baeuchlein on 30/10/2008 at 14:53
Quote Posted by jbairdjr
I believe the problem is with the XP updates which were installed on my computer. You see, I didn't have this problem until AFTER the updates were installed.
So what do I do?
In theory, you just have to remove these updates and put anything back into the state your computer was
before these updates were installed. How you could do it, and
if you can do it at all, I don't know.
If you made a backup of XP somehow, this is the time to use it. If that fixes the problem, install the updates
one by one and see which one gives you the trouble. After that, restore your backup once more and install all updates except for the one which is responsible. Then decide whether you want more sophisticated sound or rather this last update.
Quote Posted by jbairdjr
I don't like playing my Thief game knowing it's damaged.
Your game is most likely
not damaged, since your disc seems to be OK, and the same thing happened with a newly-installed
Thief on your wife's computer. It's more likely that something between the game and the sound card's drivers has been changed, and now the game cannot see anymore that your sound card is able to do hardware accelerated sound. This is the case for Vista, where the interface for sound apparently has changed a lot and does not support EAX and other things anymore. For XP, this is something unusual, but apparently, something similar happened to your XP somehow.
jbairdjr on 31/10/2008 at 00:32
Then I wonder if all this is worth it? I mean, do I really need h/w acceleration for the sound on a game that's nearly 10 years old? I can still play the game and the sound effects are very good even w/o EAX or the h/w accel turned on in the game.
What do you guys think? Should I go through with all this?
EDIT 11pm EST-USA:
Okay, this is really really weird. The damn thing works now. I don't know what I did or how I did it. Here's what happens:
I insert the disk into the drive, close the thief splash-screen, double click on my regindeo file (for the movie fix), double click on the Thief shortcut on my desktop, and the TG menu appears--but with NO sound! I start to freak (a little) so I go into Options:Sound. Just for kicks I click on H/W acceleration and DAMN IF IT DIDN'T WORK!!! I mean I'm happier than a pig in slop! I can now turn on h/w accel. I wanna see if turning on the h/w accel cured the "no sound" prob so I exit to the main menu and realize it did not. I go back into sound to turn on EAX and the letters were still white. I cycle h/w accel and the EAX letters which were white are now green (as they should be after h/w accel is turned on) and I can now turn on EAX! WTF!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?
Btw, I have Logitech speakers (5.1 setup)where the main volume switch has a button labeled "matrix". When that button is pressed, I get awesome sound!
I thought the latest DirectX was 9.0c.
I have an SB X-Fi Fatal1ty
EvaUnit02 on 31/10/2008 at 18:39
Quote Posted by jbairdjr
I thought the latest DirectX was 9.0c.
DirectX is updated every three months or so, but they rarely change the version number.
