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Joel,
My friend had the same problem; he never was able to fix it, although his sound
card was onboard the motherboard.  If I were you, I'd get the real thing: a
Soundblaster card.

Ryan

Joel Brown wrote:

> I just finshed buying a new Dell R450 decked out really nice.  It has a
> Crystal64 sound card which Nascar2 detects as Microsoft Sound System.  When
> I hit the Test button it plays sound but an octave higher than it should and
> it's playing the sound very fast too.  When I go into the game and try to
> race, the sound works but the motor sounds like it's turning 20,000rpm and
> the tire squeal effect sounds like someone scraping their fingernails across
> a chalkboard.
>
> Anyone else having this problem and know how to fix it ?  I sent an email to
> Sierra but haven't heard back from them yet.

