Losing sound

[h8tank]

I have Creative sound blaster X-Fi Fatality Titanium sound card and the game keeps locking up for about 4-5 seconds then I lose sound. All my drivers are up to date. Any one else having these issues?

[branko]

Do you have EAX Effects Enabled on your card?

Stuffs my sound up if I do?

Other than that, the only issue I have had (with almost identical card) is that very occasionally my sound will reduce to a series of bleeps. This is caused by a very loud sound being the last thing I hear when I die. A restart has always fixed that.

[h8tank]

Yes I have that setting on. Ill turn it off and see if that helps. Thanks for your advise.

[GOPHUR]

Please let us know. TBH we don't QA sound cards much anymore.

[h8tank]

Ok i turned off that setting. The sound isnt cutting off so much. But when the sound does stop, I have to restart the game 3 sometimes even more times to get sound back.

Yesterday I had to restart my computer to get the sound to work in the game. (Keep in mind all sounds on my computer still worked. Just not in game) So I cant figure it out

Edited June 29, 2010 by h8tank

[tazz]

I just updated the X-fi drivers on my extreme music card and it screwed up all the sounds. I totally lost all directional sounds and volume wasn't right.

Not the game's fault it's the driver software and Windows 7, during the install it does not save any previous settings.

I only use headphones now and had to change the Windows sound settings:

Select 5.1 speakers, not headphones to get directional surround sound in game.

In game: re-select audio card and hardware in setup. Not sure if this helped by I think that driver change affected what the game was looking for.

Now all works well.

[lutorm]

I just updated the X-fi drivers on my extreme music card and it screwed up all the sounds. I totally lost all directional sounds and volume wasn't right.

Not the game's fault it's the driver software and Windows 7, during the install it does not save any previous settings.

I only use headphones now and had to change the Windows sound settings:

Select 5.1 speakers, not headphones to get directional surround sound in game.

In game: re-select audio card and hardware in setup. Not sure if this helped by I think that driver change affected what the game was looking for.

Now all works well.

Note that for you to get good 3D sound in win7 you need to install Creative Alchemy and enable it for ww2.exe. If you don't do this you're getting some windows software sound. I thought the sounds were weird when I upgraded from XP until I realized that microsoft totally broke hardware sound support in win7/vista.

Once you have alchemy working, set the card to game mode, headphones and cmss 3d and you'll be a-ok.

[tazz]

Thanks! I had alchemy installed but never directed it to ww2.exe.

All works well now

[hchris]

Please let us know. TBH we don't QA sound cards much anymore.

To be honest todays sound cards shouldn't need to get QA a lot anymore...their tech is mostly pretty stable and copatible with 95% of hardware/software setups. Sure there are always exceptions but those would have to be looked at individually.