Silienced Guns

[Jumbone]

Lately the noise for guns has been disappearing. When I first log in all sounds will be playing. After a bit the ships guns will go silient. Other noises are still played. Sometimes changing ships reverts the gun sound back on otherwise I'll have to exit and reenter the zone.

 

This error has kicked in with my new system using AC97 onboard sound. Also I installed the new DirectX 9c.

[FIX]

strange, im getting this too

[Bargeld]

I hate to say it, but I've had this prob before as well, and the only thing that *might* fix it is changing drivers. If you don't have the latest driverrs for the ac97, get them. If you have them already, and are having this prob, try rolling back to an older version of the drivers. The same is true with directX, but don't roll back the version of directX, leave it alone.

 

Imagine that each sound in the game is given a sound channel. The ac97 tends to "lose" a couple of those channels sometimes. Guns are the most noticable, but there are a couple other sounds that get muted, if I remember correctly.

 

Also, make sure you don't have any other apps running in the background... messengers like yahoo and msn can try to steal the focus of windows, and potentially screw something up.

[Jumbone]

I'm using the latest drivers for my NForce3/MSI board, the AC97 sound drivers are found with the nForce drivers. Realtek might have newer ones I suppose. I haven't checked.

 

You sure it's not the DX9c drivers. I've had two programs stop working once I installed 9c (Atari's Temple of Elelemtnal Evil and PowerDVD-XP).

[Smong]

It's the onboad sound ac97/cmedia, it is so bad it is even only half supported in linux.

[Dav]

AC'97 sound is -*BAD WORD*-, i have had several problems with it including the one you describe here.

 

Ususally a simple restart solves the problem for me.

[Camel]

When I do start > run > dxdiag > sounds > turn its hardware acceleration off, it fixes the sound from not disappearing totally, but it does sound a bit crappy then(delay)..

 

To me it only happens to my blue bullets, after like 5 or 10 mins.. frustrating. Also got a onboard ac97.

[»Maverick]

I also have onboard ac97 sound card and I also have problem with sound. when you are firing bullets after eachother it only will make sound of first bullet, 5th bullet, 10th bullet, and so on.

 

I will update the ac97 drivers and will try to disable the hardware accleration. Hope it will solve it

 

Cheers

MMave

[»Maverick]

w00h00

 

problem solved. The new drivers did it :onethumb:

 

-MMaverick

[Camel]

It works with hardware acceleration turned on? I've tried new drivers several times but it doesnt seem to work.. Where did you get these drivers from?

 

I've got:

 

Driver date: 21-6-2004

 

Driver version: 5.10.0.5620

[»Maverick]

Yes it works for me with hardware acceleration on (in dxdiag). I got the new drivers via http://www.msi.com.tw because I have a motherboard of MSI .

 

-MMave

[»Maverick]

Great... Now sometimes the sound of the guns (not the bombs or any specials) just dissapears completely.

 

Should I turn hardware acceleration totally off then?

 

-MMave