problem with sound

Post by **duffman91** » Wed Oct 19, 2005 5:05 pm

I noticed that the sound in q4 SP and MP likes to stutter on me. Doom 3 never did this. I'm almost positive that there is some way to fix this through the console.

P4 2.4
1 gig ram
9600 xt
Sb live

I will try the onboard sound when I get home. Hopefully I am not alone
My brother has an identical system with no issues. (And it plays like silk)

Post by **duffman91** » Wed Oct 19, 2005 8:35 pm

I'm shocked, no answers? Bump.

Post by **dzjepp** » Wed Oct 19, 2005 8:40 pm

This is what I have in my config for sounds try experimenthing with it:

seta s_volume_dB "-5.079365" //This is default I think
seta s_numberOfSpeakers "2" //If you don't have 5.1
seta s_force22kHz "1" //Higher for better quality sound
seta s_doorDistanceAdd "150" //This is default I think
seta s_globalFraction "0.8" //This is default I think
seta s_subFraction "0.75" //This is default I think
seta s_playDefaultSound "0" //This is default I think
seta s_meterTopTime "2000" //This is default I think
seta s_reverse "0" //This is default I think
seta s_spatializationDecay "2" //This is default I think
seta s_maxSoundsPerShader "10" //This is default I think
seta s_clipVolumes "1" //This is default I think
seta s_useOcclusion "1" //This is default I think
seta s_realTimeDecoding "1" //This is default I think
seta s_noSound "0" //This is default I think

Post by **shiznit** » Wed Oct 19, 2005 8:41 pm

Doom 3 had it's own sound system so a sound card wasn't needed. Is this the same with quake4? If so, try disabling the sound card? Maybe drivers for it?

Post by **dzjepp** » Wed Oct 19, 2005 8:42 pm

lol, you still need a sound card. What it meant was that the 5.1 processing was done via the engine so there wasn't a huge hit with performance

Post by **shiznit** » Wed Oct 19, 2005 8:44 pm

My bad, I meant that you didn't need a high quality one. Acctually I have no idea what I'm talking about.

Post by **dzjepp** » Wed Oct 19, 2005 8:45 pm

Yeah that one is on the mark.

Doom 3 worked perfectly well with on-board mobo sound actually, it all played well nice since the engine was processing it.

Post by **duffman91** » Wed Oct 19, 2005 9:39 pm

Thanks for the console commands, will try them now.

Post by **plained** » Wed Oct 19, 2005 9:46 pm

this may not be applicable to q4, and i dont have q4 yet, but what about s_mixahead ?

hope this helps

Post by **spookmineer** » Wed Oct 19, 2005 10:45 pm

A soundcard will always give you more fps then when using an onboard sound chip. Fps may suffer from older soundcards, you can check by disabling the sound: if you get a nice fps increase it may be time to get a newer soundcard.

Post by **duffman91** » Wed Oct 19, 2005 11:47 pm

Fucking HDD's were running in PIO mode and not DMA. WTF? I think during the installer they might have switched over (since it took so long).

Everything's great now 8). Running smooth on a 9600 xt