any solutions to Wonder movie audio stuttering?

[solar28]

Just an SOS -- does anybody have an idea how to fix the audio stuttering duriing wonders? I've looked around, seen other threads, been to Take2 support site, can't find anything.

Happens during Wonder movies, otherwise fine. Audio skips in and out bad enought to ruin movie. Seen some other threads, no solutions. Any hope?

I have an SB Audigy 2. Been to Creative web site, all drivers up to date, no way to solve?

Is this just a pretty weak bug in the game? Wonder movies are pretty important -- any reason why they would be broken for a SB Audigy 2 owner?

 

[Asterothe]

How's your graphics card?

 

[bshock727]

Most likely your video card. The movies stuttered for me as well when I had to play the game on an old Geforce 2 due to the ATI problem. Once they fixed it, I was able to play stutter free on my better card.

 

[ChiefBatman]

stutter for me with a 6800 Ultra (and 1GB of RAM with a Athlon64 3500+ processor), meh after the first game I turned off the movies heh.

 

[Poisos]

I had the same problem. My first movie (founding of Hinduism) ran well - as far as I can remember. All others had little audio skippings in a regular pattern - annoyingly. First I though it was a problem with EAX support, but switching back to stereo didn't help (didn't get worse either). I've got a SoundBlaster Audigy Player by the way and everything else seems to run smooth, including graphics.

I had an idea today. When I player Command & Conquer Red Alert 2 I also had massive sound problems with movies. It help to actually REDUCE the level of sound hardware accelleration. I will try this when I'm back home again and post my results if I remember to do so . The setup for this can be found in "Sound and Audiodevices" in the windows system setup menu (I use a german windows version here, so I'm barely able to give you a better hint). - Remember ... its just a guess!

 

[Xeos]

I had the same problem with the voices on Freelancer at one point, and turning down sound acceleration one notch fixed it.

 

[Sadan01]

Besides turning down the sound acceleration (good option to try), I asked this question on Wednesday and never got an answer (and I dont have Civ yet - I have to wait until next week - so I cannot test)... Do the Civ wonder/other movies play via the BINK video player? In other words, are they in the same format as they were for Civ3?

If they are, you can download the BINK Video tools and do some testing... It may be a problem related to the BINK video playback on the system. I am only guessing due to as I mentioned above, I cannot test myself so it makes it extremely difficult to know for certain if this is the case or has something to do with it.

If anyone can provide this info, it would help a lot.

 

[ou1975]

I updated my ATI drivers to the latest omega version, and I put all graphics settings at medium and the problem went away for me.

 

[spiralx]

I noticed a bunch of movies installed with .bik extensions, so I guess that'd be BINK format?

 

[Genghis069]

I'm a bit unhappy that the opening movie continues to stutter and in-game movies occasionally freeze my computer despite up to date drivers and lowering the graphics settings. I realize my computer is on the fringe, but certainly not low quality.

AMD 1800+ Athlon
512 MB PC2700
64 MB GeForce3 Ti200 Siluro
Creative SB Audigy LS

The game otherwise runs okay, but not with the speed I'm used to with past Civ's, even when my computer was more out of date.

Games like Rome - Total War and Rise of Nations run perfectly.

 

[Sadan01]

I noticed a bunch of movies installed with .bik extensions, so I guess that'd be BINK format?

Thanks mate They would be BINK videos. Ok, for those that want to test, go to the following site and download RAD Video Tools: direct link.

Install the program and with some playing around, you'll be able to open those .bik files and see if they play without stuttering.

 

[Zombieboy]

Thanks mate They would be BINK videos. Ok, for those that want to test, go to the following site and download RAD Video Tools: direct link.

Install the program and with some playing around, you'll be able to open those .bik files and see if they play without stuttering.

Ok, I tried that, and using the Radgames program ran some wonder movies, and they seem to run smoothly, even though in game they stutter.

I also am having a major issue with graphical lag.

 

[solar28]

Thanks for the feedback. Looks like a very common problem. I've got the latest sound drivers as well. My video is 6800. I just downloaded the latest drivers from NVidia 81.xx see if that helps (though I think it's an audio problem). I'm also going to try switching to Miles Fast 2D -- though I have tried every audio option in the in game menu (save game right before Pyramid movie to test).

 

[Double Blade]

I posted this problem in another topic and someone told me to google Omega Drivers and download them. I don't remember right off who it was. Anyway, that's what I did and it helped the stuttering sound problem.

 

[solar28]

No luck still. I've tried everything (short of using Omega drivers). The latest there is 66.xx which won't work for Battlefield2, Quake4. About ready to wait for the patch . . .

 

[nextgenciver]

mine shudders too. I have a pretty old vidio card so i think thats the problem.

 

[FullyCompletely]

What exactly are these "omega drivers"? Fish oils for my video card? I googled it and found the site but I hesitate to download the unfamiliar.

 

[Kolyana]

I'm using an NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GT and 1gig of RAM (3200 I think) ... and I'm getting this stuttering also.

Are Omega drivers for this card as well? Or should I be looking at something else.

 

[dra21]

All my audio stutter problems went away soon as I heard about the Radeon video card fix and did that and put back in my Radeon, then all sound problems went away, the sound problems were on my backup Geforce Ti 200 card.

 

[Aeson]

Running the game in windowed mode works for some people.