It I think is including a new 3D Sound Engine, And Not sure if its buggy or what, But im back too 3.86, Because a 22 sec. Boot time is Unexceptable. !

Usually is 3-8 sec. only tops !, No matter what XP you run !

good to have an Audigy card running )

is it everytime a 22sec boot?

No like I said above 3-8 sec is normal.

The Driver 3.87 maikes your XP load time 22+ sec, See what I mean now ? 8)

yep
and i meant if the new driver needs 22sec everytime

sometimes it is possible that win boots only 1 time of 10 much longer


See what I mean now ?

The ALC codecs are getting driver updates at least, I read an artical here (I believe) that Audigy's last driver update was Last November and its not fully compatable with nforce4 yet (only the most popular AMD platform atm).

About win xp, u need to load at least 3 times for it to be put in the prefetch directory, and also try running bootvis (from microsoft) to optimise the boot-time of ur system.

Im interested to see how this works in BF2, since previous drivers would place sounds across the map as right beside u. America's Army was always fine. I chose to run these drivers after I isolated a slight freeze, pausing down to the Nvidia implimentation of sound drivers. Im alot happier without this freezing. Had to kill ATItool also since this game mega lags for no apparent reason. :beer:

I see, I did let it boot 10 times or more also, I dont think bootvis is a good idea on x64.