Sound problems

[BenSisko]

I've been flying Orbiter 030303 and with your sound add on for a year. Just upgraded my computer
to a 1 Gig P3 with 512 Mb RAM Nvidia GeForce2Go video with 32 Mb RAM. I get garbled sound in DG
II, default DG, and Atlantis landing  scenarios running Orbiter 031217. Framerate never drops
below 15 fps even with particle system. any suggestions?  

Ben Sisko

[DanSteph]

Orbiter don't share well the processor, especially when
the FPS are low (15 is very low for orbiter I don't go under 35
and I'm usually at 60-80)

I don't have a solution sorry, when I run Orbiter all
my background task almost stop wich never happen
with any other program

You may  perhaps try another sound driver ?

15 seem VERY low to me even on a geforce2
wich resolution do you use ?

Dan

[BenSisko]

My resolution is 1600x1200 and I don't run anything else whei I have Orbiter running. It's funny, I
didn't have this problem with my other laptop. It had an ATI video card with only 8 Mb. The audio
was fine but the framerate would drop to 8 during docking or with the particle sysem (1024x768).

[BenSisko]

I just noticed an Orbitersound log entry only in Orbiter 031217:
Orbiter Sound Log Started
*****************************

--------------------------------------
ERR01= Vessel->ConnectToOrbiterSoundDLL: Unable to connect to OrbiterSound.dll

Any suggestion?

Ben

[DanSteph]

I you ear sound.. no suggestion !
that may be an old message you can delete the
orbitersoundlog.txt file it will recreate if
any new things happen. ( I must add date one time)

Dan

[glObalist]

I also experience this kinda sound problem after upgrading my system and switching to WinXP. I
was able to find the culprit though - it is the Detonators series 4x.xx and above drivers that
suddenly started to dislike my new computer running OrbiterSound.  Everything was OK on my
good ol Celeron, but now I get the gorbling/stuttering whatever of OrbiterSound, so I ended up
with 31.80 (or something) Detonators installed as they do not make the sound gorble. But alas,
they give me only 3 FPS in the Dragonfly panels view. The latest 51.06 drivers, on the other hand,
give me 37 FPS no probs, but then, they **** up the sound. Go figure:|

If this "downdating" of your video driver dont work, try changing the PCI slot of your sound card -
it's said to help some people out, but didn't do me:(

But, and this goes to Dan, I suspect there must have been a very specific, sound-resources
handling difference/change in the code between the 3x.xx and 4x.xx Detonators, what do you
think? Well, in case you were into video drivers, could you check this ffor me? ...

[me]

you have a 512 mega byte video card?!?!?! 8o are am I misunderstanding you?

[glObalist]

Now where did I say that? I'm not even sure such cards exist.
I keep my trusty Geforce2 MX.

[Aqua]

I think he got confused by this part "512 Mb RAM Nvidia GeForce2Go video with 32 Mb RAM"

[me]

oh...............

[glObalist]

Alright, I think I've resolved this sound issue sort of. Now I can use the latest Detonators (=good
FPS) and get no crackling. How?  Just uninstalled my SoundBlaster Live and activated the on-board
Realtek AC94 soundcard. Looks like it was my Gigabyte GA7N400 Pro2 motherboard (nForce2
chipset) not liking the SoundBlaster in combination with the latest video drivers. Totally
weird

[DanSteph]

mhhhh I optimised OrbiterSound we'll see if the problem is *less*
noticeable in the next version.

Dan

[glObalist]

BTW, thanks for paying so much attention to your customers' feedback.

BTW2, I wonder how on Earth you manage to do all this PLUS your job in the real world...  8o

[DanSteph]

I don't sleep

Dan

[Krytom]