Tactics 3D: Issues with scratchy sound, other questions

Hai Guyz,
I have recently purchased a Tactics Rage 3D headset. It was on clearance at the poast exchange marked down from $80 to $40. I would like to say that first of all I love the software that comes with it. Anyway, I have managed to install the headset with no issues. However, oftentimes the sound will be crystal clear for several minutes, then suddenly becomes scratchy. Oftentimes, closing the program I am using (E.G. Second Life, Itunes, Firefox, Skype) remedies this. However, when I am playing a Game that takes a long time to load, closing and relaunching the program is a bit of a hassle. I have posted to the Creative Facebook wall, and a representative suggesting installing the headset on another computer, as well as re-installing the drivers and firmware. I am unable to use another PC as I only own one laptop, and am uncomfortable installing things on a friend's computer. Anyway, here are my questions below:
1.) Is there a solution to the issues I have had with scratchy sound? The box advertises the product as a gaming headset, but gaming is where I have the most issues(As closing most other programs takes only a few seconds).
2.) Is there a smaller dongle available? The bluetooth Dongle for my wireless mouse is small and unobtrusive enough that I can simply leave it in. However, the one that came with the headset makes it difficult to use my mouse, as well as pack my laptop(since I have to take the dongle out).
3.) I have noticed while browsing there forums that there is a v1 and v2 of the tactics Rage. How am I able to tell which version that I own?
4.) I wish to give customer feedback on both the pros and cons of this headset, where would be the most appropriate place to do so?

Hi Sinophile,
From what I know, there is no smaller dongle available.
For V2.0 of the headset, V2.0 is written on the packaging box. I have checked the firmware download page for both Tactic3D Rage Wireless and Tactic3D Rage Wireless V2.0 it seems that they are having the same firmware. And the firmware upgrade will make the headset support USB audio on PlayStation 4.
The firmware update will upgrade the Tactic3D Rage Wireless to have the same feature as Tactic3D Rage Wireless V2.0
However, it is not recommended to upgrade the headset's firmware as there are many threads in this forum that says upgrading the firmware bricks the USB dongle and their headset do not work anymore.
You may want to try to give your feedback by clicking 'Contact Us'>'Email Us' on Creative's website.

Similar Messages

  • Issues with loud sound settings over headphones.

    My Ipad 2 has been having some issues with the sound settings when I put the volume up loud. When I go past a certain level there is a "popping" sound and the volume cuts out all together.  If I reduce the volume this popping sound happens again and the volume comes back on.
    This only happens through the headphones, and doesn't happen with the external speaker.
    Have I stuffed up one of the settings? Is this an OS update issue or do I need to replace the headphone jack?
    I have reset all the settings, but haven't done a complete restore yet.
    Thanks

    Why is everybody posting Flash Player questions in the Shockwave Player forum???

  • Issues with External Sound Devices & others - 13" Late 2011

    Good day community,
    Out of curiosity, I run Diablo 3 on OS X and its been unplayable since ROS expansion, massive fps drops and crashes, Blizzard claims Apple stopped improving hd3000 drivers on 10.8.3, is this true? Also when I run the game through windows via bootcamp it performs better and doesn't not crash, is this related to hd3000 driver support still being improved in windows?
    Other issues I'm experiencing, facetime most of the time fails if I try to pickup a call from the macbook, sometimes it notifies me of the incoming call (iphone 5s) sometimes it doesn't. Bluetooth doesn't work, not even with apple devices, I can't pair any of them. External sound devices such as m-audio fast track pro, native instruments audio 8 dj, allen & heath xone 4d, they all have latency issues and sound clips and pops, even with the onboard sound I experience this if I open a couple graphic editing software while playing itunes. Checked sample rate in audio/midi setup, drivers, firmware, everything seems up to date, I'm not using a USB hub, I updated to Yosemite from Mavericks, which was a terrible upgrade from Mountain Lion and it completely lagged the computer, so when I upgraded to Yosemite I ran disk utility from boot and apparently repaired the hard drive successfully. Performance is better but none of the above issues were solved.
    So I'm thinking about formatting from scratch but wanted to drop a line here and see if others have any of these issues and/or some tips.
    Thank you for your time.
    OS X 10.10.1
    hd3000 (512mb)
    8gb ram
    i5

    Hi Lyndon4321,
    I know that can be frustrating when using an external display, but take a look at the article below to continue troubleshooting. I would take a look at Reset the system and work you way down. 
    Apple computers: Troubleshooting issues with video on internal or external displays
    https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201177
    Take it easy,
    -Norm G.  

  • Issue with reporting and additional question

    Hello,
    1st Question:
    I have ran into an issue with the interal server reporting.
    If the file is published as an html file, then the reporting works as intended
    (Able to see with Quiz Analyzer due to it creating an xml file in the appropriate folder)
    However, if I publish the file as a swf file, the reporting does not seem to be working at all.
    Does this mean that swf reporting is not supported with the internal server? or?
    2nd Question
    When reporting likert, as expected the quiz analyzer makes it so that we have go into each individual person to see their inputs.
    With that I am able to export it as an excel file for each individual person.
    However, is there a way to mass export all the individual responses as 1 excel file with the quiz analyzer?
    (Would it be better using Adobe Connect for reporting, or other lms systems?)
    Thank you so much for your help!

    Hi,
    Quick thigh when you get an error stating "unknown error" means something wrong with your server internal post result php or some cross domain issue. It will be great if you can send us the project for analysis. Please send your project on [email protected]
    Will analyze your issue and will get back to you, also I insist if you can provide few steps you opted while setting internal server reporting and the internal server on some machine. This will be very helpful to trace the issue.
    Regards
    Shriyansh
    Adobe Engineering Team

  • Issue with "read by other session" and a parallel MERGE query

    Hi everyone,
    we have run into an issue with a batch process updating a large table (12 million rows / a few GB, so it's not that large). The process is quite simple - load the 'increment' from a file into a working table (INCREMENT_TABLE) and apply it to the main table using a MERGE. The increment is rather small (usually less than 10k rows), but the MERGE runs for hours (literally) although the execution plan seems quite reasonable (can post it tomorrow, if needed).
    The first thing we've checked is AWR report, and we've noticed this:
    Top 5 Timed Foreground Events
    Event     Waits     Time(s)     Avg wait (ms)     % DB time     Wait Class
    DB CPU           10,086           43.82     
    read by other session     3,968,673     9,179     2     39.88     User I/O
    db file scattered read     1,058,889     2,307     2     10.02     User I/O
    db file sequential read     408,499     600     1     2.61     User I/O
    direct path read     132,430     459     3     1.99     User I/OSo obviously most of the time was consumed by "read by other session" wait event. There were no other queries running at the server, so in this case "other session" actually means "parallel processes" used to execute the same query. The main table (the one that's updated by the batch process) has "PARALLEL DEGREE 4" so Oracle spawns 4 processes.
    I'm not sure how to fix this. I've read a lot of details about "read by other session" but I'm not sure it's the root cause - in the end, when two processes read the same block, it's quite natural that only one does the physical I/O while the other waits. What really seems suspicious is the number of waits - 4 million waits means 4 million blocks, 8kB each. That's about 32GB - the table has about 4GB, and there are less than 10k rows updated. So 32 GB is a bit overkill (OK, there are indexes etc. but still, that's 8x the size of the table).
    So I'm thinking that the buffer cache is too small - one process reads the data into cache, then it's removed and read again. And again ...
    One of the recommendations I've read was to increase the PCTFREE, to eliminate 'hot blocks' - but wouldn't that make the problem even worse (more blocks to read and keep in the cache)? Or am I completely wrong?
    The database is 11gR2, the buffer cache is about 4GB. The storage is a SAN (but I don't think this is the bottleneck - according to the iostat results it performs much better in case of other batch jobs).

    OK, so a bit more details - we've managed to significantly decrease the estimated cost and runtime. All we had to do was a small change in the SQL - instead of
    MERGE /*+ parallel(D DEFAULT)*/ INTO T_NOTUNIFIED_CLIENT D /*+ append */
      USING (SELECT
          FROM TMP_SODW_BB) S
      ON (D.NCLIENT_KEY = S.NCLIENT_KEY AND D.CURRENT_RECORD = 'Y' AND S.DIFF_FLAG IN ('U', 'D'))
      ...(which is the query listed above) we have done this
    MERGE /*+ parallel(D DEFAULT)*/ INTO T_NOTUNIFIED_CLIENT D /*+ append */
      USING (SELECT
          FROM TMP_SODW_BB AND DIFF_FLAG IN ('U', 'D')) S
      ON (D.NCLIENT_KEY = S.NCLIENT_KEY AND D.CURRENT_RECORD = 'Y')
      ...i.e. we have moved the condition from the MERGE ON clause to the SELECT. And suddenly, the execution plan is this
    OPERATION                           OBJECT_NAME             OPTIONS             COST
    MERGE STATEMENT                                                                 239
      MERGE                             T_NOTUNIFIED_CLIENT
        PX COORDINATOR
          PX SEND                       :TQ10000                QC (RANDOM)         239
            VIEW
              NESTED LOOPS                                      OUTER               239
                PX BLOCK                                        ITERATOR
                  TABLE ACCESS          TMP_SODW_BB             FULL                2
                    Filter Predicates
                      OR
                        DIFF_FLAG='D'
                        DIFF_FLAG='U'
                  TABLE ACCESS          T_NOTUNIFIED_CLIENT       BY INDEX ROWID    3
                    INDEX               AK_UQ_NOTUNIF_T_NOTUNI    RANGE SCAN        2
                      Access Predicates
                        AND
                          D.NCLIENT_KEY(+)=NCLIENT_KEY
                          D.CURRENT_RECORD(+)='Y'
                      Filter Predicates
                        D.CURRENT_RECORD(+)='Y' Yes, I know the queries are not exactly the same - but we can fix that. The point is that the TMP_SODW_BB table contains 1639 rows in total, and 284 of them match the moved 'IN' condition. Even if we remove the condition altogether (i.e. 1639 rows have to be merged), the execution plan does not change (the cost increases to about 1300, which is proportional to the number of rows).
    But with the original IN condition (that turns into an OR combination of predicates) in the MERGE ON clausule, the cost suddenly skyrockets to 990.000 and it's damn slow. It seems like a problem with cost estimation, because once we remove one of the values (so there's only one value in the IN clausule), it works fine again. So I guess it's a planner/estimator issue ...

  • Continuous Issue with No Sound in MB Air late 2013

    Not sure how many folks are also having this issue but upon installing Mac OS X, Mavericks, I am having continuing issues of no sound when my computer wakes from sleep or shutdown. Have reset SMC and PRAM...issue persists...suggestions?

    Already checked before doing doing diagnostics and pmu resets and such but thanks. For any future responders I did fully check the sound preferences in systems preferences and all setting in audio/midi setup as well as the settings for my firewire card for my mackie board.
    Thanks again.

  • How to deal with scratchy sound in AVI file from BetaCam masters

    Recently, I got out some BetaCam edit masters of videos I produced in the 1990s. The university instructional technology center transfered the masters to Mini-DV tape, then made AVI files from the Mini-DV tapes. The AVI files sound fine when I play them from my hard drive, but when I use the AVI files in Premiere Pro CS4 and 1.5, the sound is scratchy--sort of like a scratchy record. So then I got the Mini-DV tape and decided to import the program, playing it on my Canon GL1 camcorder and capturing it in PP CS4. But the sound is even worse. Please advise. These programs are too important to not be able to convert them to YouTube and DVD formats.

    If things work OK in "programA" but not in "programB" (B being Premiere) that is usually a codec issue
    AVI is simply a wrapper... what is the codec?
    The first question at the end of this link has a link to the free GSPOT to find the codec
    First, work through all of the steps here http://ppro.wikia.com/wiki/Troubleshooting
    If your problem isn't fixed after you follow all of the steps, report back with the DETAILS asked for in the questions at the end of that link

  • Please help - issue with ng sound when scrolling

    Heya all,
    I have an ASUS P5B Deluxe Wi-Fi board with the latest BIOS (26), Vista Ultimate 32bit, a P82 case, E6400 @ 3.2GHz, 2GB RAM, 8800GTS and a lovely x-fi xtreme-music soundcard, which sits in the bottom PCI slot - the gfx card is obviously in the top PCI-E slot.
    Basically, whenever I'm listening to music via my PC (usual app Winamp, although WMP is used too at times) or watching DVDs etc, any movement of the mouse, or rather the scroll wheel of the mouse, results in a loud crackling and breakup of audio.
    In fact, after some further testing, it seems like whenever something graphically changes on the screen (whether it be scrolling, a web page loading, a window opening etc), anything at all, this loud and ultra annoying issue occurs. The sound at start-up also crackles and breaks up.
    I've tried reinstalling drivers for the x-fi and for my gfx card - neither helped. I've tried different drivers for both my GFX and x-fi. Again, no joy.
    I'm now using the Creative official vista drivers CD and we updated the drivers to 2.5.002. GFX-wise I'm using the latest NVidia publically released drivers as per their site.
    I'm at my wits end - can anyone help or throw any light on the issue please?
    Oddly, I've only just re-installed Vista as I've fitted a new HDD. The installation before, with exactly the same board, drivers etc etc, worked fine.
    Perhaps I should reformat Vista and try again?

    Amit,
    Thank you so much for your response. I also never thought that it would behave differently.
    I am just using one variable called CurrYear in my BR.
    Yes, I am guessing something is going wrong with the second point that you mentioned. That I have 0 level members selected in Page/POV and in EAS it is manually taking parent values.
    Well, I did a comparision but didn't see any differences though. I am using SETUPDATE CALC ON statement in my BR.
    Can you suggest me on how can I fix this?
    Thank you !
    ~ Adella

  • IChat for inter office comm. issues with seeing any other buddies on the sa

    Hello Apple Forums!
    I have a question regarding my ichat service running on a 10.6.2 machine (x-serve)
    I had 1 user today that I set up on our ichat, and when I added her, logged in to the server, however no buddy list. My experience with all other users is when they are added, they immediately see all the other users who are logged in. Im not sure how to resolve this. I know have to add buddies to all the internal employees in order for them to see her. Can someone please tell me what I am doing wrong?
    Please let me know what other information you need.
    Thanks,
    Originally posted in wrong 10.5 forum, reposting responses here:
    tibor.moldovan
    If the service is running OK for the other users, it is possible that that user's iChat program needs to have its preferences cleared.
    username/Library/Preferences/com.apple.iChat...
    and then set up that iChat account again.
    If you try to set up a test account does the same thing happen?
    Tim Harris
    Hello,
    This is the iChat 10.5 server forum. There is a 10.6 forum which is perhaps a better place to post your question.
    I know have to add buddies to all the internal employees in order for them to see her. Can someone please tell me what I am doing wrong?
    Are you saying you HAVE added them, and none show?
    And finally my response to the above 2 Q's:
    cpguru21
    tibor.moldovan:
    I have researched this issue for a while now. I have cleared all the local preferences on the end users machine. I have not set up a test user, however I will. All other clients I have added recently, the entire "workgroup" (everyone part of the same workgroup) show up. Come to think of it, this particular user is in more than one workgroup. Hmmm. Maybe this is related to what is going on? If the "workgroup" group is not primary, then she wouldn't necessarily see everyone else?
    Tim:
    Adding (or sending buddy requests) to the other users in the ichat server (this is a local ichat for interoffice comm only) when accepted, those "added" buddies show up fine and can communicate.

    Thanks for reply Tim.
    The "issue" may not be an issue. the issue may be my understanding of workgroups and how they come into play for iChat.
    My initial problem/issue:
    when I added a particular user to ichat, from our internal jabber (ichat) server, the account added fine, however there were no other users in the list.
    all other users that I added:
    when adding to our internal ichat server, all of the other users showed up.
    The difference between the users that had everyone show up and the one that had no other users show up:
    all users are part of workgroup "workgroup". The user I added that had no "buddies" in her ichat list, was also part of a 2 other groups "workgroup", "fin", and "acctpay".
    So i guess my question is, how can I make the user with no buddies, show all the other users on the ichat server?
    thanks!

  • No Sound Issue with PHASE88 sound card

    K8T Neo series motherboard, socket 754 - NO SOUND ISSUE
    I'm using a AMD athlon64 processor
    I am having problems with my PHASE88 sound card. Windows XP regonises it and says the "driver is enabled but has not been started." I can't fix this problem in the device manager anywhere and so I was thinking it may be a conflict with the onboard Audio. I can't find in the BIOS where to disable the on board audio - can someone help?

    Hi
    Page 3-20 of manual
    Integrated peripherals - onboardPCI controller - AC97 sound -disable it.
    You may have to install device with New Hardware Wizard in Control panel.
    cheers
    Jocko

  • Issues with flash and other adobe products.

    Ok, so i've been using flash player for quite a number of years now aswell as other products like acrobat reader when i used windows, over the years flash player has developed into a totally inneffecient and almost unusable product. on top of the security issues of past with flash player and especially acrobat reader, with remote code execution vulnerabilities, i have, as have thousands of others noticed a very large decrease in performance with flash.
    i should note that a year or two ago, i could play HD flash content no problem, both 720 and 1080 resolutions, full screen without any issue. i would expect it to take up a decent portion of cpu cycles, which it did, i use to be able to run flash content at 720 with about 30 - 50% cpu usage. now it seems with flash 10 my AMD Athlon 4000+ struggles to play even 720 videos. My cpu is by no means a top performer, it is however capable of handling somewhere in the region of a billion instructions per second. for video content to require that amount of data to be handled is rediculous.
    HD content played back on my local machine using a different codec, my cpu barely even uses 5 - 10% cpu time, not only that, these videos have roughly about the same compression rates as flash videos. i just don't understand how flash can require so much resources without taking into account innefficient and bloated code.
    today i tried to access a web page that required flash content to display images, it was not a video, but an image database, going from one page to the next took somewhere in the region of 20 - 30 seconds, while my cpu maxed out at 100% and firefox stopped responding, which is totally unnacceptable.
    it wouldn't normally be a problem if there were good alternatives, but there aren't any, im stuck with this piece of crap software if i want to view any flash content. the only real alternative is to upgrade, which i am not prepared to do if the next version of flash is just going to push those boundries even further for features i don't need.
    my proposal is to:
    1. rewrite the code with effeciency rather than new features in mind, if that means getting able programmers in, then so be it.
    2. make flash modulous, where the basic package provides capabilties to play flash content and separate plugins to provide for all the individual unnecessary features that are not required for basic flash content. surely you can build a package that provides all those plugins for regular users and a basic package + optional plugins for those who know what they want or need.
    it really makes no sense why such a large corporation with all this experience to provide a product that quite simply.. sucks, well it does actually, either your programmers are incapable of creating a stable, efficient product or you are purposly trying to push hardware upgrades onto people. lets not forget that flash content is huge business on the web, adobe flash player has a strangle hold on that market, it would be naive to think that hardware vendors have not approached adobe with specifications to further make the money wheel go round.
    sort it out, because i for one, am in the process of completely removing my dependancy on adobe flash, if the right product comes along, others will do to, in droves. it's a bubble that is going to burst and there is no way back when you have millions of lines of quite frankly, amateurish code.

    Eric,
    The GTX 650 would be priced slightly higher than the GT 640 - and then, the OP would have to "settle" for only 1GB of graphics RAM instead of 2GB. The GTX 650 is currently not available with 2GB of RAM.
    Both the GT 640 and the GTX 650 are based on the same GPU - the GK107, with 384 CUDA cores. The two major differences are that the GK107 on the GTX 650 is clocked higher than the one on the GT 640, and that the GTX 650 has almost triple the memory bandwidth of the GT 640 (80 GB/s versus 28.8 GB/s).

  • Is anyone else having issues with their sound after installing 10.9?

    After installing Mavericks, if my computer goes to sleep, my sound stops working when it wakes up.  Is anyone else having this issue?  Is there a solution, is it an OS bug or is it something I can fix? 

    There are quite a number of people reporting this and there doesn't seem to be a permanent fix (other than rebooting and not letting your computer go back to sleep ) I'm sure it is on Apple's list of things to fix...and I know that's not of much immediate help.

  • Does anyone have an issue with the sound bug?

    The volume won't work there is no sound nor is there a icon when I increase or decrease the sound sometimes it works sometimes it doesn't.

    This seems to be a generic problem not only with InDesign but with many of the Creative Suite/Creative Cloud apps, namely the ones with large pasteboards surrounding the working area. I would very much like Adobe to implement a preference opportunity to disable Magic Mouse finger scrolling locally in these apps. IMHO, moving the pasteboard around is best done with space+click.
    It would be great if there were some kind of product enhancement tip link on Adobe's website, but I haven't found any.

  • Issue with recorded sound- sounds like the recordings were made underwater.

    Hi, all.
    I'm running Adobe Audition CS5.5 on a Toshiba Satellite Pro C660-1UZ with Windows 7 Home Premium installed. My machine meets all of the system requirements, as far as I can tell, and yet recordings made in Adobe Audition sound like they were made underwater.
    For reference:
    http://www.soundclick.com/player/single_player.cfm?q=hi&songID=11138745
    I'm not using an interface at present, but would be willing if there were a cheap model available.
    Thanks for any help,
    Casey

    I have a slightly older Toshiba Satellite notebook that I use for recording and mixing and I can tell you that the built in audio interface (i.e. the mni jack mic input) is worse than bad.  I can get away with it for Skype phone calls but that's about it--and even for Skype I often plug in my interface.
    The other thing going on with the sample you posted is that the levels are very low so the need to crank things up to hear anything just accentuates the noise.
    Basically, Audition just takes the signal provided by your mic and interface and doesn't affect the sound in any way until you deliberately add processing.  You really do need to invest in an interface--pretty well any two track USB devices will be a vast improvement on the Toshiba mic input. 

  • I have the issue with the sound going on my iPhone 4s I have tried everything undocking it works for a short period then it starts again phone out of warranty so Apple what do I do

    The sound keeps going on my iPhone 4s ringer continues to work when volume buttons are pressed the word ringer comes up but none of the indicator blocks for volume level tried all the fixes undocking from PC works for a while then it happens again but phone not in warranty so Apple what's the fix

    IF you are getting no messages period - not just no iMessages - then it is very likely a carrier issue. It is AT&T and not the phone. SMS travels via the carrier wave used to make phone calls - iMessages use data and go through Apple servers as you know
    If you are getting no messages at all - then I wonder if your cell service is ok or if you are in an area of strong signal - then does your SIM card need to be looked at

Maybe you are looking for