it would require windows to be reinstalled  

eh? how do they connect to the SB card?

u installed the drivers and utility for the onboard?

good luck

 
Well....

IT DOES!

Right, firstly:

[size=36]#*$%[/size][/b] Creative and the horse they road in on. Grr!      

Now that thats off my chest. ...

Tomb Raider: Legend usually crashed within 45-60 seconds (every time without fail).  Now I can get at least an hour+ out of it.  Aint Next Gen graphics great?!  :mrgreen:

Yes, it does still crash but in a different way now (black screen but with sound and game engine still apparently running) which Im confident this time will be a graphics card driver issue (currently running 84.43s).  Ill try to get the error report next time.

Sound hardware acceleration is still at full tilt with the onboard sound so Ive yet to explore that option.

Oh, and Ive yet to patch it.

Phew!  Were getting there.

And PC World will be getting a returned POS sound card tomorrow.  

Ill keep yuz up to date with progress - cheers! 

did you format the other day ?
(a few days back)

U-huh.

might as well, weve been messing around with a load of options that might come back to bite you in the ass

a format now the sound issue if fixed should see it running 100%

:cry:  :cry:  :cry:
Everything seems fine - can you think of what settings were changed that might affect it?

 
A 2 hours sesh later and TR:L is running fine with all settings maxxed-out.  :mrgreen:

...all is well with not a crash in sight!

Well, we got there in the end - thanks for everyones help!
 

its a pity the old forums went down, im prety sure this would win the longest problem fixing thread in history