\¯`·.¸biz¸.·´¯/ said:
Installed Saphire Radeon 9600Xt 256mb on friday
last night installed Max Payne2
The sound is a bit dodgy - seems as if its playing 5.1dolby - certain
sounds especially speech is muffled
Anyone any idea if its anything to do with my card or what?
I have installed the latest drivers for my sound card, and still no
difference.
any help appreciated
cheers
biz
This is not quite the same issue as you're experiencing, but I was
having some minor stuttering sound in both Legends of Aranna and Max
Payne 2 with my Fortissimo III 7.1 sound card. I decided, for the heck
of it, to drag out an old Sound Blaster Live! Value sound card that I
had laying around. I downloaded the latest drivers for it, completely
uninstalled my Fortissimo III (the card and it's drivers) and proceeded
with the Live!
I admit that I didn't have high expectations, but the stuttering sound
that I was getting is completely gone now. Legends of Aranna is
markedly improved too. I was amazed especially since I know a lot of
people had complaints about the Live! in general.
My main motivation for trying a sound card change originally had to do
with split-second pauses in gameplay that I was getting in the Far Cry
demo. For what it's worth, thoses pauses went away when I changed over
to the Live! Not bad for a sound card that was given to me for free a
few months ago. I don't plan to run it long term, but it did the trick
for me.
My system specs in brief are a P4 2.8GHz Northwood C processor, Gigabyte
GA-8IPE1000 Pro motherboard (version 1), 1GB of PC-3200 CL3 Kingston
Value RAM (2x512), and a built-by-ATI Radeon 9800 Pro with 128MB.
