Sound Issues In Xp
Wingnut64
Join Date: 2003-04-27 Member: 15895Members
Join Date: 2003-04-27 Member: 15895Members
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<div class="IPBDescription">Garbled Sound with SB Audigy in XP Pro</div>I just installed XP Pro on my machine, and right after installing all my drivers and a few games, I noticed a problem with NS.
While firing a weapon (or even hearing a weapon being fired), I hear the shots jumbled together, almost out of order( irregular bursts, not a smooth stream), like the audio buffer is garbling them. Alien weapons have a similar effect, and after ~15 minutes the game is unplayable as any sound I hear is so garbled I can only hear static. This did not happen to me under Win 98, and I have an identical hardware config. This does not happed in regular HL (don't have any other mods installed yet to test it under). I haven't noticed it in other games, but I've only had this setup for a few days.
What I have:
Asus A7N8X-Deluxe MB
XP 3000+ CPU
512 MB RAM
Asus 8440-TD (GeForce4 TI 4400 128MB)
SoundBlaster Audigy X-Gamer (Latest Creative Drivers)
XP Pro build 2600, SP1
DirectX 9.0b
What i've done:
Toggling EAX effects and High Quality Sounds has no effect.
Updating soundcard drivers has no effect.
Re-installing HL/NS has no effect.
I'll try to remove the SB Audigy and turn on my onboard sound, but I'd like to fix the problem w/ my Audigy.
Thx in advance.
While firing a weapon (or even hearing a weapon being fired), I hear the shots jumbled together, almost out of order( irregular bursts, not a smooth stream), like the audio buffer is garbling them. Alien weapons have a similar effect, and after ~15 minutes the game is unplayable as any sound I hear is so garbled I can only hear static. This did not happen to me under Win 98, and I have an identical hardware config. This does not happed in regular HL (don't have any other mods installed yet to test it under). I haven't noticed it in other games, but I've only had this setup for a few days.
What I have:
Asus A7N8X-Deluxe MB
XP 3000+ CPU
512 MB RAM
Asus 8440-TD (GeForce4 TI 4400 128MB)
SoundBlaster Audigy X-Gamer (Latest Creative Drivers)
XP Pro build 2600, SP1
DirectX 9.0b
What i've done:
Toggling EAX effects and High Quality Sounds has no effect.
Updating soundcard drivers has no effect.
Re-installing HL/NS has no effect.
I'll try to remove the SB Audigy and turn on my onboard sound, but I'd like to fix the problem w/ my Audigy.
Thx in advance.
Comments
As to answer your question, it seems that many people are having sound related issues these days. I just reformated my computer a week ago (using winXP) and noticed that I too is having some sound problems, but my sound problems will actually crash NS back to desktop. However, I did not have these problems before I reformated and I was still using winXP too. Seeing how you using the same Audigy card as me I was able to fix my problems by not installing the audigy driver patch for EAX 4.0. If this does not fix your problem you can always make sure that you have the latest dirvers for all your hardware. Hope this helps and good luck!
150 megs of ram for xp..wow I have no idea what your running, 100 megs for xp is all you need for ram, and you'll be good. <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif' /><!--endemo-->
Now, about the soundproblem, i've had this error aswel, could be so many things, you'll have to eliminate:
Steam? (reinstall)
Sound Drivers? (download and install updates and or older versions)
Windows (is all the config right?)
Hardware (is the sound card 100% ok?)
If u've tested/tried all that, and still don't have results, i'm gonna eat my hat. (don't have a hat tho O.o)