11-01-2002 02:38									#1
	Sound issues in SMAC Tired of ads?

Love the game... it worked fine until I upgraded to XP. Now the sound is choppy for the wonder descriptions and other leader descriptions. Soundblaster PCI512, Geforce2MX/400. I upgraded my sound drivers, to no avail, and added the EAX=0 to the .ini file.

	11-01-2002 03:43									#2
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Welcome to NT/W2K/XP.

I get a nice echo in SMAC, it gives some of the tech discoveries an interesting eerie quality.

Maybe a different version (and not necessarily the newest) of the drivers will work better - what about DirectX drivers?

If nothing else, your machine will you for it and reward you by staying up more.

	12-01-2002 08:03									#3
	Support Apolyton, buy Galactic Civilizations: Deluxe Edition

DirectX drivers are current... XP ships with 8.1

It's still playable... it isn't like the speakers are shrieking at full volume every time there's a tech advance. It's just a little annoying scratchy echo. In fact, I'd say that the game is more playable in this state than Civ3 is in general

	16-01-2002 06:39									#4
	My Solution Support Apolyton, buy Civilization: The Boardgame

Hey,

Just wanted to post this information. I spoke with EA tech support, and they instructed me to turn down hardware acceleration for DirectX sound... from inside the DXDIAG tool. I turned it down to 'basic' and it works flawlessly. It's like I'm playing it for the first time again Hope this info is useful for other people.