Sound Problems

Rico1Rico1 NS Oldtimer Join Date: 2002-05-24 Member: 664Members
in Tech Support
<div class="IPBDescription">enabling Hisound messes up my NS</div> Well, after playing NS 2.0 for two days using low quality sound, i have grown to be somewhat annoyed by some of the sounds i hear. The LMG seems to sound too distorted, and so does the HMG and at the same time i can barely hear enemy footsteps now, but thats not my current problem.

When i first installed 2.0, i left high quality sound on because i always run with it on, all mods, including ns 1.04. As soon as i joined a server i noticed something was wrong, apparently having High Quality sound on causes my sound to be incredibly garbled and sound as if it were being played in fast forward, this also happens with any voicecomm i hear. I tried playing around with my sound settings, and making sure i disabled EAX and a3d to no avail. It always happens, whenever i turn on hisound on i restart NS for the changes to take effect and are greeted with the same choppy, distorted, fast forwarded noise. everything works somewhat fine when im using low quality sounds, but i am sure that my sound chip and drivers can provide me with high quality sound, as they support EAX and multichannel 3d sound.


Anyways, i will post my system specs and hope for someone to post a fix or at least have the team acknowledge my problem:

AMD duron 1.3 GHZ
512 DDR 2100 ram
Geforce4MX420 video card
Onboard sound: C-Media AC 97
Motheboard: ECS K7S5A
Output medium: Headphones

Any help or feedback would be appreciated.

PS: I have not tried changing audio drivers to solve this problem as i have found that the other sets of drivers for my sound chip make me unable to use voicecomm or make me have severe sound delays while playing any HL mod. The last set i tried (and all the other ones) make me have sound delays for at least the 1st 10 mins of my game, then sound distorted, and eventually sound normal.
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  • kiwi_3kiwi_3 Join Date: 2003-04-23 Member: 15787Members, Reinforced - Supporter
    I had the same problem but fixed it after a bit of tweaking. I use windows XP so i just went ot teh volume settings and lowered my bass along with the PC speaker volume. After i lowered both a bit, the sounds were back to normal. Now, i gotta get my music to play but i dont think i care much about the music neways
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  • Rico1Rico1 NS Oldtimer Join Date: 2002-05-24 Member: 664Members
    Yeah, i tried what you said before, it doesn't work <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif'><!--endemo-->

    Anyways, i thought it would be useful to say that i am on Windows ME.

    Any help?
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  • TheRequiemTheRequiem Join Date: 2002-11-25 Member: 9956Members
    edited August 2003
    <!--QuoteBegin--{US-DF}Rico+Aug 2 2003, 05:04 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> ({US-DF}Rico @ Aug 2 2003, 05:04 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Well, after playing NS 2.0 for two days using low quality sound, i have grown to be somewhat annoyed by some of the sounds i hear. The LMG seems to sound too distorted, and so does the HMG and at the same time i can barely hear enemy footsteps now, but thats not my current problem.

    When i first installed 2.0, i left high quality sound on because i always run with it on, all mods, including ns 1.04. As soon as i joined a server i noticed something was wrong, apparently having High Quality sound on causes my sound to be incredibly garbled and sound as if it were being played in fast forward, this also happens with any voicecomm i hear. I tried playing around with my sound settings, and making sure i disabled EAX and a3d to no avail. It always happens, whenever i turn on hisound on i restart NS for the changes to take effect and are greeted with the same choppy, distorted, fast forwarded noise. everything works somewhat fine when im using low quality sounds, but i am sure that my sound chip and drivers can provide me with high quality sound, as they support EAX and multichannel 3d sound.


    Anyways, i will post my system specs and hope for someone to post a fix or at least have the team acknowledge my problem:

    AMD duron 1.3 GHZ
    512 DDR 2100 ram
    Geforce4MX420 video card
    Onboard sound: C-Media AC 97
    Motheboard: ECS K7S5A
    Output medium: Headphones

    Any help or feedback would be appreciated.

    PS: I have not tried changing audio drivers to solve this problem as i have found that the other sets of drivers for my sound chip make me unable to use voicecomm or make me have severe sound delays while playing any HL mod. The last set i tried (and all the other ones) make me have sound delays for at least the 1st 10 mins of my game, then sound distorted, and eventually sound normal. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    I have the EXACT same problem you are describing, as was about to post about it... you saved me a thread creation.

    Anyways, I wanna fix this too. THe HiQual Sound ran fine for the first ~1-2 days, but yesterday and today i have been consistently getting nothing but the garbled, fast-forward sound described above. It's REALLY annoying. And, i KNOW my audigy platinum with 5.1 speakers can give me better sound than that.


    I really hope someone now whats wrong here. Thanx for the help.


    AXP 1900+
    Asus A7V333
    512MB DDR 333 (PC2700)
    Audigy Plat.
    128MB Radeon 8500LE

    I'm running HL in 16bit colour. The audio loss came shortly after i reinstalled to undo the 32bit selection, however there were games of proper operation with 16bit colour.

    Edit: Disabling High Quality sounds does NOT fix this for me... as a note. plus, low qual just soundss...terrible.
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  • DaedalusDaedalus Join Date: 2003-04-02 Member: 15152Members
    Well, I also have an onboard C-Media soundcard, and at one point I was having the same problem. I've tried many different sets of drivers (I'm on WinME also) and I finally found ones that worked and also let me use voice comms.

    The solution was to use the latest WinXP drivers for the same C-Media sound card. Now my sound works fine as does voice comm.

    Just to note, my driver date is: <b>7/16/2002</b>
    The File Version is: <b>5.12.01.0639</b>

    I'm sorry I can't give you a link to the drivers as I had to visit many sites and I can't remember the one that worked in the end. I do have the drivers locally just in case though. PM me if you can't find any working downloads and want me to upload my copy...
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  • MonsieurEvilMonsieurEvil Join Date: 2002-01-22 Member: 4Members, Retired Developer, NS1 Playtester, Contributor
    By default, EAX is disabled in the NS config.cfg file. Have you tried enabling it via the HL audio config menu or manually?
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  • Rico1Rico1 NS Oldtimer Join Date: 2002-05-24 Member: 664Members
    edited August 2003
    Actually, getting the drivers Daedalus recommended fixed the problem. I was surfing late at night yesterday and i decided to look for a new set of audio drivers i may have missed, it turns out the manufacturer updated their page with a more recent set of drivers. They seem stable so far and i hope they dont give me any trouble in other apps or games.

    Anyways, just thought i should post this. Requiem, it may be your drivers messing up your sound. If you already have the most up-to-date drivers try downgrading and test different sets for performance.

    Anyways, thanks to everyone who replied to the thread.
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