Curse

Shiro Katagari · Sep 13, 2008, 06:35 PM // 18:35

Like a lot of people, I went on over to FA for the double points weekend. I found, though, that entering through the teleportals (as Kurzick) caused my sounds to either glitch (all sounds replaced by a stuttering sound) or fail completely. It's happened four times this weekend, twice it ultimately caused a crash and twice I was able to finish the battle and get back to the FA staging point and shut the game down (can't abandon the fight, right?

).

Drivers for the X-Fi Extreme Audio are up to date. Never had any problems until this weekend.

Anyone else have similiar difficulties? Or a solution?

Cheers.

Better to burn out · Sep 13, 2008, 07:23 PM // 19:23

i turn my gw sound off and listen to good music.. so i couldnt say if this has ever happened to me.

Brianna · Sep 13, 2008, 07:38 PM // 19:38

I am somehow suspecting that when A-Net updated that FMOD Sound Library in their previous update, it messed up sound for certain people. I cannot prove this but I have heard little birds telling me that their sounds are messed up, so I only suspect.

I have recommended to some people that they delete their .dat file and re-download all the files, but it didn't help. I suggested that because I thought their .dat could have become corrupted and a new one would have fixed it. I'd say you can try it on your own risk though if you want.

Maybe try some target line switches, just right click the GW Icon and at the end of the target line put a space and add the switch, such as ''-image'' without quotes.

Maybe these? Worth a shot.

* -dsound

Forces the use of old DirectSound software mixer. Good for users whose computers are not compatible with the newer version. It's worth a shot.

* -sndwinmm

Attempts to use the Windows Multimedia audio driver in software mode.

I'm not really good with sound issues, perhaps try rolling back the drivers or even double rolling back if you can, you never know.

What's the rest of your system's specs btw? OS? Other hardware?

Shiro Katagari · Sep 13, 2008, 07:45 PM // 19:45

Specs are:
Windows XP sp2
Dual core E6700
3gig ram
8800GTS 640meg graphics
Creative X-Fi Extreme Audio sound

All drivers are up to date.

I'll have a play around with the sound-switches (although I don't fancy the idea of doing an -image! :P ). I suppose it is perhaps more than a little coincidental that this is happening after there's been an update to an aspect of the in-game sounds...

Cheers.

DutchGun · Sep 13, 2008, 11:44 PM // 23:44

It doesn't really sound like something that would be caused by fragmentation. I'd try various sound options before resorting to a re-image.

Shiro, do you have 3D hardware acceleration turned on in the sound options? With an X-Fi, this should be an option for you. As far as I understand, FMOD is only used if this is NOT turned on (software mixing) - otherwise it just uses DirectSound.

I'd try switching between these two modes, as well as trying out some of the command-line option to see if one of those works for you.