HELP! soundcard making strange noises

Cryteka · 06-12-2005, 05:29 PM

I recently got a new soundcard, Soundblaster Live! 24bit. When playing farcry with this new card, the audio will suddenly go crazy, producing this mad sound. This occurs everytime I play the game, and happens after a few minutes of playing. I am using 5.1 speakers with hardware mixing and EAX enabled in the farcry options. I have done a fresh install of windows XP, and it still happens.

This noise seems to only come when playing farcry, I play halo PC and joint operations also and it hasnt happened.

After the noise has come and gone, the only audio i hear is the sound of bullits hitting objects.

Does anybody know what i can do to stop this noise, or identify if it is a hardware fault?

**dragon2309** · 06-12-2005, 07:16 PM

Disable EAX as it tries to accelerate the hardware. This may be causing errors. Check for any updated drivers and patches/fixes from manufacturer. Check the the card is seated properly in the PCI slot.

06-12-2005, 05:29 PM	#1 (permalink)
Cryteka New Member Join Date: Jun 2005 Posts: 1	HELP! soundcard making strange noises I recently got a new soundcard, Soundblaster Live! 24bit. When playing farcry with this new card, the audio will suddenly go crazy, producing this mad sound. This occurs everytime I play the game, and happens after a few minutes of playing. I am using 5.1 speakers with hardware mixing and EAX enabled in the farcry options. I have done a fresh install of windows XP, and it still happens. This noise seems to only come when playing farcry, I play halo PC and joint operations also and it hasnt happened. After the noise has come and gone, the only audio i hear is the sound of bullits hitting objects. Does anybody know what i can do to stop this noise, or identify if it is a hardware fault? Last edited by Cryteka; 06-12-2005 at 09:10 PM.

06-12-2005, 07:16 PM	#2 (permalink)
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