Music skipping/echoing

[darke]

After 10/15 minutes of play I'll notice the music starts having an annoying "echo". Like one loop of sound getting stuck and repeating over and over in another channel whilst the main music continues to play.

Haven't managed to reproduce it in any useful way, but by quitting to the main menu, it resets the sound system and the noise stops. I haven't noticed tracks changing causing it to disappear.

EDIT: The music changing tracks does seem to remove the skipping/echo.

[Echo35]

Sounds a lot like a driver thing. Had this happen on a few other games before. Updating your sound drivers do anything?

[darke]

Looks like I've got the latest from creative's site. But as it's only just started happening with the latest version of AI War, I'm guessing it's something subtle due to heavy process load and alt tabbing. Last nights game was somewhat odd in that respect due to continually writing forum posts as I was playing to log odd bugs/quirks I'd found.

[Echo35]

Looks like I've got the latest from creative's site. But as it's only just started happening with the latest version of AI War, I'm guessing it's something subtle due to heavy process load and alt tabbing. Last nights game was somewhat odd in that respect due to continually writing forum posts as I was playing to log odd bugs/quirks I'd found.

Oh, Creative. Well there's your problem

[darke]

Oh, Creative. Well there's your problem

Hush you.

They've gotten less sucky over the years in driver support, though they're still pretty terrible if you're trying to do anything fancy. I haven't had any issues with them doing basic music playing/sfx mixing and the like before like I'm experiencing at the moment.

[Echo35]

Oh, Creative. Well there's your problem

Hush you.

They've gotten less sucky over the years in driver support, though they're still pretty terrible if you're trying to do anything fancy. I haven't had any issues with them doing basic music playing/sfx mixing and the like before like I'm experiencing at the moment.

If you're a Linux user like I am, you know the pain of rebuilding your entire Kernel just to enable Creative support and then having it still have crappy buffers that make it crackle. And god forbid anyone fixes their shit for them: http://gizmodo.com/373748/creative-presents-cease+and+desist-note-to-developer-hero

Needless to say I've moved on since then, lol

[Magitek]

I'm not using creative and i've heard this problem occasionally. I doubt it's driver based. It's quite rare but annoying: I think I recall alt-tabbing for awhile fixed it. or Pausing.

I'm using VIA HD on latest drivers. No problems ever with it.

[x4000]

I've never seen this problem, only a few scattered people have reported it, and I don't have a way to duplicate it.  Most likely this sort of thing is below the level of the application, either in DirectX, possibly (but unlikely, or more people would be seeing it) SlimDX, or else in the drivers/OS.  There's really nothing that I can do about this until I have some sort of way to duplicate it, and even then it might be out of my hands, unfortunately.