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