Another hardware acceleration problem..... - by Enchantermon
Enchantermon on 7/9/2006 at 01:36
Well, I searched and found a thread from last year about the same issue, but nobody answered the guy, so I decided not to resurrect it. Anyway. Today I went to play SS2 on my laptop and I can't turn hardware acceleration on. The option is clickable, but it doesn't change when I click on it. I tried forcing it through changes in the cam.cfg file, but that only left me with no sound at all. I ran dxdiag and under the sound tab the Hardware Sound Acceleration Level slider is all the way to the right. When I run the test in dxdiag, all of the sounds play, but at the end I get a message saying "Your sound card does not support hardware buffering. Sounds will only play back from software buffers." My card is a Realtek High Definition Audio. Any suggestions? Thanks in advance!
polytourist97 on 7/9/2006 at 03:54
So wait, when you first tried playing it, could you not play it at all? or were the sounds just messed up?
My onboard sound is Realtek, and unfortunately, I could NEVER get it to work properly, so in that regard I don't know what could be done...
Enchantermon on 7/9/2006 at 03:56
I haven't actually started a game yet, but I assume that the sounds are fine. The speaker test works, but I can't activate hardware acceleration.
[EDIT]Yes, the sounds work fine in-game. It's just that EAX isn't enabled.[/EDIT]
cosmicnut on 7/9/2006 at 09:17
usual silly question, have you tried upgrading your drivers?
That chipset is EAX compatable but not a Creative chipset. I wouldn't be surprised if SS2 used a set of non genric function calls....
Bomb Bloke on 8/9/2006 at 04:45
Is you card supposed to support hardware buffering? If it isn't, then of course it has to be handled by software, and of course you won't be able to make the game do it any other way.
As has been mentioned, driver upgrades are the way to go if DirectX got it wrong.
june gloom on 8/9/2006 at 08:30
what kind of videocard do you have, enchantermon? that could be the problem (it usually is...)
Enchantermon on 9/9/2006 at 03:53
Well, I tried installing the drivers. The Hardware Acceleration option works now, but the sound doesn't change when I turn it and EAX on.
Quote Posted by Bomb Bloke
Is you card supposed to support hardware buffering? If it isn't, then of course it has to be handled by software, and of course you won't be able to make the game do it any other way.
I really don't know. The sound card came with the computer and without any documentation. Do you know how I could find out?
Quote Posted by dethtoll
what kind of videocard do you have, enchantermon? that could be the problem (it usually is...)
I have a NVIDIA GeForce Go 7300. How would the graphics card affect the sound?
june gloom on 9/9/2006 at 04:17
if you had a better video card that would fix your sound issues. i used to have a computer with onboard video and it totally raped and pillaged my sound half the time.
Enchantermon on 9/9/2006 at 05:42
So.....I have no other options?
