[OT] Desktop Screenshots (last one, I promise! :)

Squirrel Havoc · March 06, 2006, 17:53:53

Quote from: "Atlantis"I was gonna post an old one, but I thought I'd make a new with some typical stuff on the screen.

http://atlantis.plastiqueweb.com/temp/desktop.png

Why does your desktop not surprise me? Only thing running is a high quality audio program

I notice you use ATI graphics card too, do you ever have sound problems because of it?

Atlantis · March 06, 2006, 18:28:03

Quote from: "Squirrel Havoc"
Quote from: "Atlantis"I was gonna post an old one, but I thought I'd make a new with some typical stuff on the screen.

http://atlantis.plastiqueweb.com/temp/desktop.png

I notice you use ATI graphics card too, do you ever have sound problems because of it?

I sure do. My MOTU 828mkII FireWire doesn't like my Radeon X600 Pro running off the PCI-e bus (it loses sync and beeps when using high sample rates and with disk activity going on). I hope the Apogee Rosetta 200 I'm looking to get in the coming weeks/month will fix the problem, else I might have to upgrade my computer too.

I don't think it's because of having an ATI card though, is it? I always thought it was the PCI-e bus stealing all the bandwidth. Maybe I need to configure something in the bios? I'd much rather get a Rosetta 200 though.

Squirrel Havoc · March 06, 2006, 18:48:00

Quote from: "Atlantis"
Quote from: "Squirrel Havoc"
Quote from: "Atlantis"I was gonna post an old one, but I thought I'd make a new with some typical stuff on the screen.

http://atlantis.plastiqueweb.com/temp/desktop.png

I notice you use ATI graphics card too, do you ever have sound problems because of it?
I sure do. My MOTU 828mkII FireWire doesn't like my Radeon X600 Pro running off the PCI-e bus (it loses sync and beeps when using high sample rates and with disk activity going on). I hope the Apogee Rosetta 200 I'm looking to get in the coming weeks/month will fix the problem, else I might have to upgrade my computer too.

I don't think it's because of having an ATI card though, is it? I always thought it was the PCI-e bus stealing all the bandwidth. Maybe I need to configure something in the bios? I'd much rather get a Rosetta 200 though.

Well I didn't think a vid card could screw with the sound, until I was using Win95 and learned that awful blips and squeekies were cased by locking the PCI bus or something, and had to do with the vid card. I've had my ATI for about 6 months, and I changed some settings on it (not in the bios, through the control panel), and now I get cracking sounds all the time, and the computer gets worse and locks up for a few seconds whenever I minimize anything. It could be my SB Audigy though, I've heard they don't like Win2K, and I had to change some system settings when I upgraded to Win2K

Atlantis · March 06, 2006, 19:14:39

Quote from: "Squirrel Havoc"Well I didn't think a vid card could screw with the sound, until I was using Win95 and learned that awful blips and squeekies were cased by locking the PCI bus or something, and had to do with the vid card. I've had my ATI for about 6 months, and I changed some settings on it (not in the bios, through the control panel), and now I get cracking sounds all the time, and the computer gets worse and locks up for a few seconds whenever I minimize anything. It could be my SB Audigy though, I've heard they don't like Win2K, and I had to change some system settings when I upgraded to Win2K

Interesting thing to note. If nothing else fixes the problem, I might consider getting a new video card. Don't know if I want to mess around with the video card settings now.

Squirrel Havoc · March 06, 2006, 20:06:55

Yeah I remember the old MPT help file, talking about distortion when the pattern scrolled, and it said to unlock the PCI bus or something. I never had that option, so I just put up with it until I got a good soundcard.

DavidN · March 06, 2006, 20:53:57

When I installed the latest version of ATI Catalyst (with a newly acquired Radeon 9550), Windows started refusing to boot up. After a while I found that virtually the entire System32 folder had become corrupted during the install, and had to repair from the Windows XP disc.

And after I'd repaired it, I tried installing it again and the same thing happened. Has this happened to anyone else?

Oh, and my desktop. http://wired.st-and.ac.uk/~wong/images/desktop.jpg

I don't have two monitors yet, but it's something that I aspire to.

Atlantis · March 06, 2006, 21:01:42

Quote from: "Wong"When I installed the latest version of ATI Catalyst (with a newly acquired Radeon 9550), Windows started refusing to boot up. After a while I found that virtually the entire System32 folder had become corrupted during the install, and had to repair from the Windows XP disc.

And after I'd repaired it, I tried installing it again and the same thing happened. Has this happened to anyone else?

Not quite the same thing, but I tried installing the latest catalyst control panel from the ATI site not long ago, and on startup it said something along the lines of there being an error in cli.exe, and that it had to close, so I just went back to the old drivers included with the card.

Snu · March 07, 2006, 10:31:25

hmm, i used to have a geforce2 and an audigy2, and i would get weird interference sounds when i would move the mouse, minimize/maximize programs, and some other things (sounded like a very quiet hum or high pitched whine).

never did figure out what caused it, but the gfx card started developing other problems (graphic glitches), and eventually xp just refused to boot with it (would blue screen, and i couldnt even reinstall).

LPChip · March 10, 2006, 22:37:06

Quote from: "Squirrel Havoc"
Quote from: "LPChip"http://lpchip.com/sharing/mpt_sxp_sl_w.jpg <- that was a bug bytheway, which was my own dumb fault

What were you refering to? I didn't notice anything wrong. But I did notice you used Polyphase sampling, while in the old forums, you mentioned XMMS was the best. Which is it? I want the best, and I use XMMS.

BTW: Am I the only one with a hot chick as my background? I feel like a perv

The bug was about not having MPT skinned using the default windows skinning engine. After a while I noticed that it was due to the fact that I downloaded an earlier beta instead of the latest. (on that download page, the top link wasn't updated with the latest download)

About the Polyphase vs XMMS... XMMS is the one you can configure, but polyphase allowes more taps (I believe 8 instead of 4, or 16 instead of

But as earlier mentioned, the one that sounds best to you is the one you need.

xaimus · March 14, 2006, 02:32:38

http://studio.neverside.com/entry/693/

oh-ho clipping ahoy
http://whatthebert.com/ihameed/crap/20060313.png

Squirrel Havoc · March 14, 2006, 03:12:02

Quote from: "xaimus"http://studio.neverside.com/entry/693/

oh-ho clipping ahoy
http://whatthebert.com/ihameed/crap/20060313.png

DAAAAAAAAMN thats a high res you got going there. I kinda miss FreeBSD, but I'm happy with Ubuntu Linux, I just can't seem to get MPT working on it, theres no audio

xaimus · March 14, 2006, 05:14:34

Ouch. Do you get audio in other apps under WINE?

edit:
Also, FreeBSD rules!

bachterman · March 23, 2006, 07:40:22

here's mine from a year in the past:
http://bachterman.uw.hu/stuff/desktop/desktop2k50416.jpg

Snu · March 23, 2006, 22:06:46

Quote from: "xaimus"http://studio.neverside.com/entry/693/

oh-ho clipping ahoy
http://whatthebert.com/ihameed/crap/20060313.png

nice! dual monitors rock :D

Sam_Zen · March 24, 2006, 04:17:12

2 Snu
I experienced the same interference sounds while moving the mouse.
Try muting the CD-connection in the system audio-mixer.
This is because the cable between the cd-unit and the soundcard has connected both sides of the zero-signal,
while the main ground-connection already is there via the bus of the soundcard. A ground-loop.