GTA SA sound problem

Stephen

When I originally played GTA San Andreas, I played it on my old Athlon XP machine and it worked fine. I reinstalled it the other day on my current Athlon 64 machine and am having a problem with audio in the game.

Sound works fine until you save the game. When you return to the game you get this deafening noise which sounds like bicycles in the game, only way too loud. It lasts for about a minute after saving the game and is really getting on my tits.

System as follows:
Athlon 64 3200
2gb ram
nvigia 6800GT pci-e
Audigy 2 ZS soundcard
2.1 speakers, set up as such in windows

No other games show any problems with sound. I have installed the 1.01 patch for san andreas but it made no difference.

Anyone got any ideas?

philologos

I had this before too its something to do with hardware sound accelleration in the direct x config. Tweak around with it a bit and then make sure it suits your system. Although GTA:SA does have EAX support so Creative cards should work well. Good luck and report what setting you used to fix it

dxdiag in the start menu

suppafly

Yeah i had this problem too. After saving u'd get a sound skipping and repeating of what ever was close too u. Like if u parked yur bike outside u'd get that sound. It would also happen when i looked at the map. Was really annoying but was playing today and it just seemed to go for some reason.

edit: i've just noticed that i have the same soundcard as u to

Stephen

I get it when looking at the map too. Very annoying. I turned down acceleration in dxdiag which reduces this a bit but it still happens a lot

Dear Creative, WTF?

suppafly

When u get the sound after looking at the map i found that if u switch cars the sound went away most of time. After saving yur game i found that sound was just in one area, like grove street. I'd drive to the end of the road near the train tracks and then come back and the sound was gone. So those were just a few of ways i would try to get around the problem. That or just have the game muted for a little while until the distortion stopped.

Also one more thing i remember, the sound problems seemed to be getting progressively worse. At the start it was just after saving i'd get the sound. The after looking at maps, and then just randomly until all of that just when away.

Zapho

I found that this sorted it.
Go to sound and audio devices in control panel, then hit advanced followed by clicking on the performance tab. Then change the hardware acceleration slider down on notch so its on standard.

Hope this helps

Stephen

I can't believe I didn't try this earlier... I downloaded the latest Audigy 2 zs drivers from Creative (dated January 2006) and installed 'em. They appear to have fixed the sound problem, with the hardware acceleration slider set to max

philologos

fair play, I had the problem with a Santa Cruz Turtle Beach card before on an old PC