Recent content by lewk

I assume you have actually played long enough to get into the eras where the music starts playing?

My pleasure :) Right then. where's them bloody mongols,they gonna get a chinese kickin'.

Also, check the other thread, as it seems if you can "lock" your system sample rate (maybe in the sound card control panel) you don't have to use a media player at all :goodjob:

Ah! Excellent! You've inadvertantly solved my own audio problem! I never noticed before that it drops my samplerate down to 8000. I simply hit the "samplerate locked" button on my soundcard control panel, and all is fixed. Trouble is, I had it unlocked as I do a lot of audio work in different...

Nor me, someone wayyyy back when the game came out posted something similar. It just seems to be an issue with certain cards, or something. I don't know, it's tres weird! The game seems to affect the whole sound system, because if you load the game normally, and alt-tab out of the game, and...

I too have a problem which sounds liek it might be the same thing. All sound is sort of "muffled". The way I get around it is by loading a media player, play any song then pause it. Keep the media player open, and paused, and then run civ IV. This makes all the sound clear as a bell. See if...

EDIT: I fixed this by running my media player, playing then pausing an MP3, and running the game. Interesting little glitch! Hi all, I've looked through the first 11 pages or so to see if anyone else has this problem. It's not a game breaker, and it may not even be a problem as such, but...