Sound problem - retarded

Post by **robochief** » Sat Mar 25, 2006 9:23 pm

In the menu and ingame, the sound comes about a second late.
Cause? Solution?
Thank you.

Post by **axbaby** » Sat Mar 25, 2006 11:04 pm

upgrade sound card drivers?
run dxdiag in the start run box and see if directx for sound hates you?
delete q3config.cfg in q3 baseq3 directory then boot up quack3 again .. test?

Post by **robochief** » Sun Mar 26, 2006 6:03 am

Deleting the cfg file does nothing, and so does changing the acceleration level of sound hardware (in dxdiag), from total acceleration to none.

Post by **^misantropia^** » Sun Mar 26, 2006 11:06 am

Play around with s_mixPreStep and s_mixahead, see what works best for you.

Post by **robochief** » Sun Mar 26, 2006 10:12 pm

^misantropia^ wrote:Play around with s_mixPreStep and s_mixahead, see what works best for you.

Tried with many values, results were the same.

riddla wrote:also try s_doppler 0

Saddly, nothing. :icon26:

Any clue?

Post by **^misantropia^** » Sun Mar 26, 2006 10:43 pm

Just to be sure, did you do a /snd_restart after altering those cvars?

Post by **ONX** » Mon Mar 27, 2006 9:33 pm

the sound can lag behind a bit on a slower computer, its only happened to me in flash animations where i check an im ingame... but never in Q3.

Post by **robochief** » Mon Mar 27, 2006 9:37 pm

riddla wrote:knowing your hardware specs would be a huge help

Sure.

AMD Athlon XP 2100+@1700MHz
MSI KT4 Ultra
Kingston 256MB@400Mhz + 256MB@333Mhz
Western Digital HDD 40GB 7200rpm
Western Digital HDD 80GB 7200rpm
MSI nVidia GeForce 4 SE-T MX 440 64MB DDR

Sound card: C-Media (onboard)

^misantropia^ wrote:Just to be sure, did you do a /snd_restart after altering those cvars?

I tried the different settings being on the main menu. Executing quake3.exe , and right after the intro videos.
Tried with and without /snd_restart

Post by **axbaby** » Mon Mar 27, 2006 10:05 pm

linkelage to drivers
http://www.cmedia.com.tw/e_tech_01.htm

edit
apparently it comes with
Audio=CMedia 8738 supporting AC3 5.1 CH purpose
http://www.cmedia.com.tw/download/OS_e- ... _index.htm

Post by **Oeloe** » Tue Mar 28, 2006 1:43 am

Some motherboards with nForce 2 chipset (including Soundstorm sound) had the same problem. It can't be solved with Q3 cvars. It's a driver issue. Your mobo doesn't have an nForce 2 chipset but a KT400. It's probably the drivers too though. Try a different (older or newer) version.

Post by **robochief** » Tue Mar 28, 2006 2:29 am

Will try indeed. Thank you all for your posts.

Post by **robochief** » Sun Apr 02, 2006 6:46 pm

axbaby wrote:linkelage to drivers
http://www.cmedia.com.tw/e_tech_01.htm

edit
apparently it comes with
Audio=CMedia 8738 supporting AC3 5.1 CH purpose
http://www.cmedia.com.tw/download/OS_e- ... _index.htm

Downloaded and installed latest drivers, still the same.
Apparently, it isn't this way only in Quake 3; today I installed "Return to Castle Wolfenstein" and the same issue appeard: both on the main menu and in-game.

Post by **Oeloe** » Sun Apr 02, 2006 8:23 pm

Try a using a PCI latency tool. 'Wrong' PCI latency settings can cause sound stuttering. The NGO video drivers include such a tool and say 64 is a good value. You should be able to find more info on this.

Post by **robochief** » Mon Apr 03, 2006 4:24 am

I used PCI Latency Tool 3, increased latency from 32 to 64 and 128, but nothing.
Am I doing it alright? Could it be something else?

Post by **axbaby** » Tue Apr 04, 2006 1:02 am

directx handles sound .. try reinstalling directx or upgrading.

btw casle wolfenstein also uses the quake engine .. do any other games cause a problem?

if not then it a quake3 problem.
are you using the lastest versionof q3 1.32?