Problems with sound

[Ack-Ack]

OK, I'm experiencing a pretty strange sound problem.  Yesterday, I noticed that I no longer had certain sounds in the game.  I can no longer hear my guns firing, flaps being deployed or retracted, gears going down, hits on my plane or the sounds of the puffy acks exploding near my plane.  It's only these sounds, all others work fine.  I've uninstalled AH and all sound packs, reinstalled AH with the default sounds and same problem.  

Thought it might be center channel and I've run a diagnostic program that comes with my Audigy 2 ZS sound card.  At least in that diagnostic, my center channel is working and as far as I can tell, in all other games as well.  I've also run the DXDiag sound test and again, center channel is putting out sound.  

I'm kind of stumped.  

AMD Athlon XP 2800+
WinXP Pro SP2
768megs RAM
ATI 9600 Pro XT 128meg
DirectX 9.c
Audigy 2 ZS
Cambridge 5.1 surround sound speakers



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[Cobra412]

Ack Ack I know when I went to using a headset constantly I forgot to change my setup in the audio profile.  Basically it was trying to do a 7.1 in a headset and all the same sounds you mentioned were gone.

Look to the rear and then deploy flaps, gear or fire your guns.  See if you can hear the sound then.  If you can it sounds like a channel is missing.  Now whether it's a hardware problem or a software problem I don't know.  I'd check all your connections first then I'd recheck your setup under Sounds and Audio Devices in the control panel.

[Ack-Ack]

thanks, will try that when I get home from work.



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[Ack-Ack]

Again, thanks for the help.  I don't know what it was, maybe it was me screaming at my computer and threatening to throw out a window, but now my sounds are working fine.  Strange.



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[DamnedRen]

Originally posted by Ack-Ack
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AMD Athlon XP 2800+
WinXP Pro SP2
768megs RAM
ATI 9600 Pro XT 128meg
DirectX 9.c
Audigy 2 ZS
Cambridge 5.1 surround sound speakers

Ack-Ack, I'm also using a headset and I have a question for you since I have just about the same setup as you but I'm still using WIN98SE. I purchased xp w/SP2 but have not installed it. I also have the ATI 9700 pro card. I was wondering what FR you are getting using XP and what video settings you have turned up/down.
Thanks
Ren

[Ack-Ack]

I'm using the latest Omega 5.1 drivers and card is set to default clock speeds.

Settings:
Anti-Aliasing: Application Preference
Anisotropic Filtering: Application Preference
Texture: Performance
MipMap: Performance
TruForm: Off (don't even know what that does, never messed with it)
Vertical Sync: On

With those settings, I'm averaging hovering around 78 to 80fps and in large furballs over bases on the deck, fps drop to around 45-50fps.

Oh, and I have AH video set to 1024 textures using the hi-res pack as well.


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[DamnedRen]

Hmmmm, what about those three sliders. I'm at work so I can't go into the game now but in video settings do you have all three set to left, middle or right? Do you know which ones i'm refering to? The ones that let you get better perf or vis.

I overclocked my cpu a lil but my normal FR's are in the 60-70 range with drops as low as 34-40 in the heavy stuff close to flaming fields.

I haven't messed with the hi res pack but I 've always used 1024 settings. Does it help?

Thanks,
Ren

[Ack-Ack]

The in game video settings are set to default.  I haven't touched those at all.  The hi-res pack just features the 1024 textures, really can't say if using the hi-res pack or not at the 1024 setting improves things or not.



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