Sound Problems

ZyRaxX · April 2003

<div class="IPBDescription">It's something wrong with my sound.....</div> There is something wrong with my sound... When i launch natural-selection and joining a game, my sound is terrible. But after retrying a couple of times the sound finally works perfectly... It's just so irritating, it takes me 5 mins to get the sound perfect.... Please can someone help me find out what's wrong? Thanks to all who helps me.....

ZyRaxX
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Thansal · April 2003

To little info mate, give us:

Sys Specs (sound card specialy, but everyting is good)
How it sounds 'terrible'

and as you work on that make sure you have the latest drivers for your sound card and what not <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'>

ZyRaxX · April 2003

There is nothing wrong with my soundcard... It works perfectly on all those other games, but not on natural-selection...
The sound is jarring, very irritating..... If i want to get the sound perfect, I may : reconnect a couple of times or custom games-internet games-done-done-configuration-audio-done-done-custom games-internet games-done-done.... and so on, until the sound is perfectly....
Thanx if someone helps me!-.. <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/confused.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='confused.gif'>

Thanatos · April 2003

More specs would help.

But I suspect that your comp is having a hard time keeping up. I had a some sound issues before I upgraded to a faster processor. Choppy sound, massiv lag during choppy sound and so forth.

Since soundcards run through the PCI bus and have a low priority, sound is the first thing (well almost anyways) that suffers when your processor is under pressure. You could try to give the soundcard a higher priority but there is a big chance that other devices will suffer instead.

Also, try allocating more memory to Halflife by adding -heapsize xxxxx (xxxxx is amount of memory you wish to allocate ex: 48000) in the command line in your NS shortcut. It might help some but it´s not a perfect fix. Be careful not to allocate to much memory because your OS might crash.

Thanatos.

ZyRaxX · April 2003

I have a nice computer... 2,4 ghz, 512 ddr-ram, GeForce 4 titanium v.4600
It's nothing wrong with my computer! <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/mad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='mad.gif'>

Thansal · April 2003

look, we are trying to help you

do not lash at us or we will not want to help you.

now, you say ALL other gqames work, does that include other HL mods?
Did you listen when asked if you updated the drivers?
what OS are you running?

have you tried reinstalling NS?(If it is the only mod that borks) or HL(if all mods bork)

etc.

you have to give us some help or else we cant do anything, this is not a common problem that we simply know the solution to, so don't rip at us please.

ZyRaxX · April 2003

All other Half-Life mods works perfectly... What do you mean with updated my drivers?..... My OS is Windows XP professional.....
I have tried to reinstall ns plenty of times, but to no help...

Thansal · April 2003

ahh

start-->settings-->control Panel-->System-->Hardware-->Device Manager from here you can find the drivers you are ussing for all of your Hardware

go to the websites for each one and see if there are newer drivers

if so DOWNLOAD EM

oh and you know, when we ask for sys specs and you are having a problem with sound, knowing your ound card could help

ZyRaxX · April 2003

ok....I'll do.. but my sound card is "Sound Blaster Live. 5.1 digital audio".

SiSArvixx · April 2003

I have the same sound card and I have experinced some strange things with my sound too latly. When I join a game the ambience sound is really loud, but the other sounds (shooting, jumping walking etc) is very low. I havent tried dling the lasters drivers but ill try that.

Thansal · April 2003

@arvixx:
play with these values:

MP3Volume "0.800000" (general sound I think)
bgmvolume "1.000000" (weapons and stuff I think)
hisound "1.000000" (probably a simple toggle though not sure, ie 1 or 0)
suitvolume "0.250000" (probably not used for NS)
volume "0.800000" (over all volume)

ZyRaxX · April 2003

Is -heapsize 48000 much allocated memory, or little?

Jower · April 2003

Pretty much I believe

Diablus · April 2003

</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (ZyRaxX @ Apr 14 2003, 11:34 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> There is something wrong with my sound... When i launch natural-selection and joining a game, my sound is terrible. But after retrying a couple of times the sound finally works perfectly... It's just so irritating, it takes me 5 mins to get the sound perfect.... Please can someone help me find out what's wrong? Thanks to all who helps me.....

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Did you hear like staticy sounds? i get that too and i think its b//c my sound card doesnt play deep base and u know rumblingcomes alittle staticy on sum maps and after a feew exits out of ns then retyingh works fine too!

ZyRaxX · May 2003

I know whats the problem... It's something with my headset.... I turned on some speakers, then the sound worked perfect..But with my headset It's not perfect...

I dunno why, but the headset works perfectly on all those other games.. But not with ns!

Grunt256 · June 2004

hey diablus i get that too its a bit staticy bu only on some maps

Grunt256 · June 2004

yeah diablus i get that problem too its a bit staticy or crackly on some maps (mostly NS maps not custom)

Caboose · June 2004

Yea, I guess I'm having the same problem...

Soundcard VIA onboard soundcard.
Processor Athlon XP 2100+
Video Card Radeon 9000 Pro
OS: Mandrake Linux 10 with cedega 4.0 (To run windows games.)

Every other mod works fine except NS. The sound comes and goes except for the ambiant music...

:edit: N/m I found out it was a priority thing. I changed the priority of wineserver from 0 to 15 and It's perfect now.

Thansal · June 2004

/me points out that this post is over a year old........

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