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quake3 was running fine 2 days ago...now all of a sudden the sound decides to f*** up.

it sounds like its running at about 3 frames per second (real chunky sound) even tho the video is displaying its usual 125.

i have tried a re-install of quake3 and found that its the 1.27h_beta exe that does it ?!, when i apply the 1.27g exe the sound seems to run at like 30 fps with a 200ms lag from when the sound happens to when i hear it. sys specs are following:

celeron 875
sdr 6600 (asus) with dets 6.50
sound blaster live! value with 4.11.01.0711 drivers (10-07-99) these are recent as of a few months ago from the creative web site. (sound card was purchased feb 2000)
128 ram
6gb seagate hdd 5400 (about 2 years old now)
8x panasonic DVD - recently ive noticed that there is like a fuzz sound when i watch DVD's (i can only bearly hear it when volume is at max) but i know that it wasnt there before.
running win98SE with only the vbrun60sp5.exe patch installed (updates dll's etc, installed about a month ago now) no other patches have been installed on it cept for ie 5.5

if any of you have any suggestions at all please let me know
my best guess is that its the sound card (der) or the drivers, i will get some updated drivers as a last resort as i am happy with these ones atm (only sb ones that dont gimme any troubles) also it might be my old hdd ?! (getting a 46gb 7200 soon)

oh and *every* other sound application works fine....the only other game i have tried it on tho is quake cause i dont have any other games or couldnt be bothered installing them as i dont think it will help

*ok i tried colin mcrae rally2 and halflife (no updates) and they both work fine*

any suggestion would be much appreciated

-fork^

take out the sound card see what happens to q3
then uh try something else someone else come up with an idea

um, i know i used to get a problem with my sound seeming "lagged"
is this happening online or lan, or in a particular mod?

OMG u played HL hehe

Ahh easy fix, go to where your q3 is downloaded, delete it, Then install cs, this will kill all your gay stuff on your pc. Delete cs. then get the Operation Flash Point Demo, play that forever, Then reinstall q3. PLUG IN YOUR SPEAKERS. and play, ooher TRAVIS your always the first to reply, and the last to actually help. ooher

WarT ; thx dude....

ive already played with hardware configs....nothing wrong there :\

any other suggestions more than welcome

also, have u tryed a different sound quality setting in q3?

ive tried high and low quality sound settings.

i have even uninstalled q3 and reinstalled it completely with new configs and every combination of patches but no luck

Do what i said ffs in that exact order and it will work. ooher

try changing s_mixahead
it could be set too low or something
i get some sound probs occasionallyand chaning this seems to fix it

do yeah that work will maybe should. ooher

Kaygen ; if you dont have anything that contirbutes to helping my problem can you please post your utter s*** on other topics and not here.

thank you

f*** you sk, you dun own this board and i can post what i like, as its public and game related and so are my posts, *gives you the finger* say hello to the birdie. ooher

gayken got cut

Travis to rearrange learnt letters. ooher

and you learnt to put your words around the wrong way

hey Fork - my old SB live Value did the same thing as it was dying it's natural death.

Have you tried to emulate the prob in a mate's machine under Q3a?

The Bar Fridge The Bar Fridge. ooher

Fork, this problem has been discussed to great extent on PlanetQuake for some time now. The guys at ID have been trying to re=produce the problem but reckon they can't. There are heaps of people on that forum who all have similar problems relating to the 1.27h beta and Sound Blaster Live cards. Me included.

My problem was not the sudden drop in perfromance but rather a crackking or 'pausing' effect every now and then. really s***ted me off... using the 1.27g patch and it was fine. The id guys offered the reason as being that the game is contantly laoding 'media' on the fly and this can cause system degradation...not too many on the forum baought it though.

Ok so from all the solutions I tried this one seemed to alleviate my prob and it might help you.

In the console type

/com_Hunkmegs 64
/com_Soundmegs 16
/com_Zonemeg 24

give it a go . Hope it helps.

f*** you sk, you dun own this board and i can post what i like

funnily enough, that's 100% not true

BAM! Trog speaketh!

:)

i managed to fix the problem after d/l the latest drivers (again) off the creative website.

i uninstalled my sound card and deleted all the files associated with it.

after reinstalling my sound card from scratch q3 now seems to work fine

go figure ?!

-also thanks to those that helped =)

hahah gayken am ghey!

Yeh, there's lots of people that have been having problems with SBLives (me included)