Tulsidas on 5/12/2005 at 03:26
Try changing the in-game Latency setting (Advanced->Audio). The default is 40.
Gray on 9/12/2005 at 21:17
Could you please elaborate, Tulsidas? I can't find a Latency setting anywhere. In the Sound Settings menu, I have these options:
Music Vol
Sound FX Vol
Speech Vol
FX Channels
Sample Rate
Sound Quality
Reverse Stereo
Dolby
Hardware
Where exactly do I find the setting you're referring to?
Ultraviolet on 10/12/2005 at 04:05
In that advanced options panel the Unreal engine often has, the one where it kicks your game out of fullscreen and pops up a window. It won't be specifically in the sound options list in the main menu, I don't think.
And I just noticed you're running AC97 sound. TNT and I, in another thread in this forum, discovered that we both seem to have a lot of crashes caused by our AC97s. Have you tried turning your sound quality down to 11025Hz/8-bit yet? That eliminated a lot of crashes for me. TNT hasn't gotten back to me on the effects it has for her yet.
TheNightTerror on 10/12/2005 at 07:23
I think I'm going to live with the crashes. I simply can't stand that sound quality; it rapes my ears. :erm: It's worse now that I have my headphones, the shitty sound stands out even more. I just can't stand it. :erm:
Ultraviolet on 10/12/2005 at 07:27
TNT: If I hadn't just uninstalled, I'd offer to mess around with the advanced sound settings and try to find a solution that doesn't involve that sound quality, but I finished the game again, so I've uninstalled it for now. I'll leave it to somebody else.
I wonder if AC97 isn't directly to blame, but if heavy usage of the onboard sound (lots of channels in use at 44100Hz/16-bit) is causing uncooled (bare chip) southbridges to overheat and have trouble. IIRC AC97 runs off of the southbridge... I could be wrong.
TheNightTerror on 10/12/2005 at 10:44
Well, my laptop always got way too hot for my liking when I played DX, it was much hotter than when I ran the Dark engine games. Maybe it is a heat problem of some sort; depending on how my laptop situation is dealt with, I may be able to help there. I'm getting ripped off with the repairs, and I may get a new soundcard rather than have the headphone jack repaired. If that happens, and the crashes ease up, I'll let y'all know. :)
Knighted on 21/12/2005 at 07:33
I had the exact same problem. Just solved it now by disabling the AMD "cool'n'quiet" feature in the bios and then reinstalled Deus Ex. Probably didn't need to bother reinstalling it mind you.
Ultraviolet on 24/12/2005 at 02:46
Quote Posted by Knighted
I had the exact same problem. Just solved it now by disabling the AMD "cool'n'quiet" feature in the bios and then reinstalled Deus Ex. Probably didn't need to bother reinstalling it mind you.
Solution? Maybe for you. I don't have such a feature on my board, though it is an AMD.
Drat on 24/12/2005 at 03:43
My brother's laptop, which as I explained previously had a similar problem, has an Intel processor, I believe.
Knighted on 24/12/2005 at 07:09
i'm pretty sure it all has to do with the speed of the cpu. cool'n'quiet slows down the cpu when idle and laptops do the same. get your cpu running at its normal clockspeed and it should work fine. maybe setting power managment to 'always on'. i'm not sure.
