Reply With Quotewut kinda sound card?
OK, so I'm hearing music perfectly fine from WMP. I discovered the problem when I tried to start SW: Battlefront. It said "No sound hardware detected: do you want to continue?" I was like wtf but clicked yes, and lo and behold, the game produces no sound. This is bizarre. I go to control panel -> sounds and audio devices, go to the "audio" tab, and everything is grayed out completely. This wasn't the case yesterday - I know this because I was trying to mess with the sound recording device earlier (after which everything still worked, AFAIK). Everything on the Volume and Voice tabs are grayed out as well, and on the Sounds tab I cannot play the sound - the play button is grayed out. Everything in the Hardware tab says that it is working properly, however.
Someone please fix my computer
wut kinda sound card?
are your speakers plugged in? I guess so since you can hear music.
my speakers came unplugged when moving my computer around once.
as they always say: update your drivers.. in this case it would be your sound card drivers.
SoundMAX Digital Integrated Audio.Originally posted by Sava
wut kinda sound card?
try using system restore if you can't get it working again
*dies*Originally posted by Kuciwalker
SoundMAX Digital Integrated Audio.
Fix that first.
Anyway, Start -> run and type "dxdiag"
Maybe DirectSound can't find it.
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I fixed it! I rebooted. I forgot that I had ctrl-alt-deleted a bunch of processes on boot this morning. Apparently one of them was sound.
*dies*
Fix that first.
It serves my purposes. I don't actually care about great quality sound
then you need to fix yourself first.Originally posted by Kuciwalker
I fixed it! I rebooted. I forgot that I had ctrl-alt-deleted a bunch of processes on boot this morning. Apparently one of them was sound.
*dies*
Fix that first.
It serves my purposes. I don't actually care about great quality sound
sound is important in games. or do you not use this computer for gaming?
Graphics is more important. I'm buying a new graphics card first. Plus, really high quality sound isn't that important, not when I just have two speakers.
our children is learning - george w bushOriginally posted by Kuciwalker
Graphics is more important.
get a job
get both
sb audidy 2 zs platinum isn't that expensive...
well worth it kuci
: tongue :
there's always identity theft
Sound is even less important than graphics in games, while graphics is less important than gameplay.
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A properly done sound system makes a good game better.
I hate playing Halo/Halo 2 on a non-Dolby Digital 5.1 system, and I hate playing games with surround sound disabled as well. EAX-HD is awesome also.
What I want is the new Creative SoundBlaster X-Fi.
That chip is a monster. The SoundBlaster Live chip can do 335 MIPS (million instructions per second), Audigy can do 424 MIPS, and the new X-Fi can do 10340 MIPS.
Live can do 16 audio channels at once (with effects), Audigy can do 64, and X-Fi can do 4096.
Live had 2 million transistors, Audigy had 4.6 million, and X-Fi has 51.1 million.
The X-Fi even comes with 64 MB of RAM onboard dedicated to audio samples/processing, and Battlefield 2 is a game that can already use it.
Plus the usual 24-bit/192 KHz support, and 109 dB SNR. To put that SNR in comparison, it's two orders of magnitude higher than the iPod (quite literally 100x better)
"The issue is there are still many people out there that use religion as a crutch for bigotry and hate. Like Ben."
Ben Kenobi: "That means I'm doing something right. "
What probably happened is that your sound system (decoders) is run in software rather than hardware. Kill the process and no sound. I'm surprised that your system was stable after you killed the processes.
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I'm surprised I could still hear music after that.
OTOH, I don't want to spend the time or money to set up a surround sound system, and don't care that much about quality sound rather than decent sound.Originally posted by Asher
A properly done sound system makes a good game better.
I hate playing Halo/Halo 2 on a non-Dolby Digital 5.1 system, and I hate playing games with surround sound disabled as well. EAX-HD is awesome also.
You can get 5.1 surround sound speakers for $50.
"The issue is there are still many people out there that use religion as a crutch for bigotry and hate. Like Ben."
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WRONGOriginally posted by Urban Ranger
Sound is even less important than graphics in games, while graphics is less important than gameplay.
you need good sound to hear footsteps in counterstrike
so you can tell where they are
then you walk...
wait for them
they turn the corner
then
BOOM HEADSHOT!
a true gamer you are not
Sorry to break this to you, but human hearing is (mostly) nondirectional.Originally posted by Sava
you need good sound to hear footsteps in counterstrike
so you can tell where they are
Go into a patch of woods in the summer. See if you can find where the closest cicada is by hearing alone.
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sorry to break this to you, but CS is not real life
Welcome to the real world UR...positional audio works, that's why we have two ears.Originally posted by Urban Ranger
Sorry to break this to you, but human hearing is (mostly) nondirectional.
At least those of us with capable brains can process the signals and figure out a position, based on how loud the sound is in one ear compared to the other.
I don't know about you, but if someone's walking up behind me I can hear that. In regular stereo sound, I can't tell if they're behind or infront of me.
"The issue is there are still many people out there that use religion as a crutch for bigotry and hate. Like Ben."
Ben Kenobi: "That means I'm doing something right. "
Originally posted by Sava
BOOM HEADSHOT!
I can agree with that.Originally posted by Kuciwalker
sorry to break this to you, but CS is not real life
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You need to actually look at literature.Originally posted by Asher
At least those of us with capable brains can process the signals and figure out a position, based on how loud the sound is in one ear compared to the other.
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What literature. He's right.
There I said it. Asher is right.
Hm, actual research?Originally posted by Dis
What literature.
Human hearing is only very vaguely directional. Under almost ideal conditions you can tell in which general direction is the sound source, most of the time you can't.
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Totally agree, but it depends on the game (I loved the sound in the old X-Com).Originally posted by Urban Ranger
Sound is even less important than graphics in games, while graphics is less important than gameplay.
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haha, you guys are freakin' deaf. It's easy to tell if something is in front of you are behind you.
Yes pinpointing exact position is near impossible. But anyone can tell if something is in front of them or behind them. Though in some environments, echoes will throw that off. But if there is no echo, you should have no problem.
I can tell to within 10 degrees where a sound is coming from, generally.
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