Music disappearing, why?

[Castellon]

You mean in a music player, that is an alternative.

 

[frogbeastegg]

Drivers downloaded and installed, thanks for finding them. Well on the plus side I played 2 hours of CK today and the music kept going all the time without problem, on the minus I experienced my first crash with 1.3b; previously the game had been as stable as a very stable thing.

If the music cuts out again in the future I'll be back, but otherwise I think we can assume the problem is fixed :holds lucky rabbit's foot:

 

[Judge]

You mean in a music player, that is an alternative.

Actually it might be better than before

 

[Castellon]

Well as long as everyone is happy.

 

[frogbeastegg]

Sorry to say I played for a quick 20 minutes this evening and the music vanished again, the sound effects and everything else kept going same as usual. I thought I'd cracked it, 2 hours is the longest I've ever played

 

[Castellon]

Okay try turning down the sound acceleration. You can do that from the Dxdiag sound tab screen.

 

[frogbeastegg]

Tried it; anything less than the third notch from the left causes sound effects glitches, however the music seems fine. I didn't stick around long enough to find if the music kept playing or not, those glitches were ear hurting.

 

[Castellon]

So there is a chance the 3rd notch may work?

 

[frogbeastegg]

Sorry, I should have said - third notch is what I leave it on all the time, forth notch causes performance problems in some games. I'm trying to do too many things at the same time :wacko:

 

[Castellon]

So you are having trouble with other games as well?

 

[frogbeastegg]

Medieval total war, if I have the sound accel to full then the battles are very jerky; it is a known and common issue with the game. It has never been isolated to something as simple as drivers etc, it appears to be a part of the battle engine. Aside from CK's vanishing music and thief 3's hatred of newer radeon drivers everything is running fine.

 

[Castellon]

Try the forth Notch with CK.

 

[frogbeastegg]

Sorry for the delay, I haven't had time to play for ages. I tried the forth notch today, the game crashed once after 15 minutes. On my second go the music disappeared after about 20 minutes; sound effects etc were all fine as usual.

 

[Castellon]

Who is the publisher of your version, thier logo will be on the cd?

Also go to Start-Run- then type Msconfig.
Tell me what is listed under the start up tab.

 

[frogbeastegg]

I got mine direct from Paradox so it is their logo on both disc and box.

Enabled at start up:
atiptaxx
GSICON
dslagent
remhelp
hpztsb05
navapw32
realsched
zlclient
CTHELPER
UpdReg
ADGJDet
Microsoft Office
PowerReg scheduler V3

There are more things I have disabled:
qttask
msmsgs
NeroCheck
qttask (listed twice, disabled twice)
BT Broadband Help
Getright Tray Icon
WinZip quick pick

 

[Bismarck]

Just a side note:

You can disable the PowerReg Scheduler V3, I know that...

That is the program that gets installed and pops up after you buy a game or program and asks if you want to register it or wait two weeks for a reminder.

Castellon,

I think you should add this to the pages people should check when they are looking to fix problems:

http://www.windowsstartup.com/wso/browse.php?l=0

I recommend you look up all the things that load up at startup and reference them against the list so you know what they are.

M

 

[Bismarck]

I got mine direct from Paradox so it is their logo on both disc and box.

Enabled at start up:

CTHELPER

CTHELPER is a background task that is a plug-in manager for Creative drivers. The theory is that 3rd party manufacturers can use the CTHELPER plug-in interface to produce drivers, add-on features, and fixes that will integrate with a tighter fit with Creative抯 sound drivers and utilities. Given its purpose CTHELPER would normally be classified as a "leave alone" background task.Unfortunately there are often problems with CTHELPER, most notably that it can use 100% of CPU time so it's best left disabled

Perhaps you should try disabling it for a test to see if the music disappears while playing...

Judge, do you also have this file loading at startup?

M

 

[Castellon]

Actually what I want you to do is disable ALL of them.
You should not need any of them.
When I mentioned shutting down all background programs these are what I was talking about.
Normally I have two things I allow to start up automatically, that is the MSOffice and a Quick loader.

 

[frogbeastegg]

If you don't mind I will keep some of those processes running - otherwise I lose my antivirus and firewall; since I have a broadband connection I usually leave the connection open.

Anyway as a brief experiment I yanked the Internet connection out of the wall and disabled everything; it didn't help CK at all. I have put things back how they were now.

This is one strange problem; I'm beginning to think it will be easier to keep exiting and restarting CK each time the music breaks. I did try using media player to supply the music back when CK was on version 1.1, it worked but badly; every time the track changed CK started to flicker and media player showed through.

 

[Castellon]

You could try WinAmp.

Virus protection in the background is one of the leading causes of problems.

The choice is yours.