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!DARTH VADER SOUND CARD!

  • 14-06-2001 6:53pm
    #1
    Spunog UIE
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,651 ✭✭✭


    Hey,
    i have a ickle problem with my soundcard.
    When it plays movies or cut scenes in games the sound(usually just the voices) becomes very slow and darth vader like.
    I formated my hard-drive yesterday and reinstalled everything (due to other reasons) and it was working fine. Then installed Total Annilation and it was gone crappy again. I don't think TA was the cause tho, as there were times when it was working that it worked along side that as well.

    Any ideas, i'm really lost. I don't have any cd's for the drivers that can be installed for the card just cabs? i have downloaded. and windows doesn't think anything is wrong with it so i don't think they get reinstalled.
    I dunno...
    Any help appreciated cos its a right ****er!

    Cheers,
    Gideon.

    [This message has been edited by Gideon2000 (edited 14-06-2001).]


Comments

  • #2
    SickBoy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,533 ✭✭✭SickBoy


    What sound card do you have?


  • #3
    Spunog UIE
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,651 ✭✭✭Spunog UIE


    its more of a chip embedded in the motherboard. but eh, its Yahama Leagacy something or other. Sound blaster of some sort.


  • #4
    Bard
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,309 ✭✭✭✭Bard


    Your sound card has moved over to the dark side... use the force Gideon... uuuuuuuse the foooooooorce...


    (Sorry - couldn't resist)
    Bard
    Does exactly what it says on the tin.


  • #5
    BNC
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 425 ✭✭BNC


    "I sense something, something I've not felt since..."

    What make is the motherboard? What memory you got in there? U got the latest drivers?


  • #6
    Spunog UIE
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,651 ✭✭✭Spunog UIE


    I couldn't tell you the make of the mother board, it was all part of a 300mhz packardbell piece of crap soooooooooooooo... i dunno, its about 2year old now. 48mb ram. Got latest drivers they didn't make any difference. I can still listen to allmy mp3s and the like its just movie clips and some cut scenes usually the ones with real voices.
    frown.gif


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  • #7
    AI_inferno
    Closed Accounts Posts: 136 ✭✭AI_inferno


    Not much help realyl but it sounds like your machine may be being tasked too much by the fullscreen video and sound at the same time - I had a built in sound card on a motherboard and it always overflowed causing games to crash and hang my system - you're better off disabling it and getting a cheapy sound blaster for £20.


  • #8
    BNC
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 425 ✭✭BNC


    What version of DirectX?
    I had a problem a while ago where the sound was out of synch with the video I played around with sound hardware exceleration in the DirectX control panel and this sorted it out.



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