XP Sound Problems - Try this out

RecruitMonty · #1 August 12th, 2005, 03:46 PM

I cannot find it in the system folder. Is the name you gave me correct? What if I just get rid of Media player and then install an older version? Would that suffice? Reinstalling the thing (SPMBT) did not work by the way.

JaM · #2 August 12th, 2005, 05:37 PM

Do you have winXp? Try this. Run game. When game crashes, let windows send error report,look for a details and you will see witch file makes a problem. In my case, it was mmswitch.ax, but maybe in your case it is a different file.

RecruitMonty · #3 August 12th, 2005, 06:07 PM

The game does not crash though, the sounds are just choppy they do not stack properly anymore. I just got rid of mplayer version 10 and went back to 9. When I had ten I could not find this mmswitch thing nor can I find it now, yet the sound still is behaving crappy as I previously described. I have something called Xear 3D on as well. I deleted all of the other players bar real player so i really do not know what the problem is at the moment.

JaM · #4 August 12th, 2005, 07:42 PM

Try reinstall sound driver.

RecruitMonty · #5 August 13th, 2005, 08:00 AM

How do I do that?

RecruitMonty · #6 August 13th, 2005, 08:47 AM

Now when I start the game it trys to connect to the internet as well. I am going to pretty much uninstall everything now in terms of sound etc and start again.

RecruitMonty · #7 August 13th, 2005, 10:09 AM

I have narrowed the problem down to two possible culprits in my audio codecs department; the first is this:
Fraunhofer IIS MPEG Layer-3 Codec (Pro)
and the second is this:
AC3 ACM Decompressor

I got shut a lot of the codecs down and the game sounds ran fine but they had to play from start to fininsh before I could move or fire or do anything else again. I then switched one codec after the other back on until I reached these two. the AC3 appears to be totally screwed i.e it has virtually dissapeared altogether so I removed it from the list of codecs for the time being, the Fraunhoffer seems to be the problem but I cannot just switch it off because otherwise the whole game slows down as I have just described earlier in this particular post.

The following message I will post up is what the menu looks like for the Fraunhofer codec.