lance_ 10 Posted June 28, 2009 (edited) Getting nasty crackling sounds. Can't understand anything anyone is saying. Audio in other games and foobar2000 works fine. Installed the March 2009 redist. Installed the Realtek 2.27 high def drivers. Running Windows 7 64-bit build 7100. Issue persists when I use -winxp flag. No luck with -dsound either. Any help appreciated. Edited June 30, 2009 by lance_ left out that it was 64-bit, also resolved now Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
lance_ 10 Posted June 29, 2009 -openal helps, a little. Now I can actually understand the speech but there's still a very annoying pop at least once per second. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bulldogs 10 Posted June 29, 2009 I had a similar bug when running Witcher under Win7 with X-Fi Extremegamer, it turned out to be a driver issue with the pure drivers and beta drivers fixed it (under win7 64bit the drivers were running in compatibility mode which confused the audio codecs) I'd suggest testing under Vista or XP to see if you get the same issue, also try searching for Win7 beta realtek drivers (the user made ones usually work better for Win7) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
lance_ 10 Posted June 29, 2009 I had a similar bug when running Witcher under Win7 with X-Fi Extremegamer, it turned out to be a driver issue with the pure drivers and beta drivers fixed it (under win7 64bit the drivers were running in compatibility mode which confused the audio codecs)I'd suggest testing under Vista or XP to see if you get the same issue, also try searching for Win7 beta realtek drivers (the user made ones usually work better for Win7) Thanks for the tip. So far I've tried the defaults, 2.25, and 2.27 from Realtek. No luck finding third party drivers since googling just leaves me with a ton of sites wanting to charge me for downloads. Any hints where I could find the user made drivers? I don't have another partition on this machine and I'd rather try for a working driver than reinstall XP. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bulldogs 10 Posted June 29, 2009 I usually check Guru3d and softpedia myself. Another thing you could try is to install the 227 drivers but put them in Windows Vista compatibility mode first (heard it helps for most windows 7 realted problems) as this way it accesses a different method of using the audio. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
lance_ 10 Posted June 30, 2009 Alright! Thanks to Bulldogs here and Temujin|Futurelooks on IRC I've fixed things! Long story short: It was a driver issue. Installing the latest beta sound drivers for the P6T Deluxe v2 fixed it (even though I think I don't have the v2, just the Deluxe). Long story long: After trying Realtek 2.25, Realtek 2.25 beta, Realtek 2.27, P6T Deluxe latest drivers I decided to try the P6T Deluxe V2 drivers. They appeared to be more recent and I didn't think that the sound chip changed. If it did, well, the V2 drivers appear to be backwards compatable. The version that worked is labelled AD2008 Audio Driver 6.10.02.6570. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Fods 10 Posted July 25, 2009 Hi Lance i haven't tried that driver yet but i do have the same motherboard. do u run 5.1? do you run SoundMAX? and do you run the onboard sound card that comes with the motherboard? :D thank you. Mike Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
