Or you can try going to "run" in the start menu type dxdiag when its loaded go to sound and turn sound acceleration to basic this increased my fps, also the sound was spot on with no stuttering, hope this helps. it made the game run better for me......and yes i have a nforce4 mobo (onboard soundcard Ac'97)
took this from my other post but i think its well worth trying because it worked on my brothers machine too which is a different setup to my machine
Thanks for the hint. I reduced it to "minimal", and it actually seems to be better now... but still not perfect!
I have the onboard soundcard AC'97, too!
You can also update your Realtek drivers here:Originally posted by WhoCaresWhoWins:
Or you can try going to "run" in the start menu type dxdiag when its loaded go to sound and turn sound acceleration to basic this increased my fps, also the sound was spot on with no stuttering, hope this helps. it made the game run better for me......and yes i have a nforce4 mobo (onboard soundcard Ac'97)
took this from my other post but i think its well worth trying because it worked on my brothers machine too which is a different setup to my machine
http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/
The dxdiag trick switching sound to basic worked. Doesn anyone know if you can make that switch stay? I have to run it everytime I reboot.
Running with onboard sound **** is not recommended..
1. it eats fps and in heavy games like vegas you dont want anything to eat away..
2. you will in most games have to lower the acceleration otherwise it will stutter or even freeze up some games..
Do yourself a favor and buy a cheap Audigy4 and that should do just fine and it can play on high surround about any game with uptodate drivers.<div class="ev_tpc_signature">
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Strange, for some reason mine is set to "Basic" by default. I'm also running the RealTek AC'97 onboard with the latest drivers.Originally posted by lambchop44:
The dxdiag trick switching sound to basic worked. Doesn anyone know if you can make that switch stay? I have to run it everytime I reboot.
The main problem that I have with the RealTek AC'97 is static in my audio when I play games...Just about any game. It's actually starting to really get to me. I've tried rolling back drivers, re-installing drivers, even reformatted (for other reasons) and it's still there. I'm completely stumped on this...
I plan on upgrading to an actual "sound CARD" when I can, but for now I would love to fix this problem...<div class="ev_tpc_signature">
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on board sound will all ways suck no matter what you play. i have the XFI music sound card which isn't to bad but there is some known problems with it and all XFI cards that are out. i have been to creative forums which have helped a lot and also i have found a few of the fix as well. which are there on there forum. but i would go with a sound card when ever possible. but turning back the acceleration make since . cause the on board is robbing from your cpu and that being turn down will help you out on games that use it.<div class="ev_tpc_signature">
Did you run the test after putting it to basic? for me after putting it to basic if i run the test it gets through a bunch of the sounds and then tell me that my card does not support hardware buffering and sounds can only play thorugh software buffers and doesnt complete the test, wouldnt this cause problems or even reduce performence? It goes through the test just fine on standard and full acceleration.(im running the ac'97 too, really need a new card though honstely it sounds pretty good)
I ran the test on every setting, and it ran fine yet told me "can only play thorugh software buffers" at the end..on each one.
On every test the notes state: "DirectSound test results: All tests were successful."<div class="ev_tpc_signature">
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Hard Drive: 250 GB SATA-II 3.0Gb/s 8MB Cache 7200RPM
Hard Drive: 160 GB External WD Black Book (storage)
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Operating System: Windows XP Professional (5.1, Build 2600) Service Pack 2
thats not the entire test then, when i run the test on standard and full it goes through about twice as many sounds as it does when it gives the buffer error. that error message cuts the test off about half way. But i guess the second half could be the same sounds buffered, but software emulation is always slower then hardware buffering so wouldnt i actually be loosing performence by turning off the hardware buffers and going to basic?
Just really need to go get a actual sound card lol, the ac'97 ive got on here (with the 655 chip) actually sounds really good quality wise but its got crappy eax and all that, and it saps cpu cycles, nvidia actually have a sound driver thats made for the ac'97 that apperenty has much better performence and a great eax support but the sound quality is poor so i havent bothered trying it. So for hardocre gamers that dont have the option of getting a new card you might wanna check out the nVidia Sound Driver for your AC'97, if you do let me know what you think, i dont feel like going through the hassle of testing it myself lol
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