Madmortigan posts again on the Tech Tavern trying to assist people with sound and lockup problems. If you are a DAoC player and experience these problems, read on! Sound playback on computers using both a VIA chipset and a nVidia (as well as some other) graphic card often gets distorted if there is a heavy amount of graphic processing at the same time. Both sound playback and the graphic display works fine if used alone, though. Changing the drivers or BIOS for the chipset, the graphic chip or the soundcard does not help. Most problematic are the combination of a chipset using a high latency value default in its CPU-to-PCI bridge (like VIA MVP3), a soundcard playing back several memory channels through the PCI bus (like the SB Live!) instead of using local memory buffers and fast graphic chips which can lock the bus for a long time (like the nVidia Geforce). Setting the CPU-to-PCI bridge latency timer to 0 often helps. However, this is not available in most BIOSes or drivers, thus a small tool is required for it. For Windows 9x users you can download this: http://www.miro.pair.com/tweakbios/ also MVP3 latency timer tool sets the latency timer of the CPU-to-PCI bridge. Does not work under NT / Windows2000 http://koti.mbnet.fi/parru/ also MVP3 PCI latency timer to 0 tool for NT4, Windows2000 and XP http://www.deinmeister.de/mvp3_zlt.zip Please note, these tools are not supported by Mythic Entertainment, and we will not be held responsible for anything that may go wrong. Use these at your own risk. These tools have been know to helps users with the above situation, mostly Windows 2000 users. Mike