Vibrating sound when playing

[chammy 7]

When Im playing OFP , when I use the shift to run fast or even the direction buttons I get a really weird vibrato sound and the sound seems to slow down a bit.But when i take my hand off its ok.Same thing happens when i have a P2P program or Win Amp on and the music is playing and when i use the shift button or direction button the same thing or sound happens.Is there a way around this or to correct this?Thanks.

[theavonlady 2]

When you shut down the other programs mentioned, does the problem go away?

[Mister Frag 0]

Turn off the StickyKeys, FilterKeys, and ToggleKeys feature in the Accessibility Options applet in the Control Panel. Uncheck the "Use..." checkbox, then go into the Settings for each of these features and turn off the "Use Shortcut" option.

[chammy 7]

Hmm,I'll try that.Yeah Avon, I tried turning them off, they worked a few times.I found I had a virus and a few TROJ that in the processe in task manager had the ID of soundcontrol .Not sure if that were the problem too.

[chammy 7]

Dang, Mister Frag, well i tried it and there were nothing checked at all on the boxes.Thanks.I am going to keep trying to find out in the sound control case , there has to be something with my sound card settings and such that are getting tied together.

[Major Fubar 0]

Turn off the StickyKeys, FilterKeys, and ToggleKeys feature in the Accessibility Options applet in the Control Panel. Uncheck the "Use..." checkbox, then go into the Settings for each of these features and turn off the "Use Shortcut" option.

...StickyKeys...

I don't know how many good OFP soldiers have needlessly lost their lives for *$#@!+& StickyKeys! I don't know how many carefully planned coopr missions that have run for 2 hours have been blown by some soldier seemingly doing a mad-run straight into an enemy camp because of StickyKeys! I hate StickyKeys with every fibre of my being!

...anyway, back on topic...

[chammy 7]

huh?

[Major Fubar 0]

Sorry dude. What I was trying to say is that sticky keys has been a serious problem for me in the past...it may or may not be sticky keys that is your problem. Refer to Mr Frag's initial post...

[SpeedyDonkey 0]

What is a sticky key / and how do they become sticky?

[Mister Frag 0]

StickyKeys is a feature in Windows that allows keys to stick, i.e. retain their pressed state. It allows people with limited motor skills and other disabilities to operate keyboards.

Things we take for granted, such as pressing SHIFT to access upper-case letters, can be virtually impossible to accomplishe for some without such support.

The trigger for some of these features to turn on is to told down the key in question. To get SHIFT to stay ON, you would simply press the key for two or three seconds (I'm not sure of the exact duration), and then when you release it, it stays on until you press and release it again. The keyboard shortcuts for turning on StickyKeys, FilterKeys, and ToggleKeys are enabled by default on Windows, which is great for people with disabilities, but not so great for gamers.

Obviously, if a key such as SHIFT, CONTROL or ALT stays on after releasing it, it can wreak havok on a game if you don't know what's causing it.

Back to the original problem: my assumption was that some key was sticking and filling up the keyboard buffer, and causing a continous beep. From what I've read now, it is something else, though I'm not sure what. Exactly what is generating the sound, and is there actualy vibration? Do you have a wireless keyboard that might be causing RF noise that is being picked up by your speakers?

[chammy 7]

Thankls Major Frag. You know what?Now that you mention wireless keyboard,I dont have one but i did just recently change my keyboard to a Labtec and since then I have been having to reboot my computer from start just so the computer recognizes my keyboard for it to work.I tried loading the software from the manufacture CD but still nothing.I had teh same problem when I had an IBM optical mouse ,it had trouble with the usb not being used untill after a few unpluging and repluging the mouse in it recognizes it.

Well the sound seems to do ok ,"sometimes".Its when either i press and hold down the shift to sprint and or use the direction keys that they seem to make the sound drag,like if it was slowing down and at the same time it makes the game slow down.But when I let off then the game and sound are ok.

Sam thing happens when I am using an MP3 player, when the music is playing and I use the direction or shift key for anything it slows the music down,making a draging sound.

[Major Fubar 0]

I know sticky keys are there for the benefit of the handicapped. I would never begrudge them being part of Windows.

What I hate is when you know for an absolute fact that you've turned them off, only to have a lengthy mission ruined by the infamous sticky keys popup.  

[Placebo 31]

Can't you just track down whatever exe is responsible and rename it? That's what I do with other stuff that windows refuses to let me stop

[MI_Fred 0]

Would ya hold on to your horses and not gallop over the stickyKeys  

I haven't seen any mention of comp/system specs yet, and I bet it's more likely something with the soundcard. A poor old one can bring even the mightiest pc down. I recently plugged my ancient SB live back in and it does still stress the cpu a bit but nothing like it used to. And I too get that vibrato, kinda. It's only a chopping 'wind-in-your-ears' sound tho when you run, you know that sound. And that's rare.

What's more harmful is bad usage habits. Ofcourse, p2p is *cough*ful   , you know where you get your trojans. But even more harmful to a PC is it's user. You sure you uninstalled your previous keyboard drivers if there were any? Same with mouse. Same with everything. I obsess about this tuning so that I use a startup monitor proggy, programs running in the background are bad, mkay. I could go on but I'd rather hear in what shape your PC is in.

[bn880 5]

Hay, how about a spelling fix to the topic title? It buggs the heck out of bn880.

[chammy 7]

A spelling fix?  

Well anyways, my PC is a year old with an EPox motherboard Athlon XP 2400+,(but on system properties it says Athlon XP 1800+,I think i got ripped off) 512 mb DDR RAM,Radeon 9500/9700 128mb ddr G Card,60G Maxtar hdrive,AOpen Cobra sound card and WinXP Pro.The mother board still probably has the software for the old sound card,I dont know how to get rid of it and I had some problems trying to get the computer to recognise that the Cobra sound card has an SPDIF digital in and out on it and it registers that the old sound card does ,even though it really doesnt. The keyboard I have no idea how to get the old software off.The old one was of another computer system, a Micron.So i really dont know where to go to get the old software uninstalled.

[Mister Frag 0]

Well anyways, my PC is a year old with an EPox motherboard Athlon XP 2400+,(but on system properties it says Athlon XP 1800+,I think i got ripped off)

Nope, you didn't get ripped off.

The internal clockspeed of the Athlon XP 2400+ is 1800 MHz, which AMD says is equivalent in computing power to an Intel P4 running at 2400 MHz.

[Mister Frag 0]

I know sticky keys are there for the benefit of the handicapped. I would never begrudge them being part of Windows.

What I hate is when you know for an absolute fact that you've turned them off, only to have a lengthy mission ruined by the infamous sticky keys popup.  

Your problem is that you turned StickyKeys etc. off, but left the keyboard shortcut to turn them back on enabled -- you have to click on the Settings button for each of the keyboard enhancements and turn off the keyboard shortcut for each.

Once you do that, the features will stay off.

[chammy 7]

Woa dude!  I didnt know that!Awesome and I was just looking for th number to the manufactureer to gripe and complain.Thanks.

Well I am looking into my system now to check.I'll report back

[Major Fubar 0]

Can't you just track down whatever exe is responsible and rename it? That's what I do with other stuff that windows refuses to let me stop

Actually, since I've moved up from Win2000 to WinXP, it hasn't happened...but the painful memories remain...

[Placebo 31]

I went the other way and consider that "up"

[chammy 7]

Ok, I disabled everything i could find so I''ll see if that helps.

[bn880 5]

I went the other way and consider that "up"

You medievalist conservatist, Placebo.

Thanks for spelling fix.

[MI_Fred 0]

Well anyways, my PC is a year old with an EPox motherboard Athlon XP 2400+,(but on system properties it says Athlon XP 1800+,I think i got ripped off)

Nope, you didn't get ripped off.

The internal clockspeed of the Athlon XP 2400+ is 1800 MHz, which AMD says is equivalent in computing power to an Intel P4 running at 2400 MHz.

While that may be the correct Mhz, Chammy did you mean to say that your CPU is recognized as a 1800+ while it infact is a 2400+? If so, you've missed out on a lot of the processing power the CPU has to offer AMD.com forums are your best bet to find out what I'm snickering about, helped me with my 2600+ which at first was supposedly only a 2000+ but with the correct FSB set from bios it runs as it should. Lets put it this way, 1000 more in ofp benchmark heh.

[chammy 7]

Yeah, I checked again to make sure I wasnt seeing things and at start up it says Athlon XP 1800+ and I had bought what I thought was the 2400+.I'm checking out forums now.Thanks bro.