Sound stutter

(eq-Shrike) #1

Playing ET ion my new lappy is all well and good but for some reason whenever a sound file is played 'e.g. ‘The enemy have captured the forward bunker’ …etc the game freezes for a split second …

Any ideas ?

Ta

Olli

(Salteh) #2

I blame arnout!!
Indeed, not bob this time :slight_smile:

Dodgy drivers? :frowning:

(Ragnar_40k) #3

Maybe increasing com_soundMegs will help.

(fattakin) #4

Can happen on any underspec machine… turn the music off and the sound quality to the lower setting and see if helps (if the soundmegs thingy dosent work)

(eq-Shrike) #5

Cheers but I doubt that it’s the machine

http://www.alienware.co.uk/intro_pages/area-51m_7700.aspx

(eq-Shrike) #6

Just in case I dont manage to solve the issue - is there a way to turn the announcements off ???

(no_shad) #7

Ah not the stutter again, I spent months getting rid of mine :smiley:
Until you fix the cause, cg_noVoiceChats 1 may help.
The main cause for me were bad sectors on a second drive.

Does the disk access led light during or directly after a stutter?

(eq-Shrike) #8

cheers shad - i hope it isnt the HDD since the lappy is only a week or so old.
Just in case I’ll run checkdisk or whatever it’s called …

I did have this before one my home PC but only when I had ZA running. I don’t have ZA running now but I may try turning of the XP firewall.

I changed the sound hunkmegs to 64 and sound quality to low and it seemed to help some … my quest continues …

(Nail) #9

turn off the xp firewall

(eq-Shrike) #10

Gimpster also suggsted turning off antivirus as it may be trying to scan the sound files as they are read from the HDD …will give that a go too

Thanks to everyone who has posted

Take it away nagman - :nag: :nag: :nag: :nag: :nag: :nag: :nag: :nag:

(no_shad) #11

Check your event log for any clues, try running memtest to check your ram.

I assume this stutter also happens on other games?
What does the lagometer tell you when it stutters?

(eq-Shrike) #12

well i switched of the fwall and antivirus and i still get the odd stu …st …st …st … glitch but all in all Im much happier

Cheers all

(Gimpsta) #13

You can run XP’s performance monitor (perfmon) and run traces on CPU, disk I/O, network I/O … loads of stuff.
Write the reporting to a logfile and review after playing for a while. Should help to pinpoint the problem.

Gimme a shout if you want to know how to configure.

(EB) #14

you could also open the task-manager and right click the ET.exe and set it as HIGH-Priority. That may help.

(eRRoLfLyNN) #15

My ET is set as only priority :]

I had some problems with stutter a few weeks ago - a change of vid card later I have no problems now. Makes no sense to me?! Can only think it was memory issue, XP not allocating it properly or something. I also decreased the sound quality like yourself, and no problems afterwards.