Try enable "Digital out" to your CD drive (in Device manager), if the option
is grayed out, you can still enable "digital play back" inside windows media
player (but only Media player can take advantage of digital). "Digital play
back" will surely improve sound quality. My guess the sound problem is that
WinME takes more resources than win98 (just look back, every "updated" MS OS
asks for more powerful hardware), when you run multiple apps, the sound
software just can't get enough system resources (such like CPU time).

If I can get more idea, I'll let you know.

Jun Qian

----- Original Message -----
From: "M A Ullah" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, October 15, 2000 2:36 AM
Subject: [PCBUILD] Creative PCI64 driver problem in Win ME


> Hi Everyone,
>
> I recently clean installed Win ME in my system. During installation the
> Windows detected my Creative PCI64 soundcard without any problem and
> installed a driver for it from it's own cd (Didn't even ask for a
driver!!).
> But I am not convinced that it is working properly. In win98, the hardware
> came up as Creative PCI64 but now it shows Creative AudioPCI
> (ES1371,ES1373)(WDM) in Device Manager. I tried to install the Creative
> drivers from CD and also the updated version available from the net
(Latest
> drivers are from 1999). But Win ME says the current drivers are more
recent
> than the one I'm trying to install and will not let me go ahade. Now if I
> listen to a Music CD in Real Jukebox and also have other applications
> running and working on them, the sound often crackles annoyingly.
>

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