CoD4 MP crashes using onboard sound...

[Crawlerz]

... I overhauled my DELL a little as I wrote in another thread. replaced a "burned-out" 8800GTX with a Radeon 4890 and bought a monster 910W PSU from P&C... the thing's so huge I had trouble getting it in (pardon the pun). Wires hang out the side. But that's all beside the point.

When I was "inside" the tower, I took out my ooooold SB live 24bit sound card. As I have onboard DELL sound, I thought of running with it. And, yes, in other games (like CoD 5) the sound is better (especially the MG - rattahtahtah - sexy). And CoD 4 launches, but only in single player. In MP, it crashes on startup.:crying::scared:Even if I change the sound settings. Any suggestions, guys and gals? maybe fiddle with the Control Panel's sound?

 

[WhiteSoxFan5622]

Update your drivers. The new motherboard probably came with a CD with all the drivers. Just pop that in and it should fix the issue.
Although I personally haven't ever heard of COD crashing due to sound.

Maybe post a dxdiag and someone could check it out.

EDIT:Woops re-read the post. So it works in other games?

 

[Crawlerz]

So it works in other games?

moreso! this isn't a new mobo. this is the DELL mobo I've had for 2.5 years with ingrated sound. I haven't used it. Used a SB card. When I swapped out for a P&C PSU I also took out the SB card. switched back to integrated. it's deeper, better. everything but cod4 multiplayer works. even cod4 singleplayer works.

 

[astyle]

make sure your sound card drivers are up to date, that happend to me and it was my sound card making it crash

 

[Crawlerz]

make sure your sound card drivers are up to date, that happend to me and it was my sound card making it crash

I just ran the "update drivers" for the integrated sound - it said it's up to date.