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[peteuplink]

I have a problem with the sound on this. It starts off fine and then just goes all to pieces and sounds like static. I've had this problem before with LOMAC which is alos a UBi-Soft product.

I've got a Sounblaster Live 1024 player soundcard, win XP, 1024MB RAM, Athlon 2400+XP processor and a 128MB ATI Radeon 9600XT.

The games speed seems fine, no graphics issues of any kind that I've seen. It's just the sound gets messed up after a few minutes play

Any ideas how to fix this?

[peteuplink]

I have a problem with the sound on this. It starts off fine and then just goes all to pieces and sounds like static. I've had this problem before with LOMAC which is alos a UBi-Soft product.

I've got a Sounblaster Live 1024 player soundcard, win XP, 1024MB RAM, Athlon 2400+XP processor and a 128MB ATI Radeon 9600XT.

The games speed seems fine, no graphics issues of any kind that I've seen. It's just the sound gets messed up after a few minutes play

Any ideas how to fix this?

[TASKFORCE1x1]

Try a lower sound quality setting. That possibly works. anyways you may need the latest driver for your soundcard. Sometimes you need to completely unload all your sound drivers before applying a new sound driver from the manufacturer. Also I hate to say it but sometimes spyware on an unprotected system could make sound perform poorly as well as video. Those kind of programs drain resources and slow pc's down no matter how powerful they are. This was a big problem for windows till after Microsoft put out the SP2 patch XP update.

[peteuplink]

I figured it out. It is EXACTLY the same problem as what used to happen for lots of people with Lock-On Modern Air Combat. Hardware Acceleration is causing some weirdness with the sound and it results in something that sounds like static.

Turing Hardware Accleration off in DXDIAG fixes the problem. However, it would have been nice to have the option in the game to turn on and off H/W Accel'.

Like I said, lots of people run into this when Lock-On was first released (that didn't have an option for turning off H/W Accel, but I think it was patched later to do so) and I heard a rumour that the engine used for SH3 is something very similar to the one for Lock-On... Albeit in in the ocean rather than in the air.