12-30-2002, 05:08 AM | #1 |
Lord Ao
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I think I may have posted a topic like this one a few months ago but this is really urgent!
My sound is choppy. When I play games the music/sound effects are abit choppy. When I play a song through Winamp somtimes it is choppy. So what I'm trying to say is that my sound is choppy [img]tongue.gif[/img] Before I re-installed Windows 98 it was fine and I never had any trouble. Now, it is different. My specs are as follows. Pentium 3 733mhz Windows 98 13.9gb HD 128mb RAM Crystal Audio soundcard Voodoo 2 Boston Speakers Thanks! [img]smile.gif[/img] |
12-30-2002, 06:54 AM | #2 |
Baaz Draconian
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It should work fine if you have installed the correct drivers, and directx. Re-installing the audio drivers might help. ´tis hard to say from that information.
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12-30-2002, 06:58 AM | #3 |
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I've been having sound problems on new games too. Age of Mythology is very choppy & Wizardry8 is silent. I dont have problems with other games so I wonder if newer games have a different type of sound delivery that our computers cant read?
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12-30-2002, 06:59 AM | #4 |
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Winamp could be the problem. I installed that program about a year ago and after the instalation was done my sound went to hell. I had to dump winamp and reinstall my audio drivers to fix the problem. Another fix might be to go to your soundcard manufacturere website and download new drivers.
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12-30-2002, 07:26 AM | #5 |
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I wouldn't dump winamp, but try upgrading your drivers. It's possible that your drivers got upgraded in the past, and you actually back-dated them by reinstalling winblows.
Other than that, check what programs you have running in the background, uninstall stuff you don't use. Running adaware might be useful too.
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12-30-2002, 03:51 PM | #6 |
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If you have an antivirus program running, this could be slowing things down. I find a noticable improvment in my computers performance if I kill mcafee before running large programs. If you are using drive compression too, the effect can be pretty bad.
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12-30-2002, 07:34 PM | #7 |
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Sounds like a driver problem to me, too.
You'll want to completely remove the old drivers before installing the most current driver. Sometimes you can install a new one with the old one still in place, but it's always a good idea to completely remove the old ones first because with some drivers(the latest Detonators for example) installing "on top of" the old can reeeeeeeeally screw things up. I wouldn't think it has anything to do with Winamp, but who knows?
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12-31-2002, 06:52 AM | #8 |
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Thanks for the help everyone! [img]smile.gif[/img]
If this helps, I went to my DirectX 8 and went to sound and it said the file cwawdm.sys is uncertified..blah blah Does this mean anything? |
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