Odd sound problem

[MrEricSir]

Ever since I reinstalled today, I've had some issues with the sound. The flare lighting sound is very low quality, and when a fire arrow explodes it makes a farting sound (I'm serious.) Does anyone know what could be causing this?

[LeatherMan]

Directsound is disabled by default. Re-enable Directsound and see if it helps (open ThAux.ini and change the line UseDirectsound=False to True).

[MrEricSir]

I've now tried the game both with and without DirectSound, and I can safely say that it makes no difference on my machine.

Oh well, it's a bit easier to play without those noisy explosions anyhow.

[Sneaky]

Try going to the options in thievery and click on preferences. On the audio tab there is a box with a drop down menu that says "sound quality". Make sure it is set to high.

[MrEricSir]

Try going to the options in thievery and click on preferences. On the audio tab there is a box with a drop down menu that says "sound quality". Make sure it is set to high.

It is. I also changed the sampling rate to 44.1 khz or whatever (instead of 22 khz by default.)

[LeatherMan]

Ever since I reinstalled today, I've had some issues with the sound.

Is this a reinstallation of UT, UT and Thievery, or just Thievery? If you reinstalled UT, did you reinstall the v436 patch?

In the sound options, have you selected "Use Hardware Sound" and/or "Use Surround Sound"? On only one of my two WinME systems, selecting "Use Hardware Sound" causes odd sound behavior (both have SBLive sound cards using the same drivers). De-selecting "Use Hardware Sound" fixed the problems and I haven't noticed any reduction in sound quality (you have to restart Thievery for the change to take effect).

[MrEricSir]

Ever since I reinstalled today, I've had some issues with the sound.

Is this a reinstallation of UT, UT and Thievery, or just Thievery? If you reinstalled UT, did you reinstall the v436 patch?

In the sound options, have you selected "Use Hardware Sound" and/or "Use Surround Sound"? On only one of my two WinME systems, selecting "Use Hardware Sound" causes odd sound behavior (both have SBLive sound cards using the same drivers). De-selecting "Use Hardware Sound" fixed the problems and I haven't noticed any reduction in sound quality (you have to restart Thievery for the change to take effect).

I reinstalled both UT and TUT, and I patched it up to 436 and then the OpenGL and IP patches on top of that. I don't have an SBLive, and I don't have either the surround or the hardware sound boxes checked.

[Plumsie_taker]

OK, this might be of no use but...
On my PC I have an AC'97 sound card that makes all the sounds go awful (fart sounding explosions apply there too) but if I go into sound options and change the sound card to "Game compatible device" EVRYTHING sound-related is fixed.

Hope that's of some help

PT

[LaughingRat]

Hey, uh, PT? It's great that you're being helpful, but you're also about 3 months late....

[Plumsie_taker]

LMAO, yeh... maybe the poor bugger still had the sound prob.. i dunno

Perhaps others seeking advice about odd sound probs will now be gifted with my great advice...

Or maybe I should stick to "helping" in more recent forums.

Anyway, if you were falling off a massive building and help didn't comefor three months you wouldn't complain... oh wait... that would be because... ah