Sound issues in SMAC

vootguy · January 10, 2002, 17:38

Love the game... it worked fine until I upgraded to XP. Now the sound is choppy for the wonder descriptions and other leader descriptions. Soundblaster PCI512, Geforce2MX/400. I upgraded my sound drivers, to no avail, and added the EAX=0 to the .ini file.

johndmuller · January 10, 2002, 18:43

Welcome to NT/W2K/XP.

I get a nice echo in SMAC, it gives some of the tech discoveries an interesting eerie quality.

Maybe a different version (and not necessarily the newest) of the drivers will work better - what about DirectX drivers?

If nothing else, your machine will

you for it and reward you by staying up more.

vootguy · January 11, 2002, 23:03

DirectX drivers are current... XP ships with 8.1

It's still playable... it isn't like the speakers are shrieking at full volume every time there's a tech advance. It's just a little annoying scratchy echo. In fact, I'd say that the game is more playable in this state than Civ3 is in general

vootguy · January 15, 2002, 21:39

Hey,

Just wanted to post this information. I spoke with EA tech support, and they instructed me to turn down hardware acceleration for DirectX sound... from inside the DXDIAG tool. I turned it down to 'basic' and it works flawlessly. It's like I'm playing it for the first time again

Hope this info is useful for other people.