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Crackling/Pausing ingame sounds

Posted: 02 Jan 2011, 16:17
by 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

Re: Crackling/Pausing ingame sounds

Posted: 02 Jan 2011, 17:03
by 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.

Re: Crackling/Pausing ingame sounds

Posted: 02 Jan 2011, 19:49
by Jonny5isalivetm
seems to happen less when firefox and sidebar is off I have noticed..

Re: Crackling/Pausing ingame sounds

Posted: 02 Jan 2011, 19:50
by aegis
max simultaneous sounds? sound card?

iirc win7 uses new sound driver model

Re: Crackling/Pausing ingame sounds

Posted: 02 Jan 2011, 21:34
by Jonny5isalivetm
I disabled unnecessary services and now the sound is golden :DD

Re: Crackling/Pausing ingame sounds

Posted: 02 Jan 2011, 22:03
by Masure
I experience the same issues, could you detail which services did you disable ?

Re: Crackling/Pausing ingame sounds

Posted: 03 Jan 2011, 02:21
by Jonny5isalivetm
I dont use homegroup, wireless, printer etc

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

Re: Crackling/Pausing ingame sounds

Posted: 03 Jan 2011, 16:17
by 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

Re: Crackling/Pausing ingame sounds

Posted: 04 Jan 2011, 22:28
by 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

Re: Crackling/Pausing ingame sounds

Posted: 06 Jan 2011, 01:45
by abma
added to the faq, thanks :)

Re: Crackling/Pausing ingame sounds

Posted: 07 Jan 2011, 13:36
by Jonny5isalivetm
Hi thanks :-)

Hopefully this saves some folk some trouble

Re: Crackling/Pausing ingame sounds

Posted: 12 Jan 2011, 00:38
by Jonny5isalivetm
S3 sleep standby mode also can cause the game to crackle