XP Sound Problems - Try this out

Fabfire · #1 August 29th, 2005, 09:53 AM

Jesus Almighty Christ! Guys... Come on...

I am only making another alternative available. There are lots of people, as it seems you two just ignore it, that have difficulty even in finding a file within their HD... And who prefer the 43 MB download. And, Don, qualifying those persons as "totally inept" is just being rude (to put it mildly), and doesn't help WinSPMBT a little bit. Why would I bother to upload a 43 MB file, if it is not to help somebody else?

What's going on here, anyway?

How about doing a little thinking before dropping heavy artillery on people who are only wanting to help?

Fab

DRG · #2 August 29th, 2005, 10:17 AM

A BIT sensitive for some reason today?

YOU were the one asking people to only DL your file because of bandwidth usage problems. ALL I did was point out the reasons why *I* provided the alternative I did. If there are people who prefer to DL 43 MB over 1.8 and a couple minutes work then you've definitely provided a useful and valuable service for them and there is nothing wrong with that.

Take a pill, NOBODY was "dropping heavy artillery on people who are only wanting to help" gimme a break. If you want to provide this to people that just fine by us.

Don

RVPERTVS · #3 August 30th, 2005, 01:18 AM

Just one question:

Allthe problems discussed in this topic are XP related right?...I mean, there shouldn't be any issue runing under W98, with any codec or whatever the culprit is on XP right?

DRG · #4 August 30th, 2005, 06:34 AM

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RVPERTVS said:
Just one question:

Allthe problems discussed in this topic are XP related right?...I mean, there shouldn't be any issue runing under W98, with any codec or whatever the culprit is on XP right?

The key seem to be XP combined with systems that use an integrated sound chip though not in 100% of the cases. I don't recall anyone with w98 and a proper sound card having difficulties ( ??)

Don

RVPERTVS · #5 August 30th, 2005, 10:47 AM

What do you mean by "a proper sound car"?, any suggestion?

I�m asking because I�m upgrading my machine and I don�t want to spend money just to find out that my new acquired hardware has issues with the game or that there�were better hardware options to play it.

Thanks in advance

RecruitMonty · #6 August 30th, 2005, 04:24 PM

Well I think that file from M256 was damn useful. M256 you are a great help thanks a million.

d64 · #7 August 31st, 2005, 08:52 AM

I also think it's not a bad idea to have the wav files downloadable. Not because I think converting them is hard, but because I believe people should avoid installing too many programs on their computers in this day and age.

One idea that came to me is that there are many freeware command-line sound converter programs available today, which are stand-alone executables and do not require installation, so maybe the sound directory could include one of those and a bat file that would batch-convert all the files just with one doubleclick of the mouse.

Also, as the wav files are pretty big, would there be any interest in a bittorrent containing them?

(Btw, for the record, I had the game crash fairly quickly before I converted the files to wav. I am using winxp but my soundcard is a 24/96 pci card, not integrated.)

Stian · #8 November 10th, 2005, 07:27 PM

Zaphod,
Here's something you could try; a way of out finding what codecs are used when playing audio files like mp3 are using a free tool like GSpot:

http://www.headbands.com/gspot/download.html

It's a bit technical but here's a quick walkthrough;

In GSpot, go to the File menu, then Open -> Select an mp3 file (any will do I think), click Render (bottom), then look at Audio Path there and you should get the name of the codec windows uses to play the file.

Also, click on the 'Status' line and then the name of the filter for info on where the offending file is located on your system.

Then go the the windows Start menu -> Run, type 'regsvr32 /u path to codec file' and the codec should be uninstalled.

Hopefully the game will then use your the default, MS-supplied codec for mp3 playback.

Hope this helps you to finally enjoy the game!

Stian

RecruitMonty · #9 August 30th, 2005, 04:29 PM

I do have a proper souncard by the way and we are not inept just because we cannot get something that used to work to work properly again.

RVPERTVS · #10 August 30th, 2005, 07:34 PM

Take it easy man��

I�m sure Don didn�t mean it the way you�re putting it

I don�t know how to convert a mp3 file into a wav file and I don�t consider myself inept it�s just I haven�t read the instructions yet, I�m sure after that I will be able to.

But at the same time I don�t consider as geeks people who can, it�s just they have more free time. I guess