Sound crackle - may have figured it out | Forums

[flyinj]

Well, my sound was popping and crackling in this game. I tried everything to get it to stop, but to no avail.

Then I realized something nly two other games on my system have popping and crackling sound when I play them, and I was never able to resolve it:

Soldiers : Heroes of WWII

and

Scrapland

Now, SH3 pops and crackles... What do all these games have in common?

I hate to add to the choir, but Starforce.

Chalk up another victory for throwing mal-ware copy protection devices into the system/device level of my computer.

[flyinj]

Well, my sound was popping and crackling in this game. I tried everything to get it to stop, but to no avail.

Then I realized something nly two other games on my system have popping and crackling sound when I play them, and I was never able to resolve it:

Soldiers : Heroes of WWII

and

Scrapland

Now, SH3 pops and crackles... What do all these games have in common?

I hate to add to the choir, but Starforce.

Chalk up another victory for throwing mal-ware copy protection devices into the system/device level of my computer.

[Messervy]

Sorry to dissapoint you.
I have the same problem with CoDUO - no Starforce there!

[JudoHedgehog]

I have it with America's Army. Definately no copy protection there.

[altstiff]

I always found that turning the in game and windows default volume to 75% (and turn up your speaker knob) fixed alot of crackle problems for me.

[dse1010]

Can anything be blamed on Starforce?

[ZG77_Lignite]

Anything you want. Dog crapped on the floor? Starforce! Wife sitting in the bar with 2 sailors? Starforce! Computer turns off when the power goes out? Starforce!

[Tusler]

I have found if I go to the DirectX (dxdiag) and move the slider for Sound acceleration down a couple of notches it cures my sound problems. I am running the latest drivers and latest directx but even Lomac has the sound problem and this made it better.
Hope it helps

[DrReaper]

Look for a thread in here called Crackling/Popping while playing. It has a fix for soundblasters

[Sheepdip82]

I have an Audigy 2, and I used to get crackling in several games and couldnt figure out why, in the end buried deep in a forum somewhere, someone suggested switching my PC type to
Advanced Configuration and power interface (ACPI) PC (under device manager - right click on computer, properties, update driver, select from list, select ACPI, reboot).

Since then I have had no problems with my soundcard. If your stumped for idea's it could be worth a try