I hear static when I turret

RacingPain · Post by **RacingPain** » Wed Jul 05, 2006 12:09 am

i have a weird proble, its simple but so annoying, i got a new computer with a SB X-Fi sound card

now i have a turrets thats sounds psychedelic, lots of glitch and sounds looks like is on off on off very fast all time, i don't turret anymore because of that it hurts as bad a the boundary or overload sector alarm

please help be get back in that turret seat without ears bleeding

Post by **Tigereye** » Wed Jul 05, 2006 1:09 am

Welcome to the club.

Your issue is covered in the knowledgebase: http://www.freeallegiance.org/knowledgebase/entry/4/26/

--TE

Paranova · Post by **Paranova** » Wed Jul 05, 2006 2:49 am

I've got the same card, and the same problem. Mine is more distorted then static and personally it doesn't really bother me so i've not tried to fix it, but the wierd thing is that for me when the ship I am turreting in either stops or moves slowly the sound is fine.

RacingPain · Post by **RacingPain** » Thu Jul 06, 2006 12:15 am

for me its i move i suffer, if i say still its all okay, but move and its torture for ears, do other players ear it when it happen to us

HX TE

okay static dont meean its jammed or dont move, it's the sound ...

ill check it attentively and try to resolve this.

10 minutes later

Racing on ice here man, if im correct about what ive seen in my computer specs i may be the first lol, kidding i just want to double check to avoid potential problems i'm not aware of

i saw this

according to this
QUOTE The thing is, Windows XP shoves everything it can get away with into IRQ 16-23. Unfortunately Sound Blaster cards do not like being up there for some reason, and Allegiance (aka: finder of all hardware bugs) craps out when you turret.[/quote]Sound Blaster cards do not like being up there... does this means that mine in the 19th slot as a Creative SB X-Fi is the the problem

is it possible to simply change the irq channel to a lower one empty?.
is it wotrh to try before doing it the hard way?, i have 15 on irqs alredy i have a bad feeling about being on the edge at 15/16

is it safe anyway?
QUOTE executing these steps (yet!), that should not give you a false sense of security!![/quote]

looks like the higway to hell fo me now, i wait for an anwser before doing something stupid that could have been avoid

GreyVulpine · Post by **GreyVulpine** » Thu Jul 06, 2006 2:20 am

Alright, well, I had the same problem. Tiger's fix helped me immensely. It's ONLY for the tech-savvy, to pursue this route.

I did the same steps, and by using the BIOS, I could push the sound blaster down to a lower slot. How?

I went into my BIOS, and in there, I had an option to 'reserve' an IRQ slot. By reserving the IRQ slot that my Sound Blaster Audigy was in, I could force the SB off that IRQ. Where it ended up, was all determined by chance. I had to do it a few times to force it to IRQ 11.

This isn't a complete fix, I still get launch from base crashes occasionally, but it helped cut down the frequency.

-GreyVulpine

mdvalley · Post by **mdvalley** » Thu Jul 06, 2006 2:22 pm

The BIOS method (or through the device manager) is the best way of getting it down to the lower 16.

Essentially what the hard way does is change your Windows kernel to one that doesn’t support the higher IRQs. It’s worth noting that the hard way also disables the use of multiple processors and hyperthreading (if you have a P4). It is possible to change it back, but the method of doing that is even more involved (and kinda dangerous if you don’t know what you’re doing).

Or you can wait for FAZ r2, which will use DirectSound 8, which will work on newer cards in the higher IRQs. So test the beta and report any problems (flux seems to have issues with the new sound) so we can get it out the door.

RacingPain · Post by **RacingPain** » Thu Jul 06, 2006 10:46 pm

Greyvulpine
QUOTE This isn't a complete fix, I still get launch from base crashes occasionally[/quote]i dont have that problem will i if i do what you did?

mdvalley
QUOTE It’s worth noting that the hard way also disables the use of multiple processors and hyperthreading (if you have a P4)[/quote]

my computer is a fully loaded all upgrades in 3.2 gig dual core XPS 600 -GeForce 7900GTX -and the 16 mb SB XF-i
one month old and i dont want to mess things in it

Can i just kill the .wav or ogg turret move/action sound?

Post by **Tigereye** » Fri Jul 07, 2006 2:58 am

RacingPain wrote:QUOTE (RacingPain @ Jul 6 2006, 06:46 PM) Can i just kill the .wav or ogg turret move/action sound?

You can, but unfortunately it will have no effect

--TE

strike700 · Post by **strike700** » Fri Jul 07, 2006 8:19 pm

Just in case (Since I know english is not your first language) Tiger means that turreting will have no sound effects, instead of meaning that deleting the wav will not change anything.

Post by **Tigereye** » Fri Jul 07, 2006 11:21 pm

right.

Deleting the turret swivel wav and the turret fire wav will make your turreting experience silent, but you will still experience the same crashes and stuttering as you would with the sounds in-place.

Removing the .wav files does nothing to solve the crashing/stuttering issue.

--TE