Sound Crackles in game

something wrong with the sound that creates crackling

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After entering the game the sound crackles in the speakers instead of playing clearly. Any thoughts on how to correct this?
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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top
i cant seem to find the answer Blair gave someone else a day ago.

But he said you should try and update your sound drivers or make sure the sound hardware acceleration is set properly in diretx.

You can also try changing the user.setting

find SoundUseHardware FALSE

change to TRUE

can be found here

Vista:
C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Ironclad Games\Sins of a Solar Empire\setting\

XP:
C:\Documents and Settings\username\Local Settings\Application Data\Ironclad Games\Sins of a Solar Empire\setting\
Reply #2 from Sins Forums Top
This was happening to me, I found out that it was because I didn't have my laptop plugged in. I got it hooked up to the monitor, had the keyboard plugged in, the mouse in, the headphones ready to go... but I forgot to plug in the power brick. So the game was either running in battery-saver mode or some sort of lower-power mode. It was rather unfortunate when I ran out of power as the host and ruined the game for everyone.

However, the sort of... skipping, audio went away when I got plugged the laptop into the wall. I was wondering why the audio was doing that before it crashed.

If you arn't using a laptop, maybe your getting low on memory while the game is running or something?
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