Sound problems

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Hey hey.

Well as the title sais I got a sound problem. I can hear the music and effects but the sound snap, crackles and pops while i play. It is so annoying I just have to mute it. My sounddriver is updated, and works great outside the game.

Soundcard I am using isn't great, Sigmatel High Def Audio CODEC is what i use to run it. Oh, i have updated the driver, and also I am in contact with the provider

Any ideas?
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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top
This is commonly caused by having bloom on or multisampling values too high. Try turning bloom off first, and then reducing the other settings.
Reply #2 from Sins Forums Top
hi blair noob question multisampling what are those??
i got same problem
Elemental: Reforged
Reply #3 from Sins Forums Top
Multisampling is in options->video settings. Bloom is in options->effects
Reply #5 from Sins Forums Top
Interesting. I turned off the bloom for other reasons and oddly enough I did notice a drop in the cracking sounds. I will turn down the multisampling for my next game.
Reply #7 from Sins Forums Top
hi blair i think my problem is different i even get crack sound in main menu and lobby
i turned down my cpu volume it helped a little
i had the same problem with beta i just ( i got it with hardware and software)
turn hardware sound on and off and it reset the sound and it worked fine for a half hour then it cracks up again and i did the same thing but in full version i cannot do that can i?? please help me its no fun playing with crack sound
my information
sound blaster live 5.1 latest drivers from windows update provided i think
thx and greetz emperorredlab
Reply #8 from Sins Forums Top
If you have a laptop with an nvidia card this information may help your situation. It appears nvidia barely supports laptop cards (especially older ones as I have a GeForce Go 7300). Anyway, this laptopvideo2go site really helped me out. At first I was using Vista's control panel update button to check the Internet to see if I had the latest video driver; each time Vista said I was up to date so I figured I was--big mistake as the driver was dated 2006 (I'm assuming Vista thought I was up to date since nvidia has put out no driver updates for my card for 2 years). After going through the above mentioned site, now I have a driver from Feb/08 and my static issues are history.

You need to know your operating system (32-bit or 64-bit) and the rest is explained on the site. I had awful crackling speakers and was about ready to give up but this site really did the trick. You need to have some faith in them since you have to bypass a few Vista warnings but I took the leap and it paid off.


http://www.laptopvideo2go.com/forum/index.php?showuser=43

Click on the "quickstart guide" to help explain the process.

Best of luck--I know I was pulling my hair out until today because of my sound issues and I bought this game weeks ago.

Cheers,

Swansea