Shadrach Posted April 4, 2010 Share Posted April 4, 2010 I've been having various problems running the game, blue screen crashes, echoing teamspeak and terminal " The memory could not be "read"". messages. These seem to be sorted except for one last one that suddenly started last night and has me foxed. All sounds in game repeat twice, button clicks, AI voices, engine sounds, weapons etc. All other computer sounds including teamspeak in and out of the game are perfect. This problem is in both 4.09 clean and ultrapack 2 versions and all my old backups that havn't been run for months. I've run RegInOut to clean up the system and driver sweep to check for odd drivers floating around all to no avail. The problem started when I disabled CM18738/C3DX PCI Audio Device in the hardware manager. I enabled it again but had no sound in game even though all other computer sounds including teamspeak came back. On investigating I found that SoundUse = 0 under [sound] in config but this entry was =1 in the configs of all the other games I have. I changed it to = 1 and the sound came back but with the double repeat. But I don't think it is a config problem as, like I said, it also happens even in old copies. Any ideas you techies? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snacko Posted April 4, 2010 Share Posted April 4, 2010 Does this happen even when Teamspeak is not running? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shadrach Posted April 4, 2010 Author Share Posted April 4, 2010 Does this happen even when Teamspeak is not running? Yes it does Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1. DDz Quorum FoolTrottel Posted April 4, 2010 1. DDz Quorum Share Posted April 4, 2010 Check whether the in-game communication option is switched off. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shadrach Posted April 4, 2010 Author Share Posted April 4, 2010 Check whether the in-game communication option is switched off. I've tried it with communication both on and off - no difference. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1. DDz Quorum FoolTrottel Posted April 4, 2010 1. DDz Quorum Share Posted April 4, 2010 Mute the Microphone on the Windows Control Panel Sound Device's volume playback settings? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shadrach Posted April 4, 2010 Author Share Posted April 4, 2010 I've tried muting microphone in control panel to no effect. The fact that the problem is in all copies of the game, several in the programmes folder and several in a seperate folder outside the programmes folder and none of which have had this problem before makes me think it must be either a driver or a hardware problem. I normally only use one particular game installation and if that one was flakey but the other installations were OK then it would most likely be a game setting at fault. If it was a hardware problem then I would have thought other sounds on the system would be affected, teamspeak, youtube, dvds etc. but they are all fine. The most likely cause it would seem to me would be a driver or a driver conflict that only seems to interfere with IL2. It really is a bit wierd. The hard drive and Windows I have has been connected to two different motherboards both with onboard audio plus I have installed an external PCI Trust sound card. The onboard sound has been disabled in the bios but maybe there are some drivers left over somewhere causing the problem. Under Sound, video and game controllers I have: Audio Codecs CMI8738/C3DX PCI Audio Device LegacyAudio Drivers Legacy Video Capture Devices Media Control Devices Standard Game Port Video Codecs They all come up as being installed and working properly. I have also run Driver Fetch which says there are 2 critical updates needed for the Sound, video and game controllers, one for the CMI8738/C3DX PCI Audio Device and another for Realtek High Definition Audio. I had found disabling the PCI Audio Device disables all sound so have enabled it again . I think this is what may have triggered the problem in the first place. I wonder if the Realtek driver might be more to do with an onboard sound setup from the past. I'm a little reluctant to remove or reinstall drivers without some more expert input as to be honest my expertese tends to be in screwing up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1. DDz Quorum B16Enk Posted April 4, 2010 1. DDz Quorum Share Posted April 4, 2010 Look for a 'What You Hear' input device in your recording mixer. If found kill it, shred it and then set fire to it. Then call in a priest and exorcise just in case. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shadrach Posted April 5, 2010 Author Share Posted April 5, 2010 I've had to work today but I'm back on the case now and seem to have solved it. I couldn't find anything like a 'What You Hear' input device on my system but I did find a driver on the web. I crossed my fingers, touched wood and gave next doors black cat a good kick (its always in our garden digging holes) and removed the sound card from the device manager. When I reinstalled the download the ingame sounds were back to normal - hooray. I still for the life of me am completely mystified as to why the problem should only affect the sound in IL2. I will wait to see if teamspeak is still OK tommorow. Thanks for your ideas. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1. DDz Quorum B16Enk Posted April 7, 2010 1. DDz Quorum Share Posted April 7, 2010 It was the title of your post 'Irritating Glitch' that caught my eye, reminded me of the ex-wife for some reason. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shadrach Posted April 8, 2010 Author Share Posted April 8, 2010 At least yours is ex Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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