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azcreep posted 03-31-99 04:20 PM ET
OK... I know the sound thing has been beat to death, but things are happening a little differently for me.
Hardware:
amdk2-233
tx MB, 64mb
Siig sound card (ensoniq chipset) drivers detected as creative 64pci

When I install the game and play, the sound will play twice. Is this the echo? When I enable 8bitmoviesound=1 in the .ini, everything works great.
When I install the 3.0 patch, no sound. Remove the 8bitmoviesound=1, I have good sound, until a "voice" comes on (new discovery, etc) then I get an illegal op in terran.exe in module sound.dll. Rename the dll, no sound.
Set d3snd (?) to 0 and I get desent sound, but no voices. Not sure what happens when I set both settings to 0 (eax or whatever).
I guess what I'm getting at is should I just play the non-patch ver and have good sound, or V3.0, and no voices (and who knows what else)? Or is there a fix for the issues?
Maybe I should ditch my $20 sound card. Hehheh...
Any recomendations?
Jeffrey Morris FIRAXIS posted 04-01-99 10:56 AM ET
Set both EAX and DS3D to 0. Let me know if with those settings you still don't have any voices.
jkm
firaxis games
azcreep posted 04-01-99 08:20 PM ET
First, Id like to say thanks for replying so quickly.
Anyway, I had a chance to play with the sound a bit and this is what I found.
When I disabled the two settings (eax and ds3d =0) I did get voices. The sounds are a little scratchy here and there but the game is playable. What orig threw me off was when I got the illegal op in terran.exe, and started the game right back up, I guess the sound.dll did not get reset or something. The game would act just like i renamed the sound.dll to sound.dl_.
Long story short, everything seems to be ok now. I'll see if I have any problems when I play for a stretch of time.
Thanks again.
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Author	Topic: Sound Problems
azcreep	posted 03-31-99 04:20 PM ET OK... I know the sound thing has been beat to death, but things are happening a little differently for me. Hardware: amdk2-233 tx MB, 64mb Siig sound card (ensoniq chipset) drivers detected as creative 64pci When I install the game and play, the sound will play twice. Is this the echo? When I enable 8bitmoviesound=1 in the .ini, everything works great. When I install the 3.0 patch, no sound. Remove the 8bitmoviesound=1, I have good sound, until a "voice" comes on (new discovery, etc) then I get an illegal op in terran.exe in module sound.dll. Rename the dll, no sound. Set d3snd (?) to 0 and I get desent sound, but no voices. Not sure what happens when I set both settings to 0 (eax or whatever). I guess what I'm getting at is should I just play the non-patch ver and have good sound, or V3.0, and no voices (and who knows what else)? Or is there a fix for the issues? Maybe I should ditch my $20 sound card. Hehheh... Any recomendations?
Jeffrey Morris FIRAXIS	posted 04-01-99 10:56 AM ET Set both EAX and DS3D to 0. Let me know if with those settings you still don't have any voices. jkm firaxis games
azcreep	posted 04-01-99 08:20 PM ET First, Id like to say thanks for replying so quickly. Anyway, I had a chance to play with the sound a bit and this is what I found. When I disabled the two settings (eax and ds3d =0) I did get voices. The sounds are a little scratchy here and there but the game is playable. What orig threw me off was when I got the illegal op in terran.exe, and started the game right back up, I guess the sound.dll did not get reset or something. The game would act just like i renamed the sound.dll to sound.dl_. Long story short, everything seems to be ok now. I'll see if I have any problems when I play for a stretch of time. Thanks again.