Inglorious Bastard

Thanks again everyone for all your help!! Seems flashing the BIOS did the trick. I still don't have any sound coming from the motherboard whatsoever and hence the mic doesn't work but I'm sure you guys won't miss my smart mouth anyway. The game launches without crashing and I can play in Full 1920x1080. Looks awesome and it's fast. No lag whatsoever and I have sound through the TV for game play and I'm satisfied with that. I'm going to see if I can find out from ASUS why their graphics card is overriding the on board sound for one of their motherboards. If I gain anymore information I'll post it. Kill ya later!

Hi Kapt, Thanks for the links and info! I couldn't find anything to update the 460 BIOS so I appreciate the link! Is there anyway to access the 460 BIOS or to find out which one is on the card now? My question is if I update the mainboard BIOS do I have to do each one or can I just update with the latest one? There are 4 updates past the version I'm running (Version 0802). If I update the BIOS will it mess up Windows? I'm assuming not because I have the ASUS Update software installed in Windows but I'd like to be sure before I dive in. As for the temperature, the cpu normally runs around 118 and will peak around 145 when in a game. Those are the only numbers I have and the chipset numbers may be different? I'm not sure how to find those. I don't have any sensors installed other than what PC Meter tells me and it just gives me core temps for each of the 8 cores. I've never had any issues with temperature or anything like that other than when I was running the 5450 and the 42" display. The x58 actually has a nice coating that is designed to dissipate heat efficiently and I'm running two chassis fans which will increase in speed as the system heats up. Those all seem to be working well. Anywho, thanks again for the info. I may run out to the puter store later today and look for an mini HDMI to full size HDMI cable but I don't think that will solve my problem. It is a good excuse to go to the computer store tho! lol Thanks again for all your help!

Yes WiZid I was thinking I may have to get a separate sound card and go that route. I never use the front jacks and whats got me baffled is Windows shows that I have devices hooked to the front but there's not. In the pic I posted it also shows headphones which are not connected and it shows speakers not connected which are! All directly to the motherboard! I also have a mic hooked to the back and it doesn't show that either but says there's a mic hooked to the front panel which there isn't. I am going to disconnect the front jacks altogether and see if maybe I have something screwy there. I did not know there were separate connections for HD sound and standard. It's all worked fine until I installed the 460 but something still might be off in there and installing the 460 might have brought it out. I've disabled the onboard audio in the BIOS and it doesn't help. That was one of my first thoughts that it's just a conflict so disabling the onboard was the logical thing to do. I appreciate the input! I'll let you know how it goes!

Hi Kapt, To answer your question, before the 460 I was running an ASUS EAH5450 Silent with 1GB DDR3. The problem I had with that card was I had to scale back the graphics in the game (shadow, smoke, etc.) just to get it to run at a decent pace without lag which it would do terribly if I cranked things up. That was on a 24" monitor. Well I recently hooked up a 42" LG HDTV to that card and started getting alot of pixelating and lines in the display which I just figured the card couldn't handle that large of display. The 5450 has no fan and uses the system fan to cool and that fan was running like crazy all the time so I think the 42" display is just too much for it. I was given the 460 (yes really) and had it all working fine. Graphics were tremendous and sound worked with no problems. I played a few rounds in COD 4 and was pleased with the results. All of a sudden I had no sound whatsoever in Windows and couldn't even get in the game. It just crashes upon startup. I suspect just rebooting the computer after install and running the first time was what changed things. If I hook the smaller monitor back up the game will run but I still have no sound. Mind you the smaller monitor is directly connected with a DVI cable from the video card to the monitor. When I hook up the TV, I have to use a DVI to HDMI adapter because the TV has no DVI connection. I know HDMI carries audio as well as a video signal and I'm thinking DVI only carries a video signal. I still can't figure out how to disable the sound in the video card to the point where it won't interfere with the motherboard audio which is what I need to do to keep the game from crashing. NVIDIA's website doesn't really address the issue and they're fix doesn't even work on this machine. They suggest turning the audio off in NVIDIA Control Panel which I do but that just leaves me with no sound whatsoever. Onboard sound still has no functionality. COD 4 has always crashed on me if the mic wasn't connected and configured properly in any instance so I'm thinking because the onboard audio is being disabled by the video card, I'll never get it to work right in the game. I really don't care if the mic works or not and that would be a fair trade off for having an awesome display in the game. I can run HDMI to the larger display with the 460 and have sound out of the TV no problem but I won't be able to play the game because it still can't detect a microphone and will crash. I'll look into what BIOS Version I have and see if I can update it. Maybe there's a fix there. This system is roughly 3 years old and I've not experimented much with BIOS or graphics in a long time so I'm just debating if it's even worth it. I may just go back to the smaller display and 5450 video card until I can build a better system to handle the newer video card. Fortunately I have time on my hands right now. Unfortunately I don't have the money. lol Isn't that how it goes sometimes? Thanks for your response. I've not seen this problem before but I've not kept up with the latest advances in graphics and such. I only hoped that maybe someone else had a similar problem and was able to correct it. I'll keep looking and if I come up with a decent solution I'll surely post in the forums for all to see. Peace!

Hi Dean, Yea I've tried that. No luck. Tried disabling the video card sound (NVIDIA HD Audio appears 4 times in Device Manager). I've also hooked up a different monitor directly with a DVI cable, no luck. Re installed Realtek Audio Drivers (for the motherboard) and enabled everything, no luck. There are no conflicts in Device Manager and everything is enabled. I'm going to disable everything and see if the game will run without sound. Maybe I can at least shut off voice and then it might work again. Just took a couple screenshots of Windows Sound and here is the screwy thing. The speakers show as not being connected but they are and Windows shows headphones connected. There are no headphones connected. I have the mic plugged into the motherboard jack and Windows shows it as the front mic is plugged in. There's no mic connected to the front. I've also tried plugging things into the front jack, no luck. Needless to say, this confuses the hell out of me. lol My guess is the video card is actually screwing up the sound circuitry in the motherboard and that's why I'm getting wierd locations for things that aren't even plugged in. Maybe some kind of backfeed through the circuit on the motherboard perhaps? I dunno. I'll probably just have to go back to the old video card if I want to play again. Thanks for your help!

Hi Everyone, I'm wondering if anyone has run across this problem and if so, were you able to conquer it? I have just recently acquired an ASUS GTX460 graphics card and figured I'd throw it in my system because it was a helluva lot better than the one I was running. The ASUS card has two DVI outputs and one mini HDMI. I have it connected to a 42" LG HDTV (I know huh! lol) from DVI-1 to an HDMI adapter then to the TV with an HDMI cable. The problem occurs because it seems this particular video card (and maybe they do that now I dunno) includes on board audio so the video and sound is piped directly through the card to the display and the sound works fine there. It was an easy fix to just hook my computer speakers to the headphone jack to the TV and voila it rocks! The problem occurs when I go to play COD 4 because there is no detectable mic, the game will crash every time! I've had this problem before with COD 4 and if I disable the mic in Windows or unplug it, the game crashes. Right now I'm dead in the water and the game won't even start in safe mode so I could maybe disable voice chat and see if that doesn't help. Because the video card installs it's own audio drivers, it basically disables the motherboard on board audio and therefore I have no sound coming from the motherboard on the computer and the mic doesn't work either. They all show up in Windows 7 but Windows really won't let ya do much with em. With the motherboard sound before, it would display when the speakers were connected or not or whether a mic was connected to the front panel or rear panel and so forth. Now it just shows them as disconnected devices and if they are disconnected there is no functionality obviously in Windows and I know it's because the video card drivers have pretty much disabled any sound coming out of or going into the motherboard audio. My BIOS doesn't give me the option to pick which audio I want to use. It only allows me to enable or disable the on board audio of the motherboard and I've tried that. I've removed all the drivers for both the graphics card (including the audio drivers that install separately) and the motherboard audio drivers, re installed the motherboard audio drivers and still no luck. The graphics card even in it's diminished state still supersedes any other audio device. I'm thinking my options are: 1) See if there is an update and flash the BIOS which I've never done before and really don't want to screw up Windows which I'm guessing it will do. 2) Go back to my original setup which the graphics sucked on but at least I could play the game. 3) Install a separate sound card (which I don't have) and I'm not sure if that would work anyway 4) Re install the game itself with my computers new configuration 5) Pray to the computer gods for a patch 6) Maybe just take up basket weaving. Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated as long as they're constructive. I was just wondering if anyone else has run into this situation and if so, what was your solution? I would love to continue to be able to use this graphics card and I really just wanna get back to doing some killing. I'm running an ASUS X58 Sabertooth Motherboard, an Intel i950 Processor @ 3.07Ghz, 8GB RAM, and Windows 7 Home Premium 64 Bit.

Cool beans! Can't wait to go camping! Smores anyone? :op

Ok I'll give that a try. When this came about I was having an issue with downloading new maps. It would start downloading, go over %100 and then would re-download and there was no way to stop it without shutting down the game prematurely so maybe it corrupted something. Thank you for your help. I'll let you know I how I make out!

I wonder if anyone can help me figure out why I can't hear other people talking in COD4. I only mention COD4 cause that's about all I play. I'm thinking it's probably a setting in my computer as I've tried disabling then enabling voice chat in the game itself with no luck. I've also tried changing the command key around with no luck. My mic is working fine and I know others can hear me but I can't hear anybody when they talk. Of course there are a couple select players whom I choose to usually ignore but not everyone. I can't pinpoint when this started happening but it kinda coincided with new maps and that is probably not even connected to the problem. I've also scaled way back on most graphic settings (Smoke, shadows, etc.) just so the game will run better on this particular system. So far I'm pleased at how much faster the game runs but the voice chat issue really has me stumped. I don't have any other issues with sound on the computer or any other issues with the game at all other than my performance in the game. lol I wonder if there is a command line setting for muting all players or something to that effect? Any help would be greatly appreciated! I am considering reinstalling the game and starting over which is a chore so I'd appreciate an easier alternative. I'm sure it's probably something stupid which I've overlooked but that's why they call it dope. ;o) Thanks in advance! Kill ya later! Inglorious Bastard

I get that error if I have my mic disabled in Windows which I do because of backfeed thru my speakers. I've since started using headphones in the game and I just leave the mic alone.

Ok well for whatever reason it's done now. It downloaded a different one today and all is well. I couldn't get back in last night tho which just left me completely frustrated so I just spent the time polishing my gun. )

I too am having the same problem. It just keeps repeating the download and it exceeds %100. I do have problems with COD crashing but it's usually related to my mic and Windows. This is something new that just started yesterday. Restarting, rebooting, nothing works to get it to stop downloading this map. Help!

Kill em all and let God sort em out!

Nice going! Found my brother's name and my son's! I love screenshots, when I remember to take them!