Sound Problems
ZyRaxX
Join Date: 2003-04-14 Member: 15486Members
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<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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ZyRaxX
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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 <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->
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....
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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.
It's nothing wrong with my computer! <!--emo&:angry:--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/mad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='mad.gif'><!--endemo-->
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.
I have tried to reinstall ns plenty of times, but to no help...
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
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)
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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!
I dunno why, but the headset works perfectly on all those other games.. But not with ns!
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.