108
Jim Sachs
Developer
 
Jim Sachs's Avatar
 
Join Date: Dec 2000

Location: Southern Oregon
Posts: 9,768
I don't know about the SB Live, but most cards have 3 jacks - Microphone in, pre-amplified line out for "dead" speakers, and non-pre-amplified line out for headphones and amplified speakers.

Sounds like the SB Live might have gotten too fancy for it's own good.
Jim Sachs
Creator of SereneScreen Aquarium
Jim Sachs is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 11-26-2001, 07:45 AM   #109
Coelacanth
Thought to be Extinct
 
Coelacanth's Avatar
 
Join Date: Nov 2001

Location: My Watery Abode
Posts: 180
Hmm. Well, I guess I can live with it. I just did what Morgan did -- turned the master volume control all the way down to 1.
Coelacanth is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 11-29-2001, 09:00 AM   #110
nicksteel
Registered
 
nicksteel's Avatar
 
Join Date: Nov 2001

Location: Mississippi (and no, I don't watch FOX!)
Posts: 244
Cool Frame Rate Radeon DDR Card

I'm running a PIII 750 with 128 MB and Radeon 32 MB DDR video card with a SUN 21" flatscreen set to 75 MHZ, 1600x1200. My frame rate is 39 after dxdiag reset to 75. Is this the max I should expect or am I doing something wrong?
nicksteel is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 12-09-2001, 05:37 PM   #111
iatros56
Registered
 
Join Date: Dec 2001

Posts: 3
Big Grin Yey another hardware question

I just bought a P4 1.9GHz, 512MB RDRAM and a 64MB GeForce 2 MX 400 running XP. I'm only getting 53 fps. I've updated drivers and it didn't make a difference. My old P3 550MHz with a 32MB NVidia TNT2 card got 100fps in 98SE.

Any suggestions? Is the OS the problem or is it the user? :-)

Thanks in advance.
iatros56 is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 12-09-2001, 10:13 PM   #112
feldon34
Forum Administrator
 
feldon34's Avatar
 
Join Date: Dec 2000

Location: Rock Hill, SC
Posts: 10,937
iatros56,

Thou shalt find your answers here:

http://www.planetquake.com/ztn/nvreffix/

Let us know if you have any troubles with this.
"Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed. Everything else is public relations." - George Orwell
"If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal." - Emma Goldman
feldon34 is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 12-10-2001, 07:35 AM   #113
iatros56
Registered
 
Join Date: Dec 2001

Posts: 3
Thanks...

...feldon. It worked like a charm. I'm back over 100fps and it has cleared up other vidoe issues I was having.

I really appreciate it!!
iatros56 is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 12-16-2001, 11:09 PM   #114
FRiC
Registered
 
Join Date: Dec 2001

Posts: 2
Cool

Is anyone running the aquarium on ECS DeskNote (i-Buddie) in Windows 2000? After running anywhere from a few seconds to few minutes the computer reboots... The DeskNote is based on SiS630 chipset.

It runs fine on the same computer with Windows 98SE and Windows ME, and I also have other computers with the same SiS630 chipset running Windows 2000 with no problems.

Any ideas?
FRiC is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 12-17-2001, 05:56 AM   #115
iatros56
Registered
 
Join Date: Dec 2001

Posts: 3
I had the same problem...

...when I upgraded my video drivers. I have to revert back to my previous version. The problem went away.

iatros56
iatros56 is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 01-05-2002, 07:01 AM   #116
Tiny Turtle
is pleased
 
Tiny Turtle's Avatar
 
Join Date: Mar 2001
27 Highscores

Location: Stockholm, Sweden
Posts: 7,365
Computer & TV far apart

Hello good people!

A fellow Sachs ichtyoculturist asked me a question yesterday and I thought I'd pass it on to you:

He wants to connect his GF2MX TV-out to the livingroom TV without moving the computer out of the bedroom. How long a cable would still produce an acceptable aquarium on the TV set? Ten feet might be enough if we play around a bit with a powerdrill...

/Calle
Tiny Turtle is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 01-05-2002, 08:06 AM   #117
nicksteel
Registered
 
nicksteel's Avatar
 
Join Date: Nov 2001

Location: Mississippi (and no, I don't watch FOX!)
Posts: 244
Choosing Video Card Replacement

My previous post:

I'm running a PIII 750 with 128 MB and Radeon 32 MB DDR video card with a SUN 21" flatscreen set to 75 MHZ, 1600x1200. My frame rate is 39 after dxdiag reset to 75. Is this the max I should expect or am I doing something wrong?

I am having other graphic difficulties and am considering purchase of another video card. I notice that GeForce cards are popular on the forum and need advice concerning best choice. I see a lot on Ebay and want most stable one with tv video out. My monitor has maximum of 75FPS at 1600x200.
nicksteel is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 01-06-2002, 01:33 AM   #118
Jim Sachs
Developer
 
Jim Sachs's Avatar
 
Join Date: Dec 2000

Location: Southern Oregon
Posts: 9,768
Nicksteel - I restored a '60 Healy 3000 once.
Jim Sachs
Creator of SereneScreen Aquarium
Jim Sachs is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 01-06-2002, 10:25 AM   #119
nicksteel
Registered
 
nicksteel's Avatar
 
Join Date: Nov 2001

Location: Mississippi (and no, I don't watch FOX!)
Posts: 244
Healey

Nicksteel - I restored a '60 Healy 3000 once.
Jim Sachs

I've been restoring this one (1962 3000) since 1978 (never ending quest due to constant foreign travel). Am shipping back to Napa this summer and let my now grown up kids finish the thing before I grow too old to get in and out. Really enjoy the screensaver (in the process of getting a replacement key code due to loss of all on my c: drive) and look forward to your future creations.
nicksteel is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 01-06-2002, 10:51 AM   #120
Jim Sachs
Developer
 
Jim Sachs's Avatar
 
Join Date: Dec 2000

Location: Southern Oregon
Posts: 9,768
Just email Steve or Vic at service@serenescreen.com, and they will look up your Key Code for you.
Jim Sachs
Creator of SereneScreen Aquarium
Jim Sachs is offline   Reply With Quote
Reply
Go Back   Inside: SereneScreen Fan Forum > SereneScreen Products > Marine Aquarium 3 for Windows > Marine Aquarium 2 for Windows Archive



Thread Tools

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off


All times are GMT -6. The time now is 04:08 AM.


Powered by vBulletin®
Copyright ©2000 - 2024, Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.