q4 sound stutters; network or outdated SB Live

Post by **prince1000** » Fri Jan 06, 2006 7:23 pm

im having horrible sound stuttering issues and i cant tell if it's network related or because my soundcard is so outdated. im thinking of upgrdaing but im still seeing problems people are having with audigy 2's. does the sound work better with openal enabled? heard that's also a major fps hit, which would make this game totally unplayable for my system.

i've tried multiple driver versions, as well as updating my nic drivers but i just can't seem to get rid of it. the latest q4max seems to have made it worse somehow.

here's both respective settings in my cfg:

//network

seta net_clientMaxRate "25000"
seta net_clientDownload "1"
seta net_clientUsercmdBackup "5"
seta net_serverAllowServerMod "0"
seta net_LANServer "0"
seta net_menuLANServer "1"
seta net_serverMaxClientRate "25600"
seta net_serverMenuDedicated "0"
seta net_clientLagOMeter "1"

//sound

seta s_useDeferredSettings "1"
seta s_minStereo "8"
seta s_deviceName ""
seta s_useEAXOcclusion "0"
seta s_useEAXReverb "0"
seta s_useOpenAL "0"
seta s_radioChatterFraction "0.9"
seta s_speakerFraction "0.65"
seta s_numberOfSpeakers "2"
seta s_subFraction "0.5"
seta s_meterTopTime "2000"
seta s_reverse "0"
seta s_spatializationDecay "2"
seta s_maxChannelsMixed "24"
seta s_musicVolume "0"
seta s_decompressionLimit "2"
seta s_globalFraction "0.8"
seta s_playDefaultSound "1"
seta s_maxSoundsPerShader "1"
seta s_doorDistanceAdd "150"
seta s_volume "0.1"
seta s_ambient "0"

Post by **dzjepp** » Sat Jan 07, 2006 6:01 am

It's probably because the sb live dosen't support openal.

Post by **prince1000** » Sat Jan 07, 2006 2:09 pm

but there's no way ill be able to play with openal enabled. i'm assuming the regular audigy 2 zs will suffice and does support openal? or am i going to have to drop at least $120 for a soundcard?

also, i was getting some graphical stuttering to go along with this and thought they were connected but upon lowering my mouse polling rate from 500hz to the default 125 the graphical stutter completely disappeared.

i think i'm leaning towards it being the state of the netcode and a 3 yearold computer. i'll hold out til a patch and just get irrate when i'm trying to play...

Post by **DooMer** » Sat Jan 07, 2006 2:17 pm

It doesn't do this when you're not playing online? Try playing bots, or singleplayer.

Post by **prince1000** » Mon Jan 09, 2006 4:35 pm

i does it much less on a listen server, singleplayer tho i only played it once or twice didn't have any issues.