Sound issues with PC

Lotharius · Post by **Lotharius** » Sat May 23, 2009 2:44 am

'Ello all. I am, as the title impies, having some auido problems with the game. Firstly, one of the noticeable problems is that when certain sound files start or end there will be a clicking/popping sound right at the beginning or end, especially when exiting any sort of interface (like clikcing "OK" on the little pop-ups that show XP gained). It happens a lot and I know its not supposed to be there, though I can't figure out why. The second issue, which is by far the most noticeable and irritating, is that the music that plays when you gain light side or dark side points will not play at all. I've only ever heard it play once and that was probably by luck, except when it did play it just kept repeating over and over everytime I clicked on anything. I can't see any reason for this, and if anyone has any insight as to what may cause it I would have the utmost appreciation.

DesR85 · Post by **DesR85** » Sat May 23, 2009 3:51 am

Are your audio drivers updated? It might help.

Lotharius · Post by **Lotharius** » Sat May 23, 2009 12:37 pm

Yep. Unless I was supposed to uninstall and remove all the old crap first? I'm not too savy with this driver thing besides for installing new stuff. And if necessary I could get info on my sound hardware specs. Games like KotOR 1 and Republic Commando run fine which is why I am so confused as to why TSL has problems audio wise.

Loki[D.d.G] · Post by **Loki[D.d.G]** » Sat May 23, 2009 12:49 pm

If ur audio drivers are correctly updated, then it could be that ur game files are corrupted. Try updating or reinstalling the game.

Lotharius · Post by **Lotharius** » Sat May 23, 2009 2:43 pm

If I reinstall it this will have been the 2nd time I've reinstalled it. And I did update it with the patch, even tried using the updated music/sounds patch. If it helps any here's a report on my sound device: Description: Realtek HD Audio output
Default Sound Playback: Yes
Default Voice Playback: Yes
Hardware ID: HDAUDIO\FUNC_01&VEN_10EC&DEV_0883&SUBSYS_14627250&REV_1000
Manufacturer ID: 1
Product ID: 100
Type: WDM
Driver Name: RtkHDAud.sys
Driver Version: 5.10.0000.5854 (English)
Driver Attributes: Final Retail
WHQL Logo'd: Yes
Date and Size: 5/15/2009 17:19:06, 5080064 bytes
Other Files:
Driver Provider: Realtek Semiconductor Corp.
HW Accel Level: Full
Cap Flags: 0xF5F
Min/Max Sample Rate: 8000, 192000
Static/Strm HW Mix Bufs: 33, 32
Static/Strm HW 3D Bufs: 33, 32
HW Memory: 0
Voice Management: No
EAX(tm) 2.0 Listen/Src: Yes, Yes
I3DL2(tm) Listen/Src: Yes, Yes
Sensaura(tm) ZoomFX(tm): No
Registry: OK
Sound Test Result: Not run

DesR85 · Post by **DesR85** » Sun May 24, 2009 2:52 am

Hmm... what about checking your in-game audio setting? I can't remember how it looks like as its been a while, but either change it from hardware to software acceleration or change it from 3D to 2D acceleration.

If that doesn't work, then I can assume that either the new drivers cause the problem, since it can sometimes affect the audio in older games, or it's the game's problem.

Lotharius · Post by **Lotharius** » Sun May 24, 2009 11:47 pm

Well, I could try using older drivers, thought not being all too knowledgeable about the whole driver thing, would anyone know how could I get rid of current drivers and get older ones, aside from having the original driver CD as I think those may be too recent. Or, if all else fails, how would I know if the game files are corrupt? I tried reinstalling it with the same result. I'd hate to think the files on the CD itself are corrupt.

DesR85 · Post by **DesR85** » Mon May 25, 2009 3:49 am

You will have to uninstall your current audio drivers first, then you will have to clean up any remaining audio files. To be safe, I'd recommend Guru3D's [url="http://downloads.guru3d.com/Driver-Sweeper-beta-2.0.0-download-2186.html"]Driver Sweeper[/url]. Pretty handy tool and it didn't cause me any problems.

Lotharius · Post by **Lotharius** » Tue May 26, 2009 4:00 am

Thanks for the link. If nothing else the driver program helped me clean out all the old stuff. I'll try uninstalling the current drivers and putting older ones in as soon as I get a chance, hoping that the site also has all the driver versions. Hopefully I can find someone who can verify a driver version that plays it correctly between now and then though.