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Title: Sound issues
Post by: Lutz on October 10, 2003, 04:35:36 pm: Hey all.
Loaded up FreeSpace 2 onto my new PC and I'm having trouble...
First off if I run the game in XP the after burner doesn't work. Odd.
If I run in 95 or 98 though it works fine.

Worse though is my sound. The noise of the beam lasers firing is jamming, and constantly being played. I've got the latest drivers etc, but I dont' have a very fancy sound card, just the bog standard one. I've downloaded the patches to v1.2, but it's made no difference.

The daft thing is is that my last PC worked it fine, and they're identical almost (2.2ghz to 2.8ghz, 256 ram to 512 ram, 64 GeForce 3 to 128 GeForce 4) so both should run it.

Can anyone help me here?

Cheers all,

Lutz :(
Title: Sound issues
Post by: magatsu1 on October 10, 2003, 04:38:23 pm: reinstall. Hey, try the easy things first, right ?
Title: Sound issues
Post by: Lutz on October 10, 2003, 04:40:38 pm: Yeah, tried the re-install and tried every compatability mode both with and without patch. I've been at this for 2 and a half hours. I'm not a happy chappy... :(
Title: Sound issues
Post by: castor on October 10, 2003, 06:14:56 pm: For the afterburner thingy, try a search within this forum (something like "afterburner AND XP"); there has been some discussion on that matter before.

Regarding the sound, dunno.. maybe just another side-effect of running FS2 with improper XP settings..

EDIT: umm.. anyone with 'the beam' at hand..
Title: Sound issues
Post by: Lutz on October 11, 2003, 01:59:51 am: Cheers Castor, but the afterburner thing ain't the main problem. It only affect XP mode, but the sound thing affects ALL modes regardless.
My sound card isn't actually a soundcrad, it's C-Medias on board sound, but it's the same one that was on my last PC, and that PC was fine with FS2
Title: Sound issues
Post by: Bobboau on October 11, 2003, 02:11:38 am: I think it's
:welcome:
[edit]yup
Title: Sound issues
Post by: Lutz on October 11, 2003, 02:19:15 am: Cheers! :)
Title: Sound issues
Post by: karajorma on October 11, 2003, 04:17:41 am: The afterburner thing is a known problem with XP. Running in compatability mode usually makes it go away. No idea about the other problem though.
Title: Sound issues
Post by: Lutz on October 11, 2003, 07:19:02 am: Well, I never had the Afterburner problem on my last XP machine... ???
I'm getting a sound card from a mate on Monday. If I put that in... Well, I'm crossing all fingers and toes
Title: Sound issues
Post by: diamondgeezer on October 11, 2003, 07:21:28 am: Er... where'd you get your sound drivers from, Windows Update or your motherboard manufacturer?
Title: Sound issues
Post by: karajorma on October 11, 2003, 07:28:49 am: It doesn't affect every copy of XP and the fact that the problem only appeared a few months back makes me suspect that it's caused by an XP specific update of some kind.
Title: Sound issues
Post by: Lutz on October 11, 2003, 07:32:56 am: My sound drivers... not sure. Getting replaced on Monday though with a different card. My mobo is the one that came in the PC, not sure how to find out what it is. My Windows update is from M$.

So the problem has been reported before if you say it appeared a few months back?
Title: Sound issues
Post by: diamondgeezer on October 11, 2003, 07:41:24 am: Try checking your hardware manager, that ought to give you some clues as to your mobo model. Failing that just take the side of the damn thing off and look at it :nod:
Title: Sound issues
Post by: Lutz on October 11, 2003, 07:58:29 am: Well, I've scoured the hardware manager and run "dxdiag" but still no luck. I'll wait till Monday to take the casing apart as it's a ***** to do so, and I'd rather only do it once. I'll check when I put in teh sound card.
Title: Sound issues
Post by: karajorma on October 11, 2003, 10:24:24 am: We had two years or so with XP and I never heard of this problem and now we've 5-6 cases of it appearing. Sounds like it's not XP itself that's the problem but either a new driver or an update to me.

Just out of interest has your ETS bar also stopped working? The two problems often occured together.
Title: Sound issues
Post by: Lutz on October 11, 2003, 10:36:39 am: Sorry, whats the ETS bar?
Title: Sound issues
Post by: karajorma on October 11, 2003, 10:45:14 am: The bar that allows you to alter the engine, guns and shield recharge settings.
Title: Sound issues
Post by: Lutz on October 11, 2003, 10:53:29 am: That's working fine that is. When I was testing it in XP (To see if the sound fixed it sefl) I had no burners, so I dumped most of my energy into my engines.
Title: Sound issues
Post by: hobnob1978 on October 11, 2003, 06:08:38 pm: Odd.

Ive downloaded DX9.0b last week and no problems
got the 43.45 drivers from vid and the lastest sound card drivers from creative.

downloaded all the sys patches that are critical for winXP.

Don`t have this problem I`m afraid. Umm has your copy of FS2 been patched? I know there have been problems of varying types with the unpatched version on XP.
Title: Sound issues
Post by: Lutz on October 12, 2003, 08:32:38 am: I've tried all compatability modes both patched (v1.20) and unpatched (V1.00) and all my windows updates are, erm, up to date. I'm running Direct X9 naturally.
Title: Sound issues
Post by: karajorma on October 12, 2003, 08:44:33 am: Have you tried FS2_open? I doubt it will solve your problems but it's worth having anyway so it won't hurt to try it.
Title: Sound issues
Post by: Lutz on October 12, 2003, 08:51:19 am: Sorry, what's that? Not heard of it?
Title: Sound issues
Post by: karajorma on October 12, 2003, 12:18:15 pm: :) There is a whole forum devoted to it on this board :)

FS2_open is the version of FS2 using the improvements the community have added. Have a look on this thread (http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/topic,17284.0.html) for more details.

It may not solve your problem but it has got a lot of bugs fixed that the retail version doesn't so you may get lucky.
Title: Sound issues
Post by: Lutz on October 12, 2003, 12:21:31 pm: Cool! :)

I'll give it a whirl. :)
Title: Sound issues
Post by: Lutz on October 27, 2003, 02:41:27 pm: OK, fixed it!

Thought I'd post the answer here should anyone else have problems:

Basically the acceleration on my soundcard was too high! A mate and I think that the more "advanced" features on the beams, like echos and what not, were getting jammed somewhere along the way. Reason being is my framerate has also been improved. I know my graphics card is poo, but it should still breeze through FS2.

Anyway, I toned down the accelration on my sound card and it's fixed ALL my problems (Except the afterburner, but 95 and/or 98 compatibility fixes that)

So there we have it. Framrate issues affected by sound. Odd eh?
Title: Sound issues
Post by: hobnob1978 on October 27, 2003, 07:28:11 pm: Solution, get rid on onboard sound and buy an Audigy2 LOL....
Title: Sound issues
Post by: Johnmike on November 04, 2003, 03:02:55 pm: You know you love Macro****. :D
Title: Sound issues
Post by: DeepSpace9er on November 04, 2003, 09:58:06 pm: Since we are talking about sound problems: My sound card does something very very strange whenever a destroyer or higher ship is in the battlefield. I get static through my speakers the second i see a destroyer. The static is lasting even after the destroyer leaves. I dont get any static from beams, just when a large ship comes in or is in. I dont have a fancy card either, an SB PCI 512. :confused: help
Title: Sound issues
Post by: Johnmike on November 05, 2003, 06:22:14 am: http://www.etech4sale.com/commerce/catalog/product.jsp?product_id=1948

Get the drivers from:

http://us.creative.com/support/downloads/

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