Disabling DX Sound Hardware Acceleration in Vista

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Ok, I myself am not running vista, but a friend of mine is, and we've got an
older game we'd like to play together. The game was made for Windows 98, so
it still runs fine on XP and even Vista. The only problem is there's a sound
issue with the game that makes the sound crackle and pop constantly, which is
very annoying, especially durring the cinematics in the start of the game. I
was able to fix this quite easily on my XP maching by going into dxdiag, then
to the sound tab, then turning the sound hardware acceleration off. Problem
solved, for me. However, as my friend is running Windows Vista, he has DX10,
and there's no option to turn the sound acceleration off. So my question is,
how do we make this work in vista, besides downgrading to DX9c (which I'm not
sure is possible in Vista), or downgrade to XP. Is it even possible to make
an adjustment like that anymore?
 
You can check DX configurations by -->RUN---> "dxdiag" ENTER

And see what you can do as well as test it ...or disable
 
Vista does have a run box

Ken


alilly said:
Already have done that. That's why I'm asking here to begin with. Because
the
obvious solution of tweaking settings in dxdiag doesn't work. Plus, from
what
I've heard, Vista doesn't even have a run box anymore. So I'm looking for
a
DX10/Vista equvilant of disabling the Sound Hardware acceleration.
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Click Start and type "run" in the Start Search box. Hit return. In fact
you can type "dxdiag" in the Start Search box and hit return to run dxdiag
without bothering with the run box at all. Start Search doubles as a run
box.

Also, if you don't hit return you will see the tool at the top of the menu
pane and you can right click on it and select Send to...Desktop or Add To
Quicklaunch.
 
Again, all beside the point. I'm not the one using Vista here, and I figure
that my frend has figured out how to do all that. What I'm asking is how do
we fix this hardware accerleration issue, as that's the issue here. I don't
really care if there's a run box or not.
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If your "friend" is as clue resistant as you are, he really shouldn't
be using Vista.
 
Beside what point? You said "I've heard, Vista doesn't even have a run box
anymore." I addressed that.
 
Your friend won't be able to 'downgrade' to DX9, or 'downgrade' to XP. If
he wanted to revert back to XP then he would have to reformat and reinstall
XP from scratch.

I have been unable to find a way to disable sound hardware acceleration in
Vista. DxDiag gives no options for changing anything, and neither do the
sound options in control panel.
 
You made an incorrect statement, showing your lack of knowledge of the
product, and spreading more FUD, so it was corrected...if you don't like
people helping you with Vista....maybe you should go elsewhere...
 
alilly said:
Ok, I myself am not running vista, but a friend of mine is, and we've got
an
older game we'd like to play together. The game was made for Windows 98,
so
it still runs fine on XP and even Vista. The only problem is there's a
sound
issue with the game that makes the sound crackle and pop constantly, which
is
very annoying, especially durring the cinematics in the start of the game.
I
was able to fix this quite easily on my XP maching by going into dxdiag,
then
to the sound tab, then turning the sound hardware acceleration off.
Problem
solved, for me. However, as my friend is running Windows Vista, he has
DX10,
and there's no option to turn the sound acceleration off. So my question
is,
how do we make this work in vista, besides downgrading to DX9c (which I'm
not
sure is possible in Vista), or downgrade to XP. Is it even possible to
make
an adjustment like that anymore?
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....And the name of the game is?

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Yeovil, UK.
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User.
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Windows Vista audio stack does notsupport hardware acceleration (precisely
because of issues on Windows XP that required turning it off more often than
not).
 
If you folks are done bickering, I'd really like to hear from someone
who can actually ANSWER alilly's question. I've run into a similar
problem and would like to know if there is actually a solution, or if I
will have to downgrade to XP...
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Probably is a simple solution to get the game running, Vista does drivers
differently than Windows XP which is why there's no sound acceleration
setting in DirectSound for Vista, Vista doesn't need it.

I'd try uninstalling the games and installing them into a custom folder.

Usually when you install an application it'll ask what folder you want to
install it into. The default is usually something like:

C:\Program Files\Gamename

You should be able to change the folder to something like:

C:\Games\Gamename

A folder outside of Program Files isn't protected, thus older programs
that write files where they aren't supposed to are free to run around any
crash your OS files (kidding, sort-a).

Once the game is installed you might try right-clicking and choose run as
administrator, just in case.

Write back if that fails and post your hardware specs. We're not sitting
at your computer, it's hard to tell what the problem is if we don't know
what we're dealing with.

GL,
-JQP
 
Start > Run > dxdiag (So you know what you're looking for, a sound card or
integrated sound)

Start > control panel > hardware and sound (for vista) > manage audio
devices

Start > control panel > system (for other version of windows) > hardware.
From there you should be able to find it. If you have further problems let
us know.
 
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