posted 01-09- 04:57 PM               

I have been having crashes in SDOE which at first I though were random, but now I think something with sound effects or my sound card is causing crashes. I'll run down my problem below.

First of all I have upgraded my soundcard from a Creative audio Sound Blaster to a Santa Cruz Turtle beach. The sound in all of my other games is perfect and even better, and I get no crashes at any time, and my Mp3's also play fine. Only SDOE is crashing on me.

My crashes only happen with certain vehicles and weapons. For example, when I am flying the short stirling and drop bombs the the game pauses for a few seconds, I get a wierd noise and the sound dissapears completely. Then the frame rates drop really low and I eventually get an exception OE error. Or instead of the the sound going away, it makes a high pitched squel that will not go away untill I reboot. After I loose sound I get no sound through my whole PC and have to reboot, but my PC will not reboot properly and then I have to hold the on/off button in for 5 seconds untill it shuts down.

The crashes are consistant in one way, I always loose sound completely then SDOE crashes and I need to reboot. Usually the crash is related to an engine starting or rocket/bomb firing. This happens mainly with my WWII install. But it has also happened a couple of times in my WWI install when rockets are fired or the pilots talk.

I have all of the proper files in my startup.ppf for all of my ac and vehicles. I have tried deleting the SDOE cache files and that did not work. I also have the latest sound Card drivers for my Santa Cruz, I have the 2.10 patch installed for SDOE and I'm running WinMe.

Is it possible I need to change some of my sound card settings? could it be something with my sounds.ppf file? I'm really clueless and I have done 3 SDOE reinstalls in the last 5 months, and I'll only do that as a last option. Thanks for the help all.

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posted 01-10- 12:44 PM               

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posted 01-10- 01:52 PM               

This problem looks like a directsound problem... sometimes the IRQ from a soundcard
"mismatchs" with Video (I Luv Microsoft DX :mad . Try change the Irq from SB or disable some intructions in DXdiag -> Directsound. I have this prob a time ago but I canīt remember how Iīve fix it... sorry

cheers,
K-A

posted 01-10- 03:40 PM               

You are the greatest I went into Dxdiag like you said, then I went to direct sound and turned the hardware accelleration down to Basic. Then I went over to SDOE to test it out, got in the Short Stirling, dropped bombs and it didn't crash! I did the test 3 times and SDOE is working perfectly again. Thanks KA

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posted 01-11- 07:59 AM               

Good news are ever welcome

cheers & beers
K-A