Author Topic: Specific B-17 Sound Issue (Read 419 times)

Denholm · « **on:** March 17, 2007, 12:13:08 PM »

Hello guys,

Ever since I installed my video-card a few years ago, my sound card has been acting up. If I'm listening to anything and on my screen there is some type of a moving object (Scrolling text), the music / sound would speed up and a heavy amount of static would be heard in the music. Well, I never had a problem with the sound of models in AH until the most recent update of the B-17. I didn't care much about it since I don't fly the B-17 that much, but yesterday it just plain bugged me.

I spawned a B-17, my frame rate dropped (no problem with that), and my sound sped up to an incredible amount. So much static was dumped on the sound I couldn't understand anyone asking anything on my TS server. It's just incredible how much static there is when I spawn a B17 and I'm in the cockpit. I'm pretty sure it's my sound card yet I can't replace it anytime soon. So, I'm wondering if there's any way to resolve this issue without replacing my sound-card.

My PC is home-built, so there shouldn't be an issue with it being a sound card that came with the PC and sucks out the RAM. Let me know if you need a DxDiag.

Krusty · « **Reply #1 on:** March 17, 2007, 06:49:23 PM »

Sometimes the closest PCI slots to the video card slot share an IRQ. This can screw with your sound card. Move the sound card phyiscally to a lower slot (something further away from the video card, if possible) and that may solve the problem for you.

Denholm · « **Reply #2 on:** March 19, 2007, 10:14:00 AM »

I'll have a look at it, thanks. Not sure if it uses PCI though, so as I said, I'll look at it.

Krusty · « **Reply #3 on:** March 19, 2007, 01:50:25 PM »

If it's in a slot perpendicular to your motherboard (or parallel to your video card, is another way to think of it) it's almost certainly a PCI card. If it's built into the motherboard, you may have to check the windows settings to see what IRQ it's using, and see if anything else is also using that same IRQ.

Denholm · « **Reply #4 on:** March 20, 2007, 10:06:31 AM »

Krusty, I know what a PCI slot is. I was just saying I'd have to check to make sure the Sound Card was PCI. Because I've been working with a few computers lately that had smaller slot sound cards, yet they weren't AGP.

Krusty · « **Reply #5 on:** March 20, 2007, 10:39:32 AM »

ah, then disregard my last post

Denholm · « **Reply #6 on:** March 21, 2007, 09:19:14 AM »

Well, I switched the sound card, I should check today if the issue is resolved.

Denholm · « **Reply #7 on:** March 21, 2007, 01:39:59 PM »

Odd as it is, yet when I moved the sound card to a different PCI slot my frame rate on games decreased. I'm stuck scratching my head yet am still unsure if the issue is resolved.

Krusty · « **Reply #8 on:** March 21, 2007, 01:54:04 PM »

Well if the sound card was screwing with your video and vice versa, I don't know if you could trust the FPS readout it was giving you at the time. Are we talking a few FPS, or are we talking the "low teens"?

Denholm · « **Reply #9 on:** March 21, 2007, 07:48:29 PM »

Okay, got some news, issue was NOT fixed, so it appears to be the sound card itself. And also the frame rate drop was rather high in FS2004. I was at JFK Int (Which is irrelevant, yet I'm still saying it) where I usually get around 10+ FPS at the detail settings I had. This time I was getting 1FPS and only increased by 3 frames after I reduced quality from "Very High" to "Medium Low".

So, hopefully changing the sound card position again tonight will resolve the issue of frame rate loss.