Cryisis: really bad sound stuttering

[linkin]

Anyone else get really bad sound stuttering? I heard the game uses FMOD, so does bioshock, and bioshock has sound stuttering too. Some people said that simply downloading and installing the FMOD utility would cause the stuttering to go away, so can anyone confirm this? i'm downloading it myself, and here's the link:

http://www.fmod.org/index.php/download#FMODExProgrammersAPI

 

[linkin]

well it worked no more stuttering, flaky sound. which means no fps drops

I suppose this works for bioshock or any other games that uses fmod.

 

[Gooberman]

well on the crysis demo when i ran though the buildings with car sound would be so distorted lol

 

[linkin]

yeah it did that to me, but in the retail version. even with the patch.

 

[DCIScouts]

One thing to keep in mind is that you want to make sure as many things are shut down in the background as possible. I like to listen to iTunes sometimes while I'm gaming if I'm sick of the game music, and there's one game in particular that if iTunes is open when I start the game I get really weird clipping. But, if I start the game and then start iTunes, no problem... Just something else to keep in mind for the future...

 

[diduknowthat]

Are you sure it's not your X-fi card acting up? The Xtreme Audio doesn't have hardware acceleration and relies on software to simulate X-fi effects and such.

 

[linkin]

this happened on my onboard realtek as well, and a lot worse. Today, the sound went funky again. then normal after i opened fmod. it appears that before you run crysis you need to open the fmod app first.

I already said no other games do this, so i'm pretty sure it's not my X-Fi... And i think Vista and 7 don't support hardware acceleration anyway. (for some entirely f***ed up reason. hardware acceleration for sound is supported on windows xp, and crysis doesn't get this problem on windows xp. )

 

[diduknowthat]

this happened on my onboard realtek as well, and a lot worse. Today, the sound went funky again. then normal after i opened fmod. it appears that before you run crysis you need to open the fmod app first.

I already said no other games do this, so i'm pretty sure it's not my X-Fi... And i think Vista and 7 don't support hardware acceleration anyway. (for some entirely f***ed up reason. hardware acceleration for sound is supported on windows xp, and crysis doesn't get this problem on windows xp. )

Windows 7 doesn't support hardware acceleration for sound? Where did you hear about this?

Either way, the X-fi xtremeaudio doesn't support hardware acceleration in any case.

The entry-level model of the X-Fi series, the Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Audio, does not actually have the EMU20K1 chip but is a re-branded Audigy SE, using the same family of chips (CA0106-WBTLF), and even the same drivers.[9] Thus, not only is all of the X-Fi–related processing performed in software, but it also lacks basic hardware acceleration just like the SB Live! 24-bit, the Audigy SE and other budget Soundblaster models.