Edgasm1 Posted January 18, 2002 Share Posted January 18, 2002 I have Galactic Battlegrounds installed in my games folder on my c: drive. I can hear the music, sounds etc.. in the main menu, but during game play i only get intermittent bursts of sound. Water running, forest noises etc.. I can't hear anymusic, fire fighting. The game is pretty much dead silent. This is very annoying to me and somewhat boring. My sound card is working fine, audio cables are in check, all the wave files are unpacked etc.... I am running the game on a 233 mhz comp, nvidia geforce2 (32mb ram) agp video card overclocked to 225 mhz graphic clock and 187 mhz memory clock using speedrunner utility. Running 288 mb of system board ram. To its seems that maybe my processor speed is too slowm diablo I and Diablo II work perfectly with no lag at all in video or sound. I know that the minimum system requirements are 300 mhz, but there is no lag what so-ever. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chessack Posted January 18, 2002 Share Posted January 18, 2002 Well, first off, if you are below the minimum system requirements, all bets are off. You never know what will work and what won't. So you might be out of luck. However, if it's a sound problem, then what video card you have should be irrelevent. It's a sound board problem. Try doing a Windows Update and checking to see if it wants you to install new sound card drivers. If so, update them. If not, check you sound card vendor's website for new drivers (the Windows Update site usually is crappy at keeping this up to date). They might have new drivers (I know mine did, and I just bought the darn thing 4 months earlier). Also, you might want to go in and do a directsound test to see if the directX sound drivers are working right in Windows itself. If not, your sound will be wrong in GB. May the Force be with you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Influenza Posted January 18, 2002 Share Posted January 18, 2002 Most of the sound effects in SWGB are MP3 files, which take quite a bit of processor power to decode and play. That's probably the root of your problem. Updating your sound drivers *might* help, but the only sure-fire solution would be to upgrade that processor. Sorry . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
falconeer999 Posted January 18, 2002 Share Posted January 18, 2002 My old 233 mhz computer could run MP3 files but nothing else while it was doing it. That could explain a bit why you're having problems. Check out http://www.pricewatch.com and get yourself a new motherboard/cpu combo to install. Spending $2-300 will bring you into a whole new world... Your video card is faster than your cpu... that's just not right Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
captain_drake Posted January 18, 2002 Share Posted January 18, 2002 my comp preety much sucks in everyway but i never had probs with it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clefo Posted January 20, 2002 Share Posted January 20, 2002 Strange... I could run lots and lots of MP3's on my old 166 comp.. AND I could do all sorts of other stuff... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest IdLe_WorkeR Posted January 22, 2002 Share Posted January 22, 2002 Remember that the game is running a number of other processes beside sound decoding that require CPU time. All in all, it amazes me that it runs at all on a 233mhz machine. Face it, it's new computer time. Save that video board, it's still ok, replace everything else. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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