Author Topic: Game pauses when loading sounds? (Read 262 times)

gatso · « **on:** August 19, 2004, 09:05:16 AM »

I am getting a small 1-2 second pause quite frequently while playing AH2. This happens most frequently just as I have logged on and is most noticable when flying and firing guns for the first time... A 2 second pause just as I am in firing position and invariably pointing straight down has had me fly into the deck a couple of times now.

I assume its a sound issue as if I fire a 50 cal gun on any plane for the first time I get a pause, jump into a different one with 50 cals and I don't. Then jump into a 20mm armed one and I get a pause... etc etc etc.

I'm also getting pauses when coming into range of other aircraft and GV's as well as when they fire weapons or bombs go off, stall warning comes on, slats deploy, other aircraft fire weapons, pretty much everything. This only happens once for each event and then all is fine.

Secondly.. I've stopped downloading skins. I only have 6-7 downloaded in total, the last one being dated Jun 15th. Is there any simple reason I'm not getting them all?

TYIA

Gatso

Its a laptop.

P4 3.0
1024Mb RAM
ATI M10 Mobility (9600) 128mb - Latest Omega drivers
Win XP
Realtek AC97 Audio
AH2 vanilla settings at 1024x768x32. I've not fiddled at all.

Shane · « **Reply #1 on:** August 19, 2004, 10:32:57 AM »

have you tried turning down sound acceleration? this usually resolves the stutters related to sounds.

as for the stutters due to graphic loading, have you checked the box to pre-load in memory?

Zanth · « **Reply #2 on:** August 19, 2004, 10:49:14 AM »

defragged in a while? just taking a guess.

gatso · « **Reply #3 on:** August 19, 2004, 12:00:09 PM »

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Originally posted by Shane
have you tried turning down sound acceleration? this usually resolves the stutters related to sounds.

as for the stutters due to graphic loading, have you checked the box to pre-load in memory?

Good point. Sound Accel was maxed, will alter that. Thanks.

I have the pre load texture box ticked, Ctrl-I is telling me my mem is no where near maxed out. Hence why I thought it more likely to be a sound issue than graphics.

Still can't find any reason why skins are not downloading though...

Gatso

Skuzzy · « **Reply #4 on:** August 19, 2004, 09:31:18 PM »

Check to see if the sound card is sharing an IRQ with another device as well. The AC97 device is going to be a high CPU usage device and has virtually no hardware buffering ability, so you can turn the sound acceleration down to "Basic" and free up mnore CPU as all that slider is doing is telling Windows how much priority to give the sound card.

On the skins, we just released a big batch today. You should be getting those.