I think most of it is in his very first post in this thread
The only program I've ever bought that crashed right away because of sound issues was Cyberlink PowerDVD. I paid a fortune for it and was getting increasingly pissed off that it refused to run until I found a hint in a forum that it didn't like having two audio devices on the same computer. Disabling the onboard Realtek soundchip in the bios fixed the problem (since I only ever used my Creative card anyway). Tardis1701F, do you by any chance have other sound cards than the detected Realtek one?
I have searched in my Bios and found about 4 seperate entrys besides my realtek audio for a Nividia High Definition audio but i have never seen it before. My Graphics card is Nividia but i have nothing else to do with Nividia on my computer
I'll show you what came up so you can understand
Name NVIDIA High Definition Audio
Manufacturer NVIDIA
Status OK
PNP Device ID HDAUDIO\FUNC_01&VEN_10DE&DEV_000A&SUBSYS_10DE0101&REV_1001\5&32E8D465&0&0001
Driver c:\windows\system32\drivers\nvhda64v.sys (1.2.22.1, 170.10 KB (174,184 bytes), 26/05/2011 15:40)
Name NVIDIA High Definition Audio
Manufacturer NVIDIA
Status OK
PNP Device ID HDAUDIO\FUNC_01&VEN_10DE&DEV_000A&SUBSYS_10DE0101&REV_1001\5&32E8D465&0&0101
Driver c:\windows\system32\drivers\nvhda64v.sys (1.2.22.1, 170.10 KB (174,184 bytes), 26/05/2011 15:40)
Name NVIDIA High Definition Audio
Manufacturer NVIDIA
Status OK
PNP Device ID HDAUDIO\FUNC_01&VEN_10DE&DEV_000A&SUBSYS_10DE0101&REV_1001\5&32E8D465&0&0201
Driver c:\windows\system32\drivers\nvhda64v.sys (1.2.22.1, 170.10 KB (174,184 bytes), 26/05/2011 15:40)
Name NVIDIA High Definition Audio
Manufacturer NVIDIA
Status OK
PNP Device ID HDAUDIO\FUNC_01&VEN_10DE&DEV_000A&SUBSYS_10DE0101&REV_1001\5&32E8D465&0&0301
Driver c:\windows\system32\drivers\nvhda64v.sys (1.2.22.1, 170.10 KB (174,184 bytes), 26/05/2011 15:40)
Name Realtek High Definition Audio
Manufacturer Realtek
Status OK
PNP Device ID HDAUDIO\FUNC_01&VEN_10EC&DEV_0888&SUBSYS_102802E0&REV_1000\4&32634E45&0&0201
Driver c:\windows\system32\drivers\rtkvhd64.sys (6.0.1.6363, 2.72 MB (2,854,504 bytes), 31/05/2011 14:53)
Could you tell me a way to disable them as i always use the Realtek
I have uninstalled the Nvidia drivers and i am left with only the Realtek entry but the game still does not run.
I changed it back to the original configuration where it would not open when sound on and still has the same problem.
Any help
Thanks for replying.