Guitar Hero 3 - stutters and crackl

Hiya all. I'm currently using driver 6.0..24 (the one that DriverExpires showed how to extract on his website). In the past, sound really hasn't been a big deal for me - I have it on lightly when playing games, and for listening to youtube videos and the like. Anyhoo, I just purchased Guitar Hero 3 today, and was hoping that the audio would be great - I have a nice set of 5. surround sound speakers from Logitech. Unfortunately, while the sound itself is decent enough, I've noticed a lot of slowdown when playing the game. My first assumption is that it's related to the sound card (a SB audigy 2 ZS) because GH3 is a very sound intensi've game, and ... well ... I'm not using official CL drivers because there isn't one. But I would like to know if there's anything I can do, with what is available now, to not have so much stuttering in playing this game. As an aside, the 'vista rating' on my computer is 4.4, and I turned down the in game settings, but I'm still getting stuttering and a bit of crackle while playing. Does anybody have any advice? Is there a new driver I can try (I haven't visited this site in a few months). To the administrators, is there any news at all of a new driver being released for the Audigy 2 series? If the answer is 'no, there will never be an official driver', I'm fine with that, because at least I'll know. But really, any advice and information would be greatly appreciated.

I'm running a Audigy both on Vista 32 and 64 bit.
With the Vista Audigy CD released by daniel_k.
Even Alchemy works like a dream.
Supports all Audigy card with a Hardware EMU0K2 DSP chipset (OEM / Retail models):
- Audigy (including ES, MP3+, X-Gamer and Platinum)
- Audigy 2 (including Value, Platinum and Platinum Ex)
- Audigy 2 ZS (including Platinum and Platinum Pro)
- Audigy 4 (including SE and Pro)
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You’ll experience it all from the intimacy of a small club to the massive main stage of an epic outdoor festival. You’ll play as the lead guitarist of multiple bands across a wide variety of music genres.
GHTV:
GHTV is a 24-hour, always-on, playable music video network where you and your guitar are the star. With over 150 videos available from the start, the feed will be continuously updated with hits from yesterday and today.
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Hey lilrileydragon-
WHO’S READY TO ROCK?
Yeah, me too! Right now, we don’t have any information regarding the availability of additional controllers for the new Guitar Hero game, but both Veroku_Chan and bobberuchi have provided some great insight into generally what happens with the launches of peripheral-based games like this.
I would recommend watching BestBuy.com as we get closer to launch to see what may be released around that time.
Thanks for posting!
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Stuttering and lag during playback when hooked up to TV

Hi,
I recently bought the monoprice mini display port to HDMI adapter for connecting my MBP to my HDTV. I managed to get everything connected without too much problem, but once I started playing HD content through iTunes I noticed that there was substantial stuttering and lag. If I disconnect my computer and watch through the laptop monitor there doesn't seem to be any problem. The strange thing is that my wife's 3-year old macbook doesn't seem to have any problem playing back the same content on our TV using a DVI to HDMI cable.
I've tried using both video chips. If anything, the 9600m GT chip seems to produce MORE stuttering, rather than less. Perhaps I'm dealing with a heat problem here?
Has anyone had similar problems? Any workarounds? I've tried both the 1080 and 720 settings- there wasn't much difference.
Thanks.

Thanks, however, I have the correct NTSC setting and I am plugging into the correct jack(s) on the tv but all the pictures are black and white.
I have tried this on several tv's all with the same black and white results
Any other ideas?

How do I use Garage Band to practice my guitar against lesson CDs and backing track CDs

How do I use Garage Band to practice my guitar against lesson CDs and backing track CDs

GarageBand on your Mac or on an iPad?
If you are asking abot GB on a Mac you do the following:
Create a new GarageBand project with a Guitar track
Insert the CD and drag the audio file of the Lesson track or backing track to an empty region below the tracks in the timeline of the GarageBand window.
Plug in a set of head phones and put them on to listen to your backing track.
Plug in your guitar and select the guitar track.
Click on the measure where you want to start your recording and select the guitar track.
Press "record" and start to play.
Regards
Léonie

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