Oops - just to clarify; I had no engine sound IN***pit view w/3D sound on;
which is a documented Audigy issue in the readme. The rest, OTOH... ;-)
> > I have a Hercules Game Theatre XP sound card and everytime I start a
race,
> I
> > cannot hear my own engine sound in any view execpt***pit view. If I
go
> to
> > the options menu and check/uncheck the 3d Sound box, the sound will come
> > back. You have to do this once at the start of the race and it stays
> fixed.
> > It's a little annoying but at least I know how to fix it.
> > -Tim
> I'm using an Audigy card with Win98SE and had the same experience, but
> worse. It did the same in NR2002 if you had too many sounds playing, but
if
> you either cycled through the driving views or reduced the number of
sounds
> it would sort it out.
> The demo behaved similarly, but in the full game once I had checked 3D
> sound, even if went back and unchecked it before quitting the game, the
next
> time I started the game the card would still be trying to do 3D, even with
> the box unchecked. Not only that, but I was getting 3D echoes of all the
> sounds in Windows, like mouse clicks, etc. after quitting the game. And
if
> I mucked with it much in-game, it would invariably lock up my PC.
> Uninstalled, cleaned out the folders and reinstalled, and now seems OK.
Not
> messing with 3D sound any more!
> Odd; the only issue I've had trouble with in virtually every Papy release
> has been sound, even with different sound cards and PC's.
> SB