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Title: DirectX Sound Accelration
Post by: Max on May 14, 2006, 03:08:17 PM

Something in my system keeps pushing the DirectX sound accel to 100%. I dial it back to 75%, close DX Diag and DirectX and bingo...it's back to 100%. Any ideas how to prevent this?

Thanks

Title: DirectX Sound Accelration
Post by: hubsonfire on May 16, 2006, 06:57:07 PM

Yes, quit playing AH, dweeb.

Title: DirectX Sound Accelration
Post by: hubsonfire on May 16, 2006, 08:16:33 PM

Just occured to me that something similar happened to me this winter. I'd upgraded soundcards, and then had installed another game which I ran at the max sound quality. I'm not sure precisely what happened, but either I bumped acceleration when I'd installed the new soundcard, or the game itself had bumped acceleration back up to Full.

Title: DirectX Sound Accelration
Post by: 38ruk on May 16, 2006, 10:29:52 PM

used to happen to me when i used onboard AC97 sound chip . Never found a workaround for it .

Title: DirectX Sound Accelration
Post by: Skuzzy on May 17, 2006, 11:04:27 AM

Unfortunately, there are some rather rude applications out there that will change those settings without telling you about it.

And there are rude OEM computers (HP and Compaq come to mind) which will change it also.  I guess they figure they know more about how your computer should be configured than you do.

Title: DirectX Sound Accelration
Post by: Max on May 17, 2006, 11:45:20 AM

Quote

Originally posted by 38ruk
used to happen to me when i used onboard AC97 sound chip . Never found a workaround for it .

That's the same chip in my laptop. Guess I'll need to build a game box one of these days.

Thanks all for the input:aok

Title: DirectX Sound Accelration
Post by: Roscoroo on May 17, 2006, 01:11:01 PM

check for an updated driver ... thats what fixed that problem in my old gamer that had ac97 sound .