White noise with FPS games

wautd · Post by **wautd** » 2005-12-13 05:13am

This is a problem I got for quite some time now and for some reason, I only got it with some FPS games (battlefield 1942, chronicles of riddick, FEAR,...). Any other type of game works fine (RTS, RPG, racing,...)
Basicly it goes like this: When I'm playing, at start everything is ok. But after a random time I suddenly get a loud or VERY LOUD white noise sound. Having to choose between loud, annoying sound or no sound at all, the game becomes unplayable for me. Restarting the game helps in "most" of the cases, so with Fear most recently that was what I always did (it didn't happened always, resetting 1 or 2 times usually solved it, and if it happened it usually happened after playing a while. In other words: still playable)

But now I bought Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory and I got it too with this game. And I got it bad: I got the white noise sound very soon (first 5 minutes of play) and restarting the game doesn't seem to help at all. While the game really looks like being kickass, having the restart every 5 minutes makes it blow.

So my question is, does my problem sounds familiar to any of you guys and if so, can you identify what the problem is and how the hell can I get it fixed?

Bounty · Post by **Bounty** » 2005-12-13 06:14am

Have you tried reinstalling your sound drivers ?

wautd · Post by **wautd** » 2005-12-13 06:33am

Bounty wrote:Have you tried reinstalling your sound drivers ?

Last time I tried it didnt work. I'll try again (once my bloody internet works again that is)

Acidburns · Post by **Acidburns** » 2005-12-13 10:56am

I used to have this problem all the time with my older computer. It was a VIA motherboard with onboard sound. I found that disabling hardware acceleration for the onboard soundcard would help for most games.

I got a cheap soundblaster card for it, and that solved my problems.

wautd · Post by **wautd** » 2005-12-13 12:04pm

I got a soundblaster thingy too

But tweaking a bit with the hardware acceleration stuff might be a good idea.

Post by **Mr Bean** » 2005-12-13 01:13pm

Do you have a mic installed?

wautd · Post by **wautd** » 2005-12-13 01:58pm

Mr Bean wrote:Do you have a mic installed?

usually. The fucker doesnt seems to work lately. But good point as well. I'll check it as well the next time (finally got internet connection at home for the time being so i'll be damned to play a single player game now

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Post by **weemadando** » 2005-12-13 03:39pm

I get that on the Caen map in CoD2 multiplayer. Happened last LAN. Just got a horrible clicking noise in the headphones. When I went to the menu it stopped. When I went back into the game, it started again. When we went to any othe rmap it didn't happen.

wautd · Post by **wautd** » 2005-12-15 04:08pm

Acidburns wrote:I used to have this problem all the time with my older computer. It was a VIA motherboard with onboard sound. I found that disabling hardware acceleration for the onboard soundcard would help for most games.

Succes! I've put directsound on basic and no problems so far