Audio half speed, movements slow

[jdenman]

Specs:
OS: XP SP2
CPU: 3GHz P4
Physical Memory: 1GB
Page file: C: 2-50MB, D: 1536-3072MB

Visited windowsupdate but no updates needed. Installed Civ4, installed DirectX from CD, started Civ 4. The intro movie played fine, good video and audio. Got to main menu, and got patch from within Civ4, restarted Civ4. Started a new game - and the audio is extreamly quiet - I have to crank my volume (not windows volume - external hardware control) up to 70% to hear anything...and there's a high-pitch whine (which makes the audio unbearable).

Whenever someone says something in the game, it sounds like it's half speed - slow and low pitch. Also, if I Alt-Tab out and play a music CD in Windows Media Player, it also is half speed - slow and low pitch.

Only thing I can figure is that my sound driver isn't digitally signed. It's worked for everything else, and the latest drivers (Dell website) aren't signed either.

What gives?? Anyone else having this issue?

 

[Neon Deon]

Specs:
OS: XP SP2
CPU: 3GHz P4
Physical Memory: 1GB
Page file: C: 2-50MB, D: 1536-3072MB

Visited windowsupdate but no updates needed. Installed Civ4, installed DirectX from CD, started Civ 4. The intro movie played fine, good video and audio. Got to main menu, and got patch from within Civ4, restarted Civ4. Started a new game - and the audio is extreamly quiet - I have to crank my volume (not windows volume - external hardware control) up to 70% to hear anything...and there's a high-pitch whine (which makes the audio unbearable).

Whenever someone says something in the game, it sounds like it's half speed - slow and low pitch. Also, if I Alt-Tab out and play a music CD in Windows Media Player, it also is half speed - slow and low pitch.

Only thing I can figure is that my sound driver isn't digitally signed. It's worked for everything else, and the latest drivers (Dell website) aren't signed either.

What gives?? Anyone else having this issue?

Try and by pass the onboard sound by using vdmsound.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/vdmsound

Download 2.0.4 and install

right click on civiv shortcut and select run with vdmsound

 

[jdenman]

Thanks for the tip. I recovered some sounds, but the voices are still the same, and there's still a high-pitch whine (still unbearable).

Other suggestions?

 

[Neon Deon]

Thanks for the tip. I recovered some sounds, but the voices are still the same, and there's still a high-pitch whine (still unbearable).

Other suggestions?

remove the sound alltoghether thru device manager.

reboot in safe mode and load the sound driver manually

go to Nvidia web site and find the latest sound driver for the chip on your motherboard first.

Just remember where you put it so you can manually enter it.

If it does not work that way, then use VDMSound again.

If that is still fracked, then paste up ur irq settings in the forum.

 

[jdenman]

remove the sound alltoghether thru device manager.

reboot in safe mode and load the sound driver manually

go to Nvidia web site and find the latest sound driver for the chip on your motherboard first.

Just remember where you put it so you can manually enter it.

If it does not work that way, then use VDMSound again.

If that is still fracked, then paste up ur irq settings in the forum.

Perhaps I'm clueless...but why do I want to use an nVidia driver for my sound? Wouldn't I want to install the sound driver from the motherboard manuf?

 

[Neon Deon]

ok location for dell driver.

http://support.dell.com/support/dow...0&typecnt=1&vercnt=1&formatcnt=1&fileid=70114

 

[jdenman]

Awesome - that worked perfectly.

1 down, 1 to go...adjusting to get a higher FPS.

Is there a way to speed this thing up, without sacrificing visual effects/quality? I am aware of the .ini file (not familiar, just aware), and also a script I saw to disable all services in XP.

I'm not sure how the FPS is so low when we've got 1GB of RAM, and 1.5 to 3 times more space for the page file.

 

[Neon Deon]

Awesome - that worked perfectly.

1 down, 1 to go...adjusting to get a higher FPS.

Is there a way to speed this thing up, without sacrificing visual effects/quality? I am aware of the .ini file (not familiar, just aware), and also a script I saw to disable all services in XP.

I'm not sure how the FPS is so low when we've got 1GB of RAM, and 1.5 to 3 times more space for the page file.

YAY!

Let me have another look at your diag first.

 

[Neon Deon]

Awesome - that worked perfectly.

1 down, 1 to go...adjusting to get a higher FPS.

Is there a way to speed this thing up, without sacrificing visual effects/quality? I am aware of the .ini file (not familiar, just aware), and also a script I saw to disable all services in XP.

I'm not sure how the FPS is so low when we've got 1GB of RAM, and 1.5 to 3 times more space for the page file.

FPS tweaks for 152.

Set windows to run system ram first(use only if you have 1 gig or more of ram).

Strart/run/ type in: regedit
Find it under 'HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SYSTEM/CurrentControlSet/SessionManager/MemoryManagement/
Change Disable paging executive from 0 to 1
Highlight right click on it and select modify to change the value.

Adjust the CIV ini file.

AllowScreenShots = 0
SyncInput = 1
D3D9Query = 1
LoggingEnabled = 1
; Disable caching of file system (may slow initialization)
DisableFileCaching = 1

; Disable caching of xml and file system (may slow initialization)
DisableCaching = 1

; Set to 1 to page units out when non-visible
DynamicUnitPaging = 0
; Set max frame rate clamp (0 means none)
SetMaxFrameRate = 30

; Set to 1 for dynamic animation paging
DynamicAnimPaging = 0

Set a fixed 2000/2000 page file to partition or disk separate from the OS and run the game alone with no other programs running.
Start/run

Type in:

msconfig

Disable all on startup tab.

Under services tab check the box for hide all MS services,disable the rest, apply, and reboot.

Change it to 2000/2000 initial and maximum.

Control panel/system/advanced/performance/settings/advanced/virtual memory change button/

Select custom size and set it to 2000/2000. make sure you are doing it for the D drive.

After you have set the D drive page file turn off the C page file.


Hope that helps.