Questions about speed and sound

[Suicide Junkie]

Or just copy over the existing tracks with your own MP3s

[Renegade 13]

Speaking of music difficulties...

If I have the music playing when I'm playing the game, once in a while the game will just freeze up on me. However, if I disable the music, the problem disappears. It seems to freeze up when the sound track for a particular system or location ends. Anybody else have any similar problems??

Renegade 13

[ace joh]

do you mean with 'freeze' it crashes to desktop? If yes, then I have the exact same problem as you .

[Exan]

My friend got 100 fps. But he does 3D rendering as a job and bought a graphic card so that explains it. You should hear when he activates the card. It sounds like jet engine.

[Stone-D]

I get no music, period. I'm not bothered, though. I've listened to the music(1) and I must say I prefer not having any - for me, its more immersive without any muzak twinkling in the background.

Setup :

P800EB. 384 ram. 60 gig (40+20) hd. Geforce 2 MX 400. Vibra 128 sound card(2). Win98SE, pruned and savagely brutalized to remove all offensive 'default' software and thus make it more reliable.

(1) Not impressed, sorry. Then again, I just played homeworld 2 so that could be a factor.

(2) Most likely culprit. Not gonna be codecs or whatever - I assure you there's nothing wrong with my windows A/V subsystems. Other than that damned sound card.

[Stone-D]

Originally posted by Exan:
My friend got 100 fps. But he does 3D rendering as a job and bought a graphic card so that explains it. You should hear when he activates the card. It sounds like jet engine.

A) Not '3D Rendering', though its okay. Preferable is 'Raytracing'. Mention that in conversation to him and he'll be quietly impressed.

B) Raytracing is processor intensive. It only uses the graphics card for previews and while you're working on it. Rendering the final scene is done in the background. Also, Starfury itself isn't graphics intensive either. I'm pretty sure my old S3 Virge could handle it with few or no problems(1).

C) The fan on your friend's graphics card is misaligned. I'd suggest to him to get it replaced ASAP if he has cooling problems where he lives.

(1) If you ignore the fact that no trully DX7, never mind 8 or 9, compliant drivers exist for it.

[Instar]

Definately get the latest sound drivers. For a while Creative Live cards were causing crashes/no sound. Make sure its up to date. Same with video card drivers. Windows Update might not have your sound card's drivers, so make sure you get them from the manufacturer's site.