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lordbane18 posted 03-31-99 05:04 PM ET
I have an ESS1869 sound card, the latest drivers, directx 6.1, and the 3.0 patch for SMAC. When I play the voice overs and some sound effects will repeat the last part of the sound till it finds a new sound to repeate. any ideas how to fix this?
Jeffrey Morris FIRAXIS posted 04-01-99 11:00 AM ET
What's your processor and amount of RAM? Also, run the DXDiag.exe tests for directsound and see what happens.
jkm
firaxis games
Tarquelne posted 04-01-99 02:12 PM ET
I have a similar problem on one of the computers here - there's an "echo" effect with sound, music, and voices.
The sound card is an old SB-16 SCSI-II. 64 megs RAM, K6-200 CPU, not overclocked.
(I _haven't_ tried updating the drivers, or reinstalling Direct X. (It's not my computer, and I thought I'd ask here before doing that stuff, to see if there's something else to try first.)
lordbane18 posted 04-01-99 03:37 PM ET
I have a K6-233 64 megs of ram. I tried the dx diagnostics already, didn't help.
axe posted 04-01-99 03:41 PM ET
It may not of helped, but did it say your SC was DX compliant? I think that's what he was getting at..
lordbane18 posted 04-01-99 03:54 PM ET
it is, i already checked that
Philip Bowman posted 04-08-99 03:51 AM ET
I have a similar problem running SMAC on an IBM Thinkpad 300Mhz under NT 4.0 (SP 4). The sound is fine when the opening movie sequence plays.However in the game I get an echo on all speech but no problem with sound effects. DirectX compliance checks out.
Any help much appreciated!!
ForCripeSake posted 04-09-99 02:15 PM ET
I have the "echo" sound as well, I tested my sound card and it said It cant do Hardware buffering, only software. I dont know if thats an issue with the sound problem or not. If so, anyway I could fix it?
win posted 04-10-99 10:46 PM ET
Im having the same echoing sound problem. Im running Winnt 4.0 DUAL PII 400 w/ SB Live
win
LocustOfChiron posted 04-10-99 11:23 PM ET
I was having the same problem a couple days ago. I fixed it by reinstalling DirectX 6.0 (not 6.1, I had that previously) and using the new sound drivers that came with 6.0.
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Author	Topic: Repeating sounds
lordbane18	posted 03-31-99 05:04 PM ET I have an ESS1869 sound card, the latest drivers, directx 6.1, and the 3.0 patch for SMAC. When I play the voice overs and some sound effects will repeat the last part of the sound till it finds a new sound to repeate. any ideas how to fix this?
Jeffrey Morris FIRAXIS	posted 04-01-99 11:00 AM ET What's your processor and amount of RAM? Also, run the DXDiag.exe tests for directsound and see what happens. jkm firaxis games
Tarquelne	posted 04-01-99 02:12 PM ET I have a similar problem on one of the computers here - there's an "echo" effect with sound, music, and voices. The sound card is an old SB-16 SCSI-II. 64 megs RAM, K6-200 CPU, not overclocked. (I _haven't_ tried updating the drivers, or reinstalling Direct X. (It's not my computer, and I thought I'd ask here before doing that stuff, to see if there's something else to try first.)
lordbane18	posted 04-01-99 03:37 PM ET I have a K6-233 64 megs of ram. I tried the dx diagnostics already, didn't help.
axe	posted 04-01-99 03:41 PM ET It may not of helped, but did it say your SC was DX compliant? I think that's what he was getting at..
lordbane18	posted 04-01-99 03:54 PM ET it is, i already checked that
Philip Bowman	posted 04-08-99 03:51 AM ET I have a similar problem running SMAC on an IBM Thinkpad 300Mhz under NT 4.0 (SP 4). The sound is fine when the opening movie sequence plays.However in the game I get an echo on all speech but no problem with sound effects. DirectX compliance checks out. Any help much appreciated!!
ForCripeSake	posted 04-09-99 02:15 PM ET I have the "echo" sound as well, I tested my sound card and it said It cant do Hardware buffering, only software. I dont know if thats an issue with the sound problem or not. If so, anyway I could fix it?
win	posted 04-10-99 10:46 PM ET Im having the same echoing sound problem. Im running Winnt 4.0 DUAL PII 400 w/ SB Live win
LocustOfChiron	posted 04-10-99 11:23 PM ET I was having the same problem a couple days ago. I fixed it by reinstalling DirectX 6.0 (not 6.1, I had that previously) and using the new sound drivers that came with 6.0.