Hi all,
Haha, it's fixed. Many thanks to you all. Reducing the hardware acceleration
in DXDIAG to basic acceleration has cured the distorted sound. There doesn't
seem to be any reduction in sound quality or frame rate in GPL either which
is welcome. Also, luckily, you don't have to reboot the PC after adjusting
the hardware acceleration, so I can just reduce it when I want to run GPL
and then when I've finished just put it back up to full acceleration again
without any reboots required.
I am so, so glad that I have found a cure for this problem. I hope it works
the same for everyone else as well.
Many thanks once again
Russell
> OK, I had this exact problem in XP Home, and like you had no problems
> in Win98 SE...
> NONE of the following tips worked for me but did for some others:
> Reduce hardware accelleration in steps to see what gives best results.
> Try different drivers.
> Reduce volume (though I suspect this is for a different type of
> distortion)
> Buy a Fortissimo III (introduced stuttering even with latest drivers).
> This, however, worked perfectly:
> Use on-board sound (if available)
> Buy an Audigy 2!
> On board sound worked fine for GPL, but N2K2 didn't like it, and by
> that point I'd spent *days* jumping through hoops so thought "F*ck it!
> - Spend the cash"
> Sorry...
> Regards,
> Mark
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> > > Hi all,
> > > I am running GPL on Windows 2000 Profesional and am having some
problems
> > > with distorted sound. When the engine is at low revs the sound doesn't
> > sound
> > > too bad, but as you accelerate the sound gets more and more distorted.
> > This
> > > is not all the time. Sometimes it starts off ok, but then I'll crash,
and
> > > the sound is distorted after the crash. Sometimes it starts off
distorted
> > > and then I'll crash and the sound is fine after the crash. Sometimes
the
> > > sound never seems to correct itself.
> > > This was never a problem on Windows 98SE. I've done a search on Google
> > > groups and it appears other people have had the same issue with
Windows
> > NT.
> > > However I couldn't seem to find a solution to the problem (if one
exists).
> > > My sound card is a SounBlaster Live 1024 running the latest Creative
> > > drivers.
> > Exact the same thing here, but with Soundblaster Live and Windows XP Pro
> > SP1, latest drivers from Creative, Motherboard with AMD760-chipset.
> > Never had those problems in Windows 98 SE and Windows Me.
> > > Any help would be grately appreciated
> > Yes!
> > > Regards
> > > Russell
> > Stephan
