On Wed, 2005-08-31 at 16:06 -0400, Rudolph Pienaar wrote: > On Wednesday 31 August 2005 14:55, Anubis wrote: > > Seriously? > > Yes - seriously. At least for me on this box. R3000Z with 1GB, 1920x1600 > display, 64MB GeForce Go. Perhaps the NVidia driver under XP behaved > differently on this hardware (?) - although I guess that's unlikely. Maybe I > should have tried a different driver (which I think I did)? > > I just had terrible choppy sound that only went away when I dialed all the > video options down to their minimums. I suspect some DMA conflict perhaps? > The *video* seemed fine at higher resolutions - just the sound ruined it all. > I tried different sound drivers, I even went so far as to buy an external USB > sound card - no joy. Same choppy sound no matter what. Come to think of it, I > got the same sound issues with EA Games "Return of the King". > > Given all this, I was not at all expecting Cedega to work, so I was (quite > pleasantly) surprised when not only did it work, but it resulted in a > measurably better playing experience.
A lot of people had choppy sound problems in HL-2. I've read theories on why but I don't know if anyone ever found out the reason for sure. Valve probably screwed up the DirectSound programming somewhere. I know that the problem went away a month or two after release. -- Zan Lynx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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