Loss Of Sound Which Causes Major Lag

SkitZoFrenic

<div class="IPBDescription">Loss of sound which causes MAJOR LAG</div> I dont know why...but sometimes my computer loses sound when playin HL games. Yeah sure...ur probly sayin "QUIT UR BITCHIN" and I would say that too...if thats all that happened, but its not. When i lose sound (for no REASON....i dont alt tab out or nothin...just randomly) it causes my computer to run like its on 56k...or that it has 1000 ping! If ne one knows how to fix this...plz tell me.

I think its HL...but it could just be my computer

AMD Athlon 700 mHz
20 Gigs
384 Megs of RAM
NVIDIA RIVA TNT2 Model 64
Aureal Vortex 8810 Audio

PLZ PLZ Help me fix this! Thanks....

SkitZoFrenic

Does ANYONE know what to do?

Shockeh

I'm on a similar machine, but no probs.

I'd suggest ESCing to Menu, then going back in. I get a similar thing you see when I TAB out, and I solve it by ESC & back again.

Hope this helps.

SkitZoFrenic

No no no....When I lose the sound...I HAVE to restart....going out of the game..or closing HL does nothing. <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif'><!--endemo-->

I just....dont know what to do.....

*EDIT*
I doubt this will change anything...but when I lose the sound....my frame-rate goes to hell. Its goes to like....3 frames a sec! anyone heard of something similar?

Thansal

ok, alt tab outa the program

pull up the task manager (ie cntrlaltdell) and look at the processes tab, see what app is sucking your memory, record the name. Repeate a few times, if there seems to be some sorta task that sucks your mem, try killing it, or figguring out what it is and killing it before HL starts.

This is more in response to the random FPS drop, so it realy is just a crap shoot in the dark <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->

SkitZoFrenic

I doubt it will solve the sound prob, but ill try anyways. Thanks

eaglec

First off I'd blame any Norton product you have on your system... (I'm going to get sued at this rate <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif'><!--endemo--> )
tbh though diasable and TSR type progs you run, anti-virus, e-mail, IRC, real media, kazaa, everything so the only icon you have in the taskbar is the volume control and Start>>Programs>Start up is cleared completly.
You may have to temporarily uninstall firewalls and virus scanners to clear them from memory properly.
that will have eliminated software conflicts (more or less) so long as you clear every unessessary task from PC. Hit ctrl+alt+del and take a look at which tasks are running, copy them here and what OS you have just to be sure.
If it still hangs then you should look at DirectX, run dxdiag and go through all the tests. Finally do you play other games much? If you have a selection of similar games and it happens on all then disable legacy support of your soundblaster and check for and IRQ conflcts/overlaps.
If it is purely a Half-Life issue then have a look in the audio config properties of HL and NS before you mess with all this and disable all the extra features, cd music, high quality sound etc...

SkitZoFrenic

wow, damn. thanks d00d. ill try these things out and post what progs. i run.

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the thing circled in red....i couldnt close (norton). the rest of the crap....i have no clue WHAT they are

im runnin Windows XP Pro.

eaglec

The rest of it looks ok, all normal from what I can see but Norton Antivirus is still running - the one on red and the one next to it!
Uninstall to test it out - you can always add it back later.