Sound Question

[Castellon]

Support questions in the support forum please.
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[Castellon]

Opps, I moved it then did not help you.

What you need to do is reduce the sound acceleration.

 

[Castellon]

Here is an explanation of the problem.
jpd sums it up nicely so I will just quote him.

Originally posted by jpd
Let me take a wild guess here. You are running a Windows 9x OS platform? If so, then what you have is an incompatibility between the Audigy VxD based drivers, DirectX and a paradox game. (the same problem is also present in Hearts of Iron)

Assuming the above (otherwise, ignore what I say below, as it will most likely not apply to your problem):

The problem doesn't exist when you use the WDM based drivers (which I now have installed for my Audigy II), which Creative added with the introduction of the Audigy II, but which were not suplied with the original Audigy.

Since Creative has more or less abandoned the VxD line of drivers (Windows 9x is a dying line of OS'es), and Paradox doesn't (to date) alter it's sound generation code in the games, you are stuck with the problem.

As Castellon suggested, you may get lucky with turning down your sound accelleration, but that's not a convenient solution, to say the least. Basically, you are then giving up that what makes an Audigy an Audigy, and you have to remember to put it back up again if you want to play any other games.

Secondly, you may consider upgrading to Win2K. For this platform, only WDM drivers can be used, so installing the Audigy drivers under Win2K will automatically give you the working ones.

Ideally, Paradox would correct the flaws in the way they generate sound effects and make it 100% DirectX compliant, but I don't see that happen any time soon (as they probably don't even know what precisely IS incompatible in this particular combination)

Jan Peter

 

[Castellon]

What you need to do is, change drivers to the WMD ones, and/or reduce sound acceleration.