Anyone else getting choppy sound on videos? (eg for wonders)

[phildo77]

Anyone else getting choppy sound for videos like when you build wonders? I've got a AMD 2700+, GF6600 GT, 1GB RAM, Audigy 1 Platinum (in 5.1 mode). Just wondering if I'm alone and if not is there a solution?

 

[Melendwyr]

Yes! Yes, I have similar problems. Unfortunately, I have no solution.

 

[FrantzX]

Run dxdiag.exe. Go to the sound tab and set sound hardware acceleration to off.

 

[Talamane]

Turning off hardware accel, however, is not really a fix. I will try it but AOE3 (which has a rep for choppiness) doesnt do this.

I dont know what to think. Civ4's install did not ask me to update DirectX. I wonder if that may have something to do with it.

 

[XionNova]

I have the same problem. I did, indeed, update to DX9c.

AMD Athlon 64 3200+
GeForce 6600GT
2GB DDRRAM
Audigy 2 ZS

I'll update drivers tommorow.. see where that gets me.

 

[phr0ze]

Umm... I didn't have it at first, but after a few hours the vids were getting choppy sound.

 

[dc82]

i'm using my friend's comp 'cuz mine is shot (great timing, huh?) but it crashes everytime a wonder movie loads.

 

[stormlifter]

I had that same problem... I took of antialiasing and the problem desolved.

To bad I crash to desktop after a few minutes of playing...

 

[Jh00]

I once experienced similar problems in another game (don't remember the name), and after much research, I found out that there was something related to the codec pack I was using.

I uninstalled my codec pack and installed another one and voilá! But I can't tell which one you should get, I guess you will have to test them out.

 

[Sadan01]

Is Civ4 in any way using BINK for the video playback/display?

I dont have Civ4 yet - have to wait until next week so I cannot test at the moment, even tho I want to PLAYYYYYYY!

 

[donkeyimage]

If I get it for the intro movie, will it be choppy for the wonders? What about the science guy from star trek?

 

[Hawk2112]

I had some choppiness as well, and when I looked at my HD with Diskkeeper, Civ IV basically installed itself all over the place on my drive. Defragged it, and the problems went away.

Computer

Athlon XP 2600 (Barton)
1 gig Dual Channel RAM
nVida 6600 256mb
Soundblaster Audigy Gamer

 

[The Beastmaster]

Only with the startup movie, the one that you get each time you first load up the game from your desktop. Otherwise no movie problems so far (knock on wood)