Dodgy Sound..

[griddyox]

Firstly I just want to say hi to everyone, I've only been playing lfs for a couple of days but i'm proper hooked, it's awesome :trampolin.

It's a bit tricky with the mouse but i'm ordering a dfp soon which I cant wait to get.

Only problem I have is with my sound :(

When theirs more than a few cars close by, the sound completely breaks up and even after I re-initialise the sound it doesnt come back :(

Does anyone have any ideas?
Could it be anything to do with the format the sounds are in (ogg)?

Anyway, many thanx in advance :D

[Tweaker]

The sounds are generated in the game, no files or samples are used.

I used to get this issue on a slower system... or one that at least had lower-spec hardware.

What are your system specs?

-Sound Card
-Graphics Card & Memory
-CPU & speed
-Memory

Those are important to know. I found that this mostly happens when either the graphics card or sound card is strugling and causing other hardware to 'suffer' from its drainage of power so to speak. I had an onboard soundcard which was really crap, it would lower my FPS and have terrible sound. Bought a new card, and worked fine thereafter.

[marsden1002]

I had this problem as well, sounded like the sounds were distorting. My system specs aint slow, but it sorted its self out and i aint got a clue how



cheers,

[griddyox]

Here are my specs:

CPU:- Athlon XP 2200 OC@XP2600
Soundcard:- Audiophile USB or Onboard ac97 sound
1gb Memory
Dual monitors Geforce mx4 64mb (agp), Geforce fx5200 64mb (pci)

I have searched all over the net and still cant find anything :(


I normally use the audiphile usb ( as I also use pro-audio software )
however, to see if I could resolve the problem I removed the audiophile, and installed the drivers for the ac97 onboard sound.

For a short while I didnt have any probs but it's just gone back to bein dodgy again :(

[Tweaker]

Great system, but two things I noticed...

USB soundcards don't give the greatest of performance.... same with the onboard ac97 soundcard. Would be worth it to invest in a midrange Soundblaster... but that is up to you or if you system can fit one.

But the biggest thing I see is that you overclocked your system. Try putting it back to normal for a test and run LFS a few times to see if it happens still. Other than that, I don't know what else to say :shrug:

[marsden1002]

Ah, Mine are as follows,


Athlon 64 3000+
ATI Radeon 9250 SE 256MB
1024MB Ram
Onborad sound - Asrock a8x (something like that)

[griddyox]

I think I have an old soundblaster knockin around, I'll give that a go then I'll run my cpu at it's normal mhz.

See how that goes then :)