Unreal226 Final SOUND Problems on NEW HARDWARE

[Damon]

Having serious sound problems with my Unreal.

I used the latest OPENGL patch here to run the latest version 226final. The game is looking beautiful in OpenGl, running it at 1600x1024 RES on a G-Force-4 Ti4600 128MB DDR.

The system specs are Athlon 1.4GHZ, 1 GIG OF DDR MEM, Sound card is a new Sound Blaster Audigy Gamer.

I set audio channels to 32, sound quality to 44100HZ.

No matter if I have surround sound on or off the music still breaks up. Help!

[Aprazeth]

It sounds like you didn't install the VIA Drivers, just yet and/or the VIA latency patch.

A lot of Windows users are complaining with breaking up sound in Unreal and Unreal Tournament.

To fix this enter the following in your unreal.ini

In the sound section you will a part that says; latency
that is most likely set at 40. Set this at 60.
Save and close

This will fix crackling in Unreal Tournament, Unreal etc.

[BVH]

Is it just your music or does it happen to sound fx as well? I got an sb live and I some times get distorted sound in games like unreal, UT, WOT and even in build 697 of unreal 2 beta. It happens randomly and I cant find any way to fix it . Though I seem to get it more with unreal 1 if I run it with the new opengl drivers.

I all so found this on the unreal tech site:

"Using the latest release (July '00) of SBLive Win2K drivers from Creative may cause frame rate hitches and distorted sound in UT for some users. "

So it seems Epic knows about it...

[Smirftsch]

kinda weird because unreal2 uses a complete different soundsubsystem....i guess more creative build some shitty drivers...

[BVH]

Well the beta I had was old (like I said it was only build 697 epic is up to 900+ if I remember right) and only came with two audio Subsystem. The old galaxy 3d sound that’s been in all the Unreals and a Direct x Subsystem witch seem more limited in setting so I never bothered to test it.

[Smirftsch]

mailed with daniel vogel a while ago, he told me that the galaxy was the first thing he killed while joining epic - so expect to have OpenAL in Unreal 2

[Dutch]

Hi all,

That latency change from 40 to 60 fixed my sfx probs. I'm using 224v on an Athlon 600 with GeForce 2 MX, SBLive!, 256 RAM, and XP Pro. Just so everyone knows in which cases it does work.

BTW, I'm also using the 2104 OGL. Great job on that BTW. D3D sux0rs.

-=Dutch=-

[Hyper]

You might want to try the sound driver of Unreal 225f. This one has the best quality for EAX positional audio, but there is a bug that breaks the volume control.