Synurgi Posted December 18, 2002 Share Posted December 18, 2002 The sound in CMBB often sounds distorted or clipped. It occurs most often when the game is busiest, lots of fighting and graphics happening on the screen at once. I have tried various solutions to correct this. I have a Soundblaster 16 PCI card and AMD CPU/via motherboard. I've tried changing sound acceleration, switching card places in PCI slot (by the way the PCI card is not sharing a slot with anything besides "Holder fo IRQ steering") Ive tried using the Via "latency patch", updating the 4 in 1 drivers, updating the soundcard drivers, tweaking pci latency in the bios.....nothing has worked to fix the annoying sound glitch. What mystifies me is CMBO plays and sounds fine without any of the distortion/clipping on the same system whereas CMBB does not. I think I remember hearing someplace that the sounds in CMBB are higher fidelity than CMBO and perhaps that could be why CMBO sounds fine and CMBB does not? In other words the sounds in CMBB are so rich that my PC is choking on them... IF this is the case, is there any way I could experiment with "Downsampling" the CMBB sounds reducing their quality making them more like the ones in CMBO and hopefully fixing the problem that way? I would like to try this but I dont know what kind of software to use. Could anyone here please offer tips on what software(preferably shareware/freeware) I could use to mod the sounds. Any help in this would be appreciated, also if you have a tweaking suggestion I have not mentioned above I would try that too. Thanks for listening. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schrullenhaft Posted December 18, 2002 Share Posted December 18, 2002 I'd guess that downsampling won't work. CM expects a certain signal to be played for certain sounds. This means the sample rate, bit depth and stereo or mono quality need to be the same for any sound files that are modified. I believe CM will playback a downsampled sound faster making it obviously sound strange. The one thing that may not be true about the above may be the bit depth (8 or 16-bit) of the audio, but I'm not sure of that either. Unfortunately I have no particular audio software to recommend when it comes to modifying the WAV files. Though someone should come by to make a recommendation. As to an actual solution to your problem, you may want to consider another sound card. A new sound card may offer more voices/simultaneous sound streams which might be an issue that you're running into here with the distorted sound (but that's strictly a guess). I don't know how much of an improvement a Sound Blaster Live or Audigy may be over your current audio card. You may want to consider a Voyetra/Turtle Beach Santa Cruz or possibly some Hercules sound cards based on some Cirrus Logic DSPs. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Synurgi Posted December 21, 2002 Author Share Posted December 21, 2002 Thanks for your reply Schullencraft.I was able to fix this sound problem indirectly by replacing the old 8 meg trident video card with a new 32 meg Geforce. I have no idea why a new graphic card would fix the sound problem but evidently it did ) 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Synurgi Posted December 21, 2002 Author Share Posted December 21, 2002 Thanks for your reply Schullencraft.I was able to fix this sound problem indirectly by replacing the old 8 meg trident video card with a new 32 meg Geforce. I have no idea why a new graphic card would fix the sound problem but evidently it did ) 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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