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"The Stare" <wat1@not.likely.frontiernet.net> wrote in message
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> "Canopus" <BNRAGMAOKKXT@spammotel.com> wrote in message
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> > "The Stare" <wat1@not.likely.frontiernet.net> wrote in message
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> >> "Canopus" <BNRAGMAOKKXT@spammotel.com> wrote in message
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> >> > Please, can anyone help on this. Playing PTW DYP scenario and am
> >> > having
> > a
> >> > strange sound problem with the music. I'm hearing the music played
> > twice
> >> > about one second or so out of phase. It's as if the same sound file
is
> >> > loading twice or being played twice by different applications.
During
> >> > game
> >> > play I've hit Ctrl Alt Del to check if something like another player
> >> > has
> >> > been loaded, but, there is nothing there. Has anyone any idea how to
> >> > solve
> >> > this?
> >>
> >> Go into preferences and turn off all sound. Not sure if you need to
save
> > and
> >> exit first, but then turn it back on.
> >>
> >>
> >
> > Did that. Turned of all sound, saved, exited, re-launched, turned all
> > sound
> > back on, but, still the problem persists. There are two ways to turn
off
> > sound, one from the initial menu before game is launched, the other from
> > within the game. Tried both to no effect. Also noticed that when
turning
> > sound off from initial menu then launching the game and going to
> > Preferences
> > inside the game I find that sound is still enabled. I turned it off
from
> > there, but, music continued...I tuned it on again and then back off and
> > sound stopped. It's almost as if there is a conflict between the two
> > menus.
>
> The main menu preferences is only used for starting a new game and
possibly
> while you are at the main menu.
>
> The in game preferences affect the current game and are saved with the
game.
>
> One or the other or both are written to the ini file. I noticed i've been
> having odd sound problems of late and it seems there are an unusual number
> of players with a problem. I wouldn't be suprised to find out it is due to
> media player 10 or something.
>
> There is also a source of a potential bug in the ini file. There are 2
> settings for sound effects and the wrong one gets used at times. It is
> mentioned in one of the threads at civfanatics where firaxis discusses the
> ini settings. I don't remember reading about a cure.
>
>
I don't have WMP 10 on my system and have disassociated WMP 6 with
everything as I don't use it.
I did notice the ini sound settings, there are actually three settings, one
for overall volume, one for FX and the other for music, they all have an
understandable number next to them representing volume. There are a further
two sound settings there too, next to those are lines of ones and zeros,
binary code. I imagine it is those that could be giving the trouble.
I'm just glad that I am not the only one having sound problem, for a while I
thought that something had gone ape $h1t with my system
Rob