Stuttering sound

[Kerberos]

Hi

I've been playing CIV 4 for 4 months with no problems at all until my hard drive died and I reinstalled everything onto a new one. The audio stutters badly both at the intro screen and in-game, it sounds similar to a scratched music CD. I've tried a few other games and some Mp3s and they all work fine.

My specs are: Athlon 2000+, 512meg ram, 64 meg GeForce2 MX400, VIA 97 onboard sound, XP Pro. I know my graphics and sound are the bare minimum I need to run CIV4 but it all worked ok on the lowest graphics setting when I was using my old HD.

Any ideas?

 

[Zanmato]

I would think it's a memory issue. I had the same problem with sounds until I got 1GB of RAM installed. I would defrag your new HD and check to see of your pagefile is large enough to handle the game.

 

[Kerberos]

Just borrowed an extra 512meg DIMM from my girlfriends PC, defragged and the pagefile size is now 1.5gig, but still no joy

 

[Comraddict]

change sound to stereo

 

[Kerberos]

change sound to stereo

That was the first thing I checked, I've tried mono, stereo and systems config in CIV and have tweaked the sound settings in Windows, I get the same problem regardless.

 

[Kerberos]

bumpy bump

 

[jimmiedee65]

i have the same problem, not sure about my comp specs, but i bought it for about £1000 (U.K) in 2003 so it's not brilliant
i rebooted some time ago and lost quite a bit. Also, when i put the civ CD in it takes about 5 minutes to start reading the disc, it makes occasional scratching sounds before then. This happens with all my new games.
I've turned sound down and put all graphics to minimum, i can play large maps ok but any huge ones and after i've explored 1/6 of the map it takes about 5 minutes for next turn to load.

 

[crunch]

Could it be that the "new" hard disk you have is slower than the "old" one that died? Or perhaps you've had 2 hard disks before and now you only have one?

 

[Twinian]

I've had the same problem when playing windowed instead of full screen. So may be you should broaden your search for the cause. Look for options which are set to non-standard values?

My five cents...