Crackling/Pausing ingame sounds

[Jonny5isalivetm]

Seems to only happen for me when using vista/seven.

Does your sound work okay ? ie smooth, what gfx card do you guys girls have I just got a 5870..

I hope there is a fix for this if there is it needs to get put into the general FAQ because it is super annoying after a while.

Jonny

[Beherith]

I had the same bug too, out of nowhere. Setting cpu affinity to 1 core caused it, but it has somehow resolved itself since.

[Jonny5isalivetm]

seems to happen less when firefox and sidebar is off I have noticed..

[aegis]

max simultaneous sounds? sound card?

iirc win7 uses new sound driver model

[Jonny5isalivetm]

I disabled unnecessary services and now the sound is golden :DD

[Masure]

I experience the same issues, could you detail which services did you disable ?

[Jonny5isalivetm]

I dont use homegroup, wireless, printer etc

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/jonny.watk ... an2011.jpg

[Jonny5isalivetm]

okay correction :D

nothing to do with services tho having less running generally leads to a better performing PC.

The Fix.....

SystemSoundsService Task must be runnning in Task Scheduler otherwise you get the dreaded crackle.

If it still doesnt work try upgrading sound drivers as aegis has said, also check openAL and DirectX drivers are installed and upto date.

http://connect.creativelabs.com/openal/ ... Items.aspx

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/d ... laylang=en

let us know if this helped you out :D

Jonny

[Jonny5isalivetm]

I have a ATI video card and it can transmit sound via its HDMI connection.

Installing the latest driver makes the dreaded crackle go away

Jonny

[abma]

added to the faq, thanks :)

[Jonny5isalivetm]

Hi thanks

Hopefully this saves some folk some trouble

[Jonny5isalivetm]

S3 sleep standby mode also can cause the game to crackle