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Razored · Jul 08, 2005, 12:40 AM // 00:40

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I'm also getting some sound issues playing, sometimes it starts a feedback-like noise which most of the time gets solved by turning the graphics settings all the way down. Usually the sound just turns off, which actually took me almost an hour to notice.

I'm running 98SE on a Celeron 2.4 with 1 gig. The weak spots are a below-spec graphics card, a Radeon 7000, and the onboard C-Media sound card. Both have the most recent drivers, but I'm hoping that upgrading the sound card will help the problem. Has anyone had any luck getting a better sound card and having better success?

toastgodsupreme · Jul 08, 2005, 12:43 AM // 00:43

A few things...

Does it happen if you turn the monitor off? Like, does it stop?

Do you have any speakers or wires near your monitor?

Have you muted the "Line In" in volume control? (you should unless you regularly use it)

Answer/try that stuff, get back to us here.

Razored · Jul 09, 2005, 12:23 AM // 00:23

At the moment, I've switched to a 9800, and I'm not able to replicate the popping feedback anymore. The wires run off to the corners of the room, nowhere near the monitor anyway. On the 7000, when the feedback came on, it persisted even with the monitor off, or tabbed out of the game. On the 9800, with graphics set to a higher level the game still seems to want to cut the sound out after an hour or so, and after about four hours the game got noticably choppy, something the 7000 did after about an hour and a half... I don't normally use the 9800, because it has severe problems with some older games.