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(Sorry, I goofed. This belongs in the support forum.)

The music makes annoying semi-rythmic popping noises in the game. I played the music files outside the game, and they do not pop. I thought it was the fault of the Soundblaster Live card I was using, but even after I removed it and installed a Turtle Beach Santa Cruz, I get the same problem in EUII.

My system (with all latest drivers):

Windows XP Home
Athlon 1 GHz
1.12 GB RAM
Santa Cruz sound card
nVidia GeForce 3 Ti500
 
Originally posted by Armandeus
(Sorry, I goofed. This belongs in the support forum.)

The music makes annoying semi-rythmic popping noises in the game. I played the music files outside the game, and they do not pop. I thought it was the fault of the Soundblaster Live card I was using, but even after I removed it and installed a Turtle Beach Santa Cruz, I get the same problem in EUII.

My system (with all latest drivers):

Windows XP Home
Athlon 1 GHz
1.12 GB RAM
Santa Cruz sound card
nVidia GeForce 3 Ti500
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1.12 GB RAM???? geez... that's what I call "the more the better" :D

try to play the music using Winamp and disable the music with EU2 settings and lauch the game. it should work that way.
 
Mine sometimes (not always) makes a very loud buzzing-staticky noise, which starts when I get to the main screen from the start/load game interface. Only way to stop it is to either completely exit EU2 or to turn the game sounds completely off. Ideas?

Running the North American 1.05, on an XP P4-1600 with 256 ram... game has a few mods but nothing that should affect the sound files.
 
Originally posted by Sheridan
Mine sometimes (not always) makes a very loud buzzing-staticky noise, which starts when I get to the main screen from the start/load game interface. Only way to stop it is to either completely exit EU2 or to turn the game sounds completely off. Ideas?

Running the North American 1.05, on an XP P4-1600 with 256 ram... game has a few mods but nothing that should affect the sound files.
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if you have a sound blaster card, check their knowledge base, they used to have a very good article telling you how to manually uninstall their drivers. do so and reinstall the latest ones and it should work properly.

I had the problem early during the beta phase but never encountered it later. removed the drivers, put the new ones, and everything was ok :)
 
Hmmm... haven't done this yet, but I'd suspect I at least have newer drivers than when EUII was released - I just bought the comp (brand new) in March of this year. And it is a soundblaster card.

As far as checking their 'knowledge base', whatever the heck that is.... what is it?
 
Thanks for the WinAmp tip, but isn't anyone else having this problem? I've tried WinAmp before, and I wasn't really happy with it. Also, I'm not sure if running other apps in the background while playing the game is such a good idea.

Viper37, about the RAM: RAM is cheap. Max it out. It definitely helps to have as much as possible, especially when running WinXP. It also keeps Windows from thrashing your hard drive with a swap file. I will never again have less than 1GB RAM. Things run more comfortably with it.

There's a lot of Soundblaster advice here, but as I said, I changed over to a Turtle Beach card. I still have the same problem even after changing the sound card, so I think it is a problem with the game, not the drivers or the cards.

Any ideas? Paradox?
 
re: music
it could be the game, yes, but I can't be sure as it seems to be working for a lot of people. So, I suspect some driver issue here. Something common to both cards, or maybe something related to direct X.

Have you tried using DX Buster to remove Direct X? If not, try that and reinstall the latest direct X.


Winamp, isn't that bad in the background, especially if you have 1gb RAM.
 
Which CODEC?

I just thought of a possible cause for this problem - CODECs. Which CODEC does EU2 use to play MP3s?

Maybe there is a conflict or a problem of some sort. The CODEC would stay the same even after I changed the physical sound card.
 
Originally posted by ElectricBoots
I have the same problem... I tried reinstalling my drivers or playing with the sound performance slider in the Control Panels, it doesn't change anything. :(

With Winamp the MP3s are fine though...


EB
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What's your system configuration? (OS, sound card, drivers, etc.)
 
Let's try a couple things then...

I checked your sound card and don't see an updated driver for Win2000. Presumably this seems to be the latest version and may help.

Nvidia cards have serious issues with some of the older drivers. Are yours up to date? You should be running with a 40.xx driver or you'll definitely have problems. Go here to download the latest.

Given the above two possible issues, it may just be that you'll have to play the sound using Winamp in the background since you're having no problems with the sound there. You've got plenty of RAM so I doubt you'll notice any performance hit.

Please do let me know if one of the first two things works, though, so I can add it to the database I'm building.

Edit: could you also confirm with me that you're using DirectX 8.1
 
Just another thought if you're having trouble...I'm guessing that you've probably gone through at least a couple DirectX and driver updates so perhaps there's some problem lurking around that relates to that. You may be able to resolve the problem (if it still exists) by:

1. Download the DirectX 8.1 installer.

2. Use DirectX Buster to uninstall DirectX, and then reinstall it.

If that doesn't help...

3. Use Detonator Destroyer to completely remove your Nvidia drivers and then install the latest (see previous post).
 
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