If lowering the screen resolution worked to lower the amount of crackling and distortion, I'd be looking at the VIDEO first, not the soundcard.

Might be a simple task of going to the mfr's website for your video and downloading the latest video drivers and installing them, not an uncommon thing to have to do.

Might also be the IRQ table in your computer is *sharing* the USB port where you have the M-Audio attached with the Video card, a vey undesirable situation that may not have a solve these days.


Try the video driver thing first though.


**Also make sure that your sound device is UNLOCKED in its control panel, as having it set to something other than 16/44.1, BiaB's native setting, can force some soundcards to have to do SRC on the fly, which chews up bandwidth and timing issues can result. If your soundcard's control panel does not have an UNLOCKED setting, which allows for the host program to be able to set the soundcard to its bitrate, then set the Control Panel hard to 16/44.1 and experiment like that.

Another sound device may or may not solve this problem. I have a good friend who is using the fasttrack pro with a toshiba laptop and, after getting a few OS settings right - and downloading and isntalling a few new Drivers for the laptop, everything is running well with BiaB and RealBand for him.


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