Tutorial GameVibe Manual

Good to know you explored that direction. It is kind of low level'ish, and needs a lot of effort to get clean and right, but I hope maybe we will see something like an option in the future, where users can choose what audio engine to use. At least on paper nAudio seems promising as it supports ASIO, for example. I'll try to get a dump of my crash, maybe it'll give a hint why SlimDX/Xaudio2 crashes, really annoying issue, I really like SimTools otherwise, and do not want to get SimVibe.

BTW, one more suggestion, would it be possible to add a button to Game Manager, to turn off motion? That's handy for transducer setup

that button, disonnects evertything. I'd like button to keep vibe, and turn motion off.

I recently setup GameVibe with four Dayton Audio exciters to run RPM effect with Automobilista 2, and I'm having a weird issue: While driving there is a distinct "snapping" noise/distortion which is quite loud and occurs at a regular interval (less than 1 second apart). When I press the "esc" key while driving, and get to the initial pause menu, the snapping noise stops, and the exciters rumble without any issues on the pause screen. Besides this obnoxious noise, everything else seems to be functioning just fine. Anyone have an idea how to fix this?

I have not. I can give that a shot and report back. Any specific recomendation for make/model?

While I await the USB sound card, I took a quick video of the distortion/crackling noise. I apologize that you have to turn the volume way up on the video. My original estimate of the frequency was way off; it crackles/snaps multiple times per second. The noise stops on the pause menu as you can see, but the transducers continue to rumble at the correct frequency. Quite perplexing.

Thank you for the reply. I am in the US, so I ended up going with

Also, I know the manual says to use a quadraphonic setup, but if I am only using a two channel amplifier for my transducers, can I setup things as just stereo? I tried it this afternoon, and didn't notice any difference, which means the crackling/snapping was not resolved, but I was wondering if there were any other potentially adverse effects from using a stereo setup rather than the quadraphonic in the manual.

I tried the USB sound card today, and the problem still persists: No problem when the game is paused (e.g. transducers rumble at idling RPM without any distortion), but as soon as I unpause the game, the snapping/crackling comes back. Any other ideas? Seems like a problem with the interface between Game Vibe and AMS2, but I haven't tried another game yet. Perhaps I will do so and then report back, but hopefully someone here can solve it in the meantime.

Cable management is pretty good, and I've even tried it without any other components of my rig plugged in (besides monitor and PC). Same problem

Please help me, @yobuddy , you're my only hope. More troubleshooting tonight, and I've determined that the distortion/crackling/snapping is the result of a change in RPM. If I sit on the track either idling, or with the RPM at max, there isn't any distortion. Is it possible that Windows is adding some detrimental effect as the volume increases/decreases from the RPMs? Almost as if the system is adding an annoying noise whenever the volume changes.

FWIW, I ensured that all Windows system sounds are turned off.