Sound issues

[marrow]

AMD64 X2 4800+
Creative Sound Blaster Live X-Fi and latest drivers
ATI Radeon x1600pro 512MB and lastest drivers (video is fine tho).

I do have an AVI codec pack and a Multimedia Processor installed too.
Could that be the culprit?

Thanks for response, Caravel

[caravel]

Have you tried adjusting the sound quality? Try low/medium/high and see if it makes any difference.

Check which is your default media player, I'm guessing this is not the issue, but STW/MTW seem to work best if WMP is the default media player.

I'm not sure about the codecs you've installed but, someone correct me, I think the STW videos are in fact AVI's?? So any changes to the AVI codecs could conceivably affect the videos in some way. This would explain the sound problem in the throne room but not the in battle sound problems! This is what leads me to believe that codecs may not be the issue.

Run dxdiag and check the status of your directX componets, especially Directsound. Test DirectSound and fiddle with the hardware acceleration slider and see if that makes any difference.

And finally, I hate to suggest this but, do you have a disabled onboard sound chip or another old soundcard lying about? If so you might want to try removing your card and trying one of these alternatives. This would rule out the sound card being the cuplrit instantly. If the problem disappears then you'll know what the problem is.

Note: If you do decide to try this then make sure you know what you're doing, take anti static precautions when handling electro static sensitive equipment and remember that it is neither mine nor the .org's fault if it all goes wrong and you end up with a smouldering crispy heap that used to be a computer on your hands. In general if you didn't build that machine yourself or have no experience of building or upgrading PC's, installing and swapping device drivers then don't bother with this.

[marrow]

Caravel,

Format used for in-game vids is in fact .mpg, I made sure that WMP is the default media player too

I don't have a spare sound card lying around either... Ironically I work in IT but our desktops only have onboard cards.

Thanks very much for your advice, mate, especially your safety tips! I'm more or less on the ball AFA handling hardware (even got that little earthing-clip bracelet at home - geek!), but you never know.

Kudos for keeping the forum alive mate, good to know not everyone has forgotten STW!

I'll muck about with sound quality settings and see what comes up.

Thanks again!

[caravel]

Did you try messing with the Direct Sound hardware acceleration and did you test it?