Sound lag problem

by Adacore • 12 Apr 2007, 21:31 • Journals
The computers here seem to be giving a stuttering or buffering sound for some people in ET (maybe for those with non-USB headsets?). They're fine with windows media player or CoD2. They're running onboard sound, with ASUS motherboards and RealTEK audio chips, I think. If anyone has possible solutions, that would be great...
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ilL 12 Apr 2007, 22:38
only ET-Ingame? and has every wolfplayer this problem?

*edit: ah "some"

maybe reduce the rate or something, try to figure out the cfgstuff of those with the working sound
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Adacore 12 Apr 2007, 22:44
The ingame sound, not sure what it's like for RtCW, since we haven't installed that yet...
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ilL 12 Apr 2007, 22:55
maybe reduce the sound quality ingame, or syncing with windows? dunno :)
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huumeantti 12 Apr 2007, 22:39
do they have like this program called " realtek sound manager"?
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Adacore 12 Apr 2007, 22:43
As far as I know, no.
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huumeantti 12 Apr 2007, 22:45
check control panel for sound effect manager
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suA 12 Apr 2007, 22:45
set s_mixahead and s_mixPreStep abit up and try again.
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Adacore 12 Apr 2007, 22:50
Doesn't help.
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suA 12 Apr 2007, 22:53
not even if you set it to defaults ?

s_mixahead : 0.2
s_mixPreStep : 0.05

( EDIT: btw have a nice lan )
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SpeaKeR 12 Apr 2007, 22:53
it's sound settings in et configs. sometimes i have verys hit osunds for first 5 mins when i connect to a server. lower the settings in the cfg and it might help
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Gillis 12 Apr 2007, 22:55
Dont use sound, use wallhacks.
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Bulld0g 12 Apr 2007, 22:58
had a look round a few sites and it seem realtech audio uses software to render sound instead of hardware. So when the cpu is at full load doing game and AI calculations the sound stutters. These things may help but im unsure :(

1) Click the Start button > Settings > Control Panel.
2) Double-click the Sounds and Audio Devices icon.
3) Click the Volume tab.
4) Under Speaker settings, click the Advanced button.
5) Click the Performance tab.
6) Reduce the Hardware acceleration to Basic, the 2nd notch from the left.
7) Click Apply and then OK 2 times. Run the game now. Don't forget to turn the acceleration back up to restore the high-end features for your sound card when using other applications.

# Try changing the Sample rate conversion quality:
-Open the windows control panel (start -> settings -> control panel)
-Double click on the Sound and Audio Devices icon
-Locate the Speaker Settings portion of the Volume tab
-Click on the Advanced button inside the speaker settings section
-In the Advanced Audio Properties click on the Performance tab
-Move the Sample Rate Coversion Quality slider from Best to Good.
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overdrive 12 Apr 2007, 23:08
impressive :P
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Bulld0g 12 Apr 2007, 23:09
if it worked it would be :)
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overdrive 12 Apr 2007, 23:10
otherwise looking up the mobo id and installing nforce drivers would be nice, im pretty sure you should get them working.
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Adacore 12 Apr 2007, 23:56
Changing the performance settings certainly helps. So does decreasing the maxfps setting. Hopefully between the two we can sort it out for everyone.
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overdrive 12 Apr 2007, 23:03
RealTEK audio chips

there's your problem, afaik you can install different drivers for those bastards. nforce give average quality good performance, realtek give good qualty bad performance.


Install 'cpuz' and get some more info on that mobo
http://www.cpuid.com/cpuz.php

look up you mobo and see if you can find nforce drivers like these:
http://tweakers.net/meuktracker/8100/nVidia-nForce-Audio-4.57-WHQL.html
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Bulld0g 12 Apr 2007, 23:08
yeah i remember i uninstalled my ac97 and put the nforce ones on i think. Then the sound disappeared after a few months from the left side so i bought a hw card :P
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overdrive 12 Apr 2007, 23:10
well, I just use an old soundblaster and it really kicks ass compared to the onboard sound i gotten used to. Changed it when i tried out linux. Found out buying creative is really worth its money as most audio cards are just cheap software simulations.
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zifff 12 Apr 2007, 23:16
Shewie already found the sollution, com_maxfps 76 !
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clouver 13 Apr 2007, 01:36
snd_restart ?
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