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It works in Win2k, but not nearly as well as in Win98 (Reply to this comment)
by puter
I also have an MX300 and had several installation issues with it when I originally installed it about two years ago. My computer detects the card fine under Win2k, but the drivers are nowhere near as good in Win2k as they were in Win98.
The trick to getting the card to work on my computer was to just boot up the system and let it install the drivers automatically. Aureal also has (or had) newer Win2k drivers on their support site, but those drivers were no better than the ones included in Win2k.
I have an FIC PA-2013 motherboard (VIA MVP3 chipset) with a K6-III CPU and a Viper V550 (NVidia TnT) video card. I remember in Win98 I had to install the most recent motherboard drivers from VIA in order to get the MX300 to work properly.
I remember having stability issues with Half-Life, but those turned out to be related to a defective V550, not the MX300. My card also sounds fine during DVD playback, but my hardware decoder takes a huge load off the CPU. All the MX300 has to do there is play back the analog signal coming from the Hollywood Plus.
Your friend was correct about the MX300 back when you purchased it. Not only was it a killer deal, it really did sound great. Then the legal wars spun out of control between Aureal and Creative, and our poor MX300s were on the side with the shallower pockets.
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Dec 11 '00
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