BIG problem with sound in games!
January 27th, 2020
It happens the worst, and most noticably in STALKER, and especially when Im close to, or looking at a wall or other surface. At first I thought the noise was part of the tense atmospheric horror sounds (which it does sound like), but it plays constantly, no gaps, no breaks. Its even louder when I go to the main menu, and choosing dfferent sub-menus causes the sound to change in pitch, density, and shape.
You can also hear the noise in Assasins Creed, but its much quieter. Fallout 3 also makes the noise start playing too.
I dont understand what might be causing this. I know crossing audio cable with power cables can increase the 50Hz mains hum, but its definitely not mains hum.
Any help is greatly appreciated, thanks in advance to those who can spare a couple minutes to look this through.
peace
If you download the games from here, then be sure that you are not downloading RIP editions, as they usually got ripped the sounds and it will act like you explained.
im thinking the card might be too powerful for the motherboard, what kind of card and motherboard do you have?
turn down your sound “hardware accelerator”
i will look into this some more
THIS also happened to me, Any audio adjustment didnt help in main menu. It was very loud an very annoying. I have winxp, need to reduce the “HARDWARE ACCELERATOR”
1-START
2-SETTINGS
3-CONTROL PANEL
4-SOUND AND AUDIO DEVICES
5-SPEAKER SETTINGS “ADVANCED”
6-PREFORMANCE TAB
7-
Thanks i’ll give the last suggestion a try! My sound card is pretty old (SB Audigy) and my Mobo is pretty modern (PCI-E/Dual Core 3.5GHz) so it probably isn’t a compatibility issue (used to work fine). The games I’ve mentioned are all scene releases (no RIPS), but Creed is a repack.
I’ll post back the result in a little while.
peace
Edit: If I turn off H/W acc, does that mean I cant use EAX 2.0 for 3D audio?
Thanks man, but it didn’t work, it actually made the noise louder than it was with full acceleration! I have an inbuilt Realtek HD audio card on my motherboard. I’ll try that tomorrow, but its strange that the sound used to work fine until I bought a new HD4870 and a more powerful PSU.
ahhhh that maybe the problem
Realtek HD audio card on my motherboard.
a few games require a sound card, yours is not.
find the latest drivers for your audio, that may fix it
EDIT: me confused, you have SB Audigy and you say realtek audio? Then a card on your motherboard?
What exactly do you have for the audio?
i never saw a card “on” your motherboard. Maybe part of the motherboard.
Thaat SB audio could be 6 years old.
ahhhh that maybe the problem
Realtek HD audio card on my motherboard.
a few games require a sound card, yours is not.
find the latest drivers for your audio, that may fix it
EDIT: me confused, you have SB Audigy and you say realtek audio? Then a card on your motherboard?
What exactly do you have for the audio?
i never saw a card "on" your motherboard. Maybe part of the motherboard.
Thaat SB audio could be 6 years old.
Sorry lol! I got a bit jumbled up in my impatience haha.
Basically, I have a normal 3rd party sound card (SB audigy/Live drive II/EAX 1.0/ EAX 2.0), plus an internal sound processor built into my mobo. My sound card IS old, but not so old that it should cause these problems. It used to work perfectly, with full hardware audio in all games that used EAX, like GTA:SA, all Unreal Tournament games, Condemned, Bioshock ETC.
It probably is about 6 years old though, but its never done this in all the time I’ve had it.
Plus, strangely enough, when Im playing Resident Evil 5, the sound is perfect, no digital mess anywhere, but an older game like stalker, or fallout 3 (not so old lol) gives me all these problems!
thanks for your continued support mate!