sound pops, crackles

[beukem]

My sound pops, crackles when playing Lockon (flaming cliffs).

Lowering sound accelleration does not help.

I'm using a Creative Audigy 2 ZS and tried different settings (stereo, 4 speakers, surround, 5.1 surround). I also installed the latest audio drivers swapped the card in different PCI slot, etcetera.

 

I'm my other games I do NOT have this problem.

 

My specs are:

Windws XP Pro US Service Pack 2

P4 3.2 @ 3.8 GHz (watercooled)

Abit IC7-MAX3, latest BIOS (watercooled)

Levicom 500 Watt powersupply

Corsair PC4500 Twinx LL Pro 2 x 512GB

Aopen Aeolus Geforce 6800 Ultra 256mb AGP, latest drivers

Creative Audigy 2 ZS, latest drivers

[Guest EVIL-SCOTSMAN]

My sound pops, crackles when playing Lockon (flaming cliffs).

Lowering sound accelleration does not help.

I'm using a Creative Audigy 2 ZS and tried different settings (stereo, 4 speakers, surround, 5.1 surround). I also installed the latest audio drivers swapped the card in different PCI slot, etcetera.

 

I'm my other games I do NOT have this problem.

 

My specs are:

Windws XP Pro US Service Pack 2

P4 3.2 @ 3.8 GHz (watercooled)

Abit IC7-MAX3, latest BIOS (watercooled)

Levicom 500 Watt powersupply

Corsair PC4500 Twinx LL Pro 2 x 512GB

Aopen Aeolus Geforce 6800 Ultra 256mb AGP, latest drivers

Creative Audigy 2 ZS, latest drivers

 

 

lots of other ppl experience the same thing as yourself so I hear

[pappavis]

My sound pops, crackles when playing Lockon (flaming cliffs).

I'm my other games I do NOT have this problem.

 

 

Yes, in other games this is not happening. A apperent fix: go into tge DirectX Control Panel (or dxdiag.exe from command line) then disable Audio acceleration. The mystic pop + associated FPS slowdowns will disappear.

[BBQ]

You can fix this, to some extent--by downloading a latency changing tool--your Creative card is hogging the PCI Latency--or some other device (vid card). Set them all to 64 or 32--perhaps set your vid card to 128--then the snap crackle pop should go away.