Skipping sound

[DoubleBlade]

I have a problem with the sound skipping during any movies, from the 2k Games screen at the very first, to the opening movie, and all wonder movies. How do I fix this?

[alva]

System specs?

[thesandtiger]

Do you have integrated sound, by chance? If so, who's the maker?

[Civaphile]

I'm experiencing the same sound skipping issue.

When the Wonder Movies play, the sound for the movie skips every 1-2 seconds, very similar to listening to a CD with a bad scratch on it.

I'm at a loss on where the issue may resides.

My system specs are:

P4 2.4GHz (533FSB)
1GB PC2700 DDR RAM
80GB Maxtor HDD
ASUS Nvidia GeForce 6800 Ultra (256MB)
SoundBlaster Audigy 2 ZS Gamer

All the drivers are recent since last month.

Has anyone found any workarounds or will this need to be resolved by a Civ IV patch?

[baclips6]

I too get the skipping on wonder movies.

My specs:

P4 2.8GHz
2GB PC3200 DDR RAM
160GB Maxtor HDD
BFG GeForce 6800 latest 81.85 drivers and DIVX codecs
SoundBlaster Audigy 2 ZS Platinum

[Tyrole]

Are any of you with the sound skipping problem running a temperature monitoring software such as "MSI PC Alert"?

[iratheous]

I have the same problem with skipping sound occurring during Wonder Cutscenes.

I use:
Intel 2.8ghz /w Intel Mobo
Win XP
Integrated Sound (SoundMAX Digital Audio Drivers)
Raedon 9800
1gig Ram

Everything other than the Skipping Wonder music is running fine.

[Markgraf]

When the Wonder Movies play, the sound for the movie skips every 1-2 seconds, very similar to listening to a CD with a bad scratch on it.

I had this issue as well. What I did was to change my specific sound driver selection to "stereo" and the Wonder movies played just fine. Worth a shot as it solved not only the Wonder movie issue, but seemingly the lack of volume control I was having with other sound driver selections.

[Civaphile]

The only thing of mention for the temperature monitoring question is that I have ASUS' overclocking/Temperature Monitoring utility install, which came with my video card.

I can't imagine it causing issues now, since I've had it installed with the driver software for over a year now. I haven't had any compatibility issues with other PC games.

(FYI...I'm only using it for temperature and fan monitoring, I'm not overclocking the video card)

[Civaphile]

Originally posted by Markgraf


I had this issue as well. What I did was to change my specific sound driver selection to "stereo" and the Wonder movies played just fine. Worth a shot as it solved not only the Wonder movie issue, but seemingly the lack of volume control I was having with other sound driver selections.

Thanks for the suggestion. I'll try that out tonight when I get home from work.

I'll make sure to post tomorrow if this solution works for me as well.

Thanks again!

[Acemo]

It did not work for me, my sounds skips during wonder movies no matter which one I pick. I also disabled voice chatting and that had no effect.
My motherboard had onboard sound, which I am not using, but it is still an option for civ. I cant try it now, will try it later.
soundblaster audigy platinum, I think, I will check for new drivers, but I am pretty sure they are up to date.

[Stromprophet]

Originally posted by Markgraf


I had this issue as well. What I did was to change my specific sound driver selection to "stereo" and the Wonder movies played just fine. Worth a shot as it solved not only the Wonder movie issue, but seemingly the lack of volume control I was having with other sound driver selections.

Where is this at specifically? Under the advanced settings for speakers?

I have Reltek AC97 Audio and it does the same thing. Currently I have my speakers set to "desktop speakers" they are mounted to my screen actually. Should I change that then?

[Tyrole]

Are any of you with skipping sound also experiencing extremely laggy gameplay (framerates maxing out around 10) and delayed response from keyboard and mouse?

[iratheous]

Not me.

[Markgraf]

Where is this at specifically? Under the advanced settings for speakers?

Yes, I think that's where it's at. Wherever all the speaker configuration settings are (EAX, EAX2, etc.) under Audio Options. I was getting really choppy sound under most of the settings I tried, until I selected "stereo" and my Wonder movies ran smooth as silk, and I got volume control back too.