XP Sound Problems - Try this out

[Mobhack]

there is not enough of a UNIX market to make the hassles of multi platform development worth the candle.

If you are getting sound - you have some emulation/handling of DirectShow. However the game uses up to 21 strams for concurrent play (overlay of sounds), your card/and or emulator/and or drivers may olny allow 1 simultaneous MP3 stream.

Try background noises off, sound on. If it "chops" any overlapped/overlaid sounds (exchanges of fire, movement noise across multiple hexe moves etc) then something in your system is limiting you to only 1 sound channel. If it is doing it with WAV files as well, definately some part of unix/emulator/sound card/drivers is most likely limiting to 1 channel?.

It may also be something to do with your O/S or emulation's handling of COM objects - each DirectShow channel is a COM object, which gets fed the next sound file, and then gets re-used later when finished if needed. 20 nax sounds at one as I recall (been a while) and the background music/noises channel, and 1 for the mouse click.

Try turning mouse click off if you have it on, BTW.

Cheers
Andy

[RedMike]

Thanks Andy, I'll do some more experimenting along the lines pointed out and report back. There is a sound issue I've read about regarding Linux and ESD and some programs that has to do with multiple sound channels. I'll read up on it.

For the record, my specs:

Pentium 4
2.26 GHz cpu
512 mb ram
GeForce 6800 GT 256 mb
Sound Blaster Live!
ubuntu Breezy Badger i686

Regards,
RedMike...out

[RedMike]

Andy,

Here's the latest from my ongoing Linux experiments.

WinSPMBT runs perfectly well with exception of choppy sounds.
Requires Cedega (v5.03 tested) fullscreen 800x600 mode for smooth play.

SPMBT v3 runs exceptably well with DosBox v0.63. Perfectly playable sound and all.

SPWW2 v7.01 runs exceptably well with DosBox v0.63. Perfectly playable sound and all.

Will continue to try and get sound playback running 100% with WinSPMBT and report back if and when I make progress.

RedMike...out

[RedMike]

OK...I give up. After going through every conceivable sound system/driver combination (esd,alsa,oss etc.) I've come to the conclusion that there's nothing wrong with my hardware setup. I can play multiple sounds concurrently no sweat. I can even run xmms (a music player) whilst running Cedega/WinSPMBT and hear both the music, the game background sounds, friendly vehicle movement sounds, aircraft sounds, and chopped up broken intermittent weapons sounds.

I think the trouble is definitely with Cedega and WinSPMBT.

Have to wait on TransGaming to fix it...maybe.

RedMike...out