Sound Issues and FSX Sound DLL

[airboatr]

Hiya all

I have been having a sound problem in my computer for some time. I have recently removed all the drivers and gone through my registry and folders to ensure
that no remnants were left. reinstalled and still having a crackle or popping in the background , although not as severe, still there.
I deleted my FSX CFG file still there. I tried deleting the Sound DLL and copied the one off the FSX Disk but the sim wouldn't start so back in with the old
and It starts NP

any ideas?

Joe

[DarrenL]

Does it do it with other things, MP3, video, DVD, Youtube?

If so is it separate speakers, headphones or inbuilt (laptop or screen)? If speakers or inbuilt can you test with headphones? Does it do the same thing?
Soundcard or integrated sound? If soundcard can you check your device manager settings to make sure that the integrated sound chip is off.


If it's just FSX what sound settings do you have set in FSX settings?

Eg, sound levels for each item and also the ingame device choices.

Eg. These aren't my settings just a random screen shot from the net that shows the screen.

[airboatr]

hello Darren and thanks for the reply.

Well now it is only present when FSX is running , if I open you tube and play a vid it's present, clicking on the X to close a windows .. I get a pop
But if I close FSX it goes away.
It used to be present upon opening any application but after I gutted the old drivers and reinstalled it's only with FSX. (although less severe than before)

Sound settings FSX
audigy for FSX device
and default for voice


Joe

my specs
XP SP3
FSX W/ Accel
Nvidia gt220
SB Audigy 4
Intel 820 with 4 gig on mobo
one HHD 320 gig all programs on same partition.

[basys]

Hi Folks

Joe -
Crackling & popping can be a symptom
of having your sliders set too high
for your PC's currently available resources.

Particularly more prevalent with onboard-sound chipsets, (rather than a seperate soundcard).

A partial workaround is
to run DXDiag
and turn off your "Audio Hardware Acceleration",
and reduce your sound quality.

HTH
ATB
Paul

[DarrenL]

You can also check to see if it's the sound quality settings in the fsx.cfg under this section

[SOUND]
SOUND_QUALITY=2

0=Low, 1=Med, and 2=High quality sound in the cfg file

If it's already 2 change to 1 and test, then 0.


If so and it's still the same I wonder if it is your sound card settings as yo have reinstalled the drivers but maybe not changed the config, could you have a look at whatever options you have for turning on or muting all the sound options. If there a speaker option if you don't use it mute it.
Not sure what option you see as I don't have that card but if you know what you use try turning all off/mute apart from the main volume/speakers and see if that fixes it. Then turn back on options until you get the culprit.

[airboatr]

ok gents I've got a lot more of it worked out.. I'll be back with a report later.

Joe