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Many thanks for trying Have found some sort of solution (for basic at least) - I turn off all hardware acceleration ion the sound properties on Control Panel. But it doesn't sound great for anything else. Is there any way I can either only do this for Civ 4 or get Civ 4 to work normally? Weird...

Reinstalled old game on brand new PC - same problem at basic Civ 4 level. There are similar problems mentioned here http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=233030 but no solution that works. Maybe I give up.

Headset works perfectly for everything else and USED to be fine here. Ill try and uninstall reinstall.

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Uninstalled /reinstalled BTS thru Steam. Reinstalled dx9 over old (cant uninstall without massive effort IIRC.) Still no joy. Have unchecked WHQL box as I read somehere it can slow things. The horrendous DXdiag file is attached.

A little more info. Buzzing occurs OVER sounds which can be heard in the background. By turning audio off I assume you mean turning master volume down as I cant see a single kill audio command. No sound problems on other programs. Realtek AC97 MB using Plantronic headphones (I don't have...

When I turn audio off everything goes quiet! But i cant play it silently.

Don't know if checking box enables or disables it. Either way no joy.

Had many happy hours playing BTS (downloaded from Steam on top of vanilla C4). Haven't played for a bit but think Steam installed a patch. Now every time I load BTS i get a horrible buzzing noise which makes game unplayable. I've looked through forums but haven't found same problem. Any ideas...

Have played BTS happily on Steam for some time. Came back to the game after having not played for a while and discovered that it has become unplayable. The game now has a horrible scratchy sound which I can only eliminate by turning off the sound completely. Elsewhere in the forums turning down...