Sound Problem

chronos

<div class="IPBDescription">my sound keeps messing up</div> every once in a while when in ns, my sound will be normal, then switch between highpitched stuff, and very quiet static sound. it doesnt happen in any other program on my computer and i dont know what it would be. it just started happening recently so im not sure what to do. can someone help me

DOOManiac

Try disabling EAX. It caused a few problems for me, maybe its causing problems for you.

Akanit

I have the exact same problem!!
Short bursts of static and/or laggy sound
(especially when there's a lot of noice going on)
but believe me I'm not sitting with a pice of
junk here. I run a 750MHz, 256 MBRAM, WIN-XP
with hercules 64MB graphics card and
Soundblaster Live 1024
(Btw sounblaster company sucks! keeping broken
drivers on website... bad form!!!).

I run NS on my CS-retail since I've lent my HL
to a friend so that he could try out NS ( <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='wink.gif'><!--endemo--> )
he has no problems with this although
he experienced the same with GhostRecon.

I've tried new drivers, no frivers, driving to the gas station,
changing settings (including EAX and no that's not it) but
nothing seems to work. Everything is working fine...
only NS sounds are messing up. It's playable but darn annoying.

Akanit

cr3am

bind a key to "stopsound" and push it whenever the noise gets annoying. Also, if when the sound is loud you get crackling... turn down the computer volume and turn up the speaker volume, that has helped me in many games

Akanit

Tried all that but get this...
when I installed over HL instead of my
CS retail the sound was crystal clear....
Obviously a quirk <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='sad.gif'><!--endemo-->

Well anyway, I guess it (perhaps)
get fixed sometime in the meantime
I'll use HL as base.

sirfreake

Should've checked your sound accelleration
level as well.

Start, Run, Dxdiag

and then the sound tab, if you have it set all the way
up then it should run fine. Also EAX is bad, kills me all
the time.

Apart from that, check DirectX, as always. But you say
it runs with HL as a base instead of CS. Odd.

~*Dead*Chair