ET sound problem.

I running ET, and it mostly works ok, except for one infuriating problem. It seems that the game will often 'freeze' for a fraction of a second while it's playing audio clips. Especially the very first time a particular clip plays. Since ET has hundreds of different audio clips, at least it seems like (weapon sounds, environmental sounds, announcer chatter ("Dynamite Planted", etc), and player voice chats "I need a medic!", etc), the game is practically constantly doing this.

Is there some way get ET to pre-cache all the sounds, to reduce or elliminate this problem? Or am I just stuck with this because I have a cheapo sound card? (With a laptop, I'm not sure you can really upgrade the sound, unfortunately).


HELP :<
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I think you have a problem with your sound :/
Thnx, but u help me finnish good player :D
Parent
KRP, wait what ?..
Parent
s_<TAB>

?????????

post them
If u mean the sound settings on my config

Here they are:

seta s_volume "0.3"
seta s_bits "16"
seta s_channels "2"
seta s_doppler "0"
seta s_khz 22
seta s_mindistance "0.000000000000000001"
seta s_maxdistance "99999999999999999999"
seta s_volume "0.5"
seta s_musicvolume "0"
seta s_separation "0.5"
seta s_mixahead "0.2"
seta s_mixPreStep "0.05"
seta s_defaultsound "0"
seta s_wavonly "0"

I know nothing about it tho.
Parent
looks normal, maybe some problems with ur soundcard ....
Parent
set s_mixahead "0.2" is a safe value

but plz try

set s_mixahead "0.12"

to see what happens
Parent
I set 0.12 as you told me too. Just played one map and lag spikes is gonne. I don't know if it is def gone but for now it is.. placebo?


What does that thing do?


Btw thnx man... but I dont know if its gonna work in the near future.
Parent
mixahead is directly related to sound card

defines amount of sounds played at same time +amount of time music is buffered before it is played, depending on other settings at same time
Parent
you can precache them by using /play *filepath* AFAIK
try not using sound, hope it helps.
cu


edit: DOING MAN? Tengo de la nueva y salio muuyyyyuyuyutyuyuyuyuyuyuyuyu buena hahaha
now serious:
i know its boring, but reinstalling ur windows actually fix this prob. had it and that was only thing that workd.
hf.
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