Quake3World

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)

I'm shocked, no answers? Bump.

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

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?

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

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

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.

Thanks for the console commands, will try them now.

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

hope this helps

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.

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