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Title: Video/Sound stutters
Post by: TheDudeDVant on June 10, 2004, 11:48:39 AM

I'm having little mini-freezing problems when I fire my weapons or when certain sound happen around me.. Stutters might be a better description. When I turn down my sound acceleration to 'Basic' acceleration(2 notches down) it clears up.

I just installed the newest sound drivers for my board (AC'97 sound) and the problem kinda got worse... Instead of just stutters the sound now sketches out when it stutters.. It can happen in flight or in the tower.. Say when rockets hit the airfield Im at.. stutters w/ sketchy sound.. Very annoying and unplayable at this point cause you fire at a plane 200d infront of you and 2 stutters later the plane is gone.. hehe

Abit IS7 board
p4 2.6c
512 corsair ram
directx 9
GF3 64megDDR card w/  newest nvidia drivers
full CH setup..
Win98se

I have reinstalled dx9..

I get great fps.. Most the time it is pegged at 85.. my refresh rate..  will drop to 50s sometimes in busy areas.. I have noticed, I think, the fps dropping at the same time the stutters happen when I fire my guns.. Game runs REALLY smooth though w/ sound acceleration turned down to 'Basic' acceleration but I only get sound from 2 speakers then.. 8(  I'm out of ideas on what to do.. What other info can i give to help the situation? Thanks in advance!

kappa

Title: Video/Sound stutters
Post by: tactic on June 10, 2004, 01:42:25 PM

have you tried to adjust the video, push sliders toward performance?  i have pretty much eliminated my shutters by adjusting those, and i turned off horizon and transitions , but i left on mipmapp'n thingy...

Tactic

Title: Video/Sound stutters
Post by: TheDudeDVant on June 10, 2004, 06:22:46 PM

Will try tonight.. thanks

Title: Video/Sound stutters
Post by: TheDudeDVant on June 11, 2004, 07:23:42 AM

Those settings had no change...  Still have the problem...  Game runs great when I turn down sound acceleration..

Title: Video/Sound stutters
Post by: TheDudeDVant on June 12, 2004, 08:49:16 PM

Bump

Title: Video/Sound stutters
Post by: LePaul on June 12, 2004, 10:51:38 PM

You know most of the mini warps n stutters I see are...

* First time I pan to a different view (Left, Right, rear, etc)

* If I am less than D400 to a con.  I try to get to D200 before I open up and many times, the minute I hit the trigger, stutter and miss the shot completely.

Title: Video/Sound stutters
Post by: technic on June 12, 2004, 11:17:14 PM

Maybee lower you screen resolution... might work might not ,give it a try

Title: Video/Sound stutters
Post by: nopoop on June 13, 2004, 12:21:23 AM

DirectX 9.0B

Give that a shot.

Title: Video/Sound stutters
Post by: Pyro on June 13, 2004, 10:12:48 AM

What sound card is that?  I know on the SB Live, the newest drivers can fix that up.  But since your newer drivers, made it worse, you may be stuck having to run with basic acceleration.  I had a similar problem with my Nforce2 sound and Farcry that I couldn't clear up without lowering my acceleration.

Title: Video/Sound stutters
Post by: LePaul on June 13, 2004, 10:34:48 AM

I have the built in AC'97/Realtek sound

Latest drivers and all.

It acts weird on Vox too.  Either I come thru loudly or faintly.  Time to hit the bios, shut it off and get a Audigy card or something

Title: Video/Sound stutters
Post by: TheDudeDVant on June 14, 2004, 07:38:32 AM

I have the same sound.. AC97/Realtek...

Pretty positive i have Dx 9.0b..

Could this be video related at all since I have such an old Vid card???

Title: Video/Sound stutters
Post by: TheDudeDVant on June 15, 2004, 07:35:17 AM

Bump.............

Title: Video/Sound stutters
Post by: Pyro on June 15, 2004, 02:52:25 PM

The fact that turning down your sound acceleration clears up the problem pretty squarely points the finger at sound and not video.

Title: Video/Sound stutters
Post by: Skuzzy on June 15, 2004, 03:04:25 PM

The AC97 sound devices are mostly software sound devices.  Never run them at anything more than 'Standard' acceleration levels.
Setting the slider higher will simply cause the operating system to apportion more CPU time to the sound card, and thus cause stuttering.
I would even run it one notch lower than Standard.  All you are doing for AC97 devices is adjusting the amount of CPU priority they receive as there is no real hardware associated with AC97 sound devices.

Title: Video/Sound stutters
Post by: LePaul on June 15, 2004, 08:25:28 PM

Ok, I fired up dxdiag and ran that.

DX also wanted me to test it for compatibility

Its set to Standard now, we'll see how that goes.

Title: Video/Sound stutters
Post by: TheDudeDVant on June 16, 2004, 03:27:56 PM

I think I have found that Realtek has a newer set of drivers out.. They are newer than what the Abit Corp. website pointed to.. I think I will try them out..

If I run my sound acceleration at the 'Standard' setting, I still get the pauses. I have to run it one more notch down at 'Basic'..

I trust this can be resolved on my box as I do not have these troubles with any other games I play..  Not to throw blame at HTC because I am aware the problem exist on my machine.. But there must be someway to fix this problem without having to run a gimped machine only when I play Aces High...

Title: Video/Sound stutters
Post by: Skuzzy on June 16, 2004, 05:09:13 PM

There is really nothing we can do about it.  A good flight sim uses much more processing power than any FPS type game ever could.  Thus, everything that robs cycles away from the CPU will have a side effect.
AC97 sound devices are just incredibly CPU dependent sound devices.  They have little hardware to deal with the sounds.

Turning the acceleration down is not 'gimping' the system.  It just alters the priority of the CPU when using an AC97 sound device.  There is nothing that suffers when doing this and most everything will actually run a little better.