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Sound issues in SMAC
Love the game... it worked fine until I upgraded to XP. Now the sound is choppy for the wonder descriptions and other leader descriptions. Soundblaster PCI512, Geforce2MX/400. I upgraded my sound drivers, to no avail, and added the EAX=0 to the .ini file.
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Welcome to NT/W2K/XP.
I get a nice echo in SMAC, it gives some of the tech discoveries an interesting eerie quality.
Maybe a different version (and not necessarily the newest) of the drivers will work better - what about DirectX drivers?
If nothing else, your machine will
you for it and reward you by staying up more.
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DirectX drivers are current... XP ships with 8.1
It's still playable... it isn't like the speakers are shrieking at full volume every time there's a tech advance. It's just a little annoying scratchy echo. In fact, I'd say that the game is more playable in this state than Civ3 is in general
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My Solution
Hey,
Just wanted to post this information. I spoke with EA tech support, and they instructed me to turn down hardware acceleration for DirectX sound... from inside the DXDIAG tool. I turned it down to 'basic' and it works flawlessly. It's like I'm playing it for the first time again Hope this info is useful for other people.
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