[SOLVED] Music turns to static white noise

[Alienchild]

Hi, just bought this game on Steam but having a nasty time with a music bug. Randomly it seems my music track turns to a blast of static which is extremely annoying. I have to turn the music volume right down. Any ideas?

Running on Windows XP, under Steam. No other game play issues AFAIK

[UltraMantis]

Does this happen with any other game you play? Does it happen when you enter/exit combat? Because music changes at that point. You could try to update the sound device drivers or run a directx test to check for compatibility or errors.

I don't know what's causing this bug. You could turn the music down all the way, but that's not much of a solution.

[Alienchild]

Still trying to establish common cause(s). It certainly appears to be related to combat, especially explosions. Never happened in any other game. I will try to give a more detailed breakdown once I have tried out different things. AFAIK my directx drivers etc are all up to date as I check often but will check again.

[boa13]

What sound card or sound chip do you have in your computer? If it is a laptop, which brand, which model? Do you have a 32-bits version of Windows XP (most common), or a 64-bits version? It's not so much the DirectX drivers that you have to upgrade (whatever those are), but the sound card drivers.

[Alienchild]

Hi, I disabled hardware acceleration on my sound and that seems to have done the job. 32 bit Windows XP. Sound/Audio is via Nvidia and SoundMax. Only thing left to test is that I have the latest versions for these and if not, update and test again with sound acceleration.

[UltraMantis]

Well i'm very happy that you found the solution. Maybe it can also help someone else. Not so happy that you have that problem, but i have no ideas.

Let us know if you learn more.

[Alienchild]

Updated drivers for Nvidia Audio and SoundMax and now no problems at all even with hardware acceleration of sound enabled.