Audio Problems ::Technical SoS::

Ubiquitous · Post by **Ubiquitous** » Sat Jun 24, 2006 4:49 pm

Audio Problems PLEASE HELP

I've been playing Dungeon Lords with very little (technical) problems.
My audio stutters the intro cinematics and completely misses the menu screen. The video is just fine.
I have only changed 2 things at the time of the problem;
(1) I updated my audio card driver (It is an external M-audio card). I've tried changing its settings and reinstalling with no positive changes. But what makes me think it isn't the driver is that I went back to my original one (that used to work) and still had the same suttering.
(2) Norton reported my .net framework had several corrupted files so I deleted it. That's about the same time I noticed the problem. But I have now reinstalled .net framework 2.0 and it still stutters.
other info;
D.L. is installed onto an external hardrive (always has been)
Video is working just fine
All other games and programs are working fine (most of those are on the hardrive as well)

shaconbacon · Post by **shaconbacon** » Mon Jun 26, 2006 2:53 pm

This might be becuase you dont have enough memmory or because that sound card sucks. Try the cmd dxdiag in run and go to sound and change the hardware accleration.

George_K · Post by **George_K** » Mon Jun 26, 2006 5:05 pm

Go to Control Panel\Sound and Audio Devices\Audio\Sound Playback Advanced\Performance... If hardware acceleration is all the way up, back it down 1 notch and see if that helps

Ubiquitous · Post by **Ubiquitous** » Mon Jun 26, 2006 9:12 pm

I have 1 gig of memory and it still shows up under computer properties. (I had a computer's mobo poop and didn't recognize half of its own ram)
I already have acceleration down to "no acceleration". I also have tried it on "standard acceleration" with no difference.
My sound card is made for audio production. It IS a lower line, but I would think a card made for a home sound studio should handle a video game. And as I said earlier, all my other programs (including multitrack recorders and video games) are running fine.
I have played this game for weeks, if not a few months, without having any problems with audio. (After I took down the acceleration to get the voices sounding better.)

TY for any help

Ubiquitous · Post by **Ubiquitous** » Tue Jun 27, 2006 2:06 pm

Stupid me

If you reinstal your drivers enough, it will work.
It seems that it WAS the updated driver that was bad. Even though I did reinstal the old driver I think it didn't delete the updated one. (it said "uninstalling old"... 'twas a lie.)
So remember kids, always uninstal your drivers manually before updating to a new one.