Nasty Sound please help

[Elohgnub]

First off let me say thanks for any help anyone can give.

Next here is my problem. I bought BF 1942 loaded it up then patched it. When I first ran it. It crashed. Then I reloaded it again and patched again and it ran fine this time but the sound was bad. The sound was bad the first time but it crashed so quick I dont know how bad.

Anyways here are my specs of my machine.

MSI 6380E w/on board sound
AMD 1800
Geforce 2 mx/400 64mb
2700 256ddr ram
40gb hd
Logitec z340 speakers
win 98 se

Again thanks to any input cause I just want to play bf 1942 :-(

 

[Dabom]

What do you mean by "bad"? The sound is distorted or just plain isn't there?

 

[Elohgnub]

Its there but sounds very staticy..its hard to explain a sound on a message board but let me try

When I log in to the game and pick a guy the sound then starts to click and pop. more click then pop. The clicks are very much static sounding.

I then tweaked with the sound quality by turning it to medium then to low. I changed the channels and this made the sound worse.

I have not tried the dxdiag fix that was posted so I'm gonna try that today when I get a chance.

Thanks for the response.

 

[Dabom]

Update your on-board audio drivers: http://download.msi.com.tw/support/dvr_exe/alc45.exe

Update DirectX: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/directx/downloads/drx81.asp

And, yes, try adjusting the hardware acceleration in dxdiag.

 

[Elohgnub]

I did the first two. The sound driver update did help a little bit but not major.

I'm gonna try the dxdiag and post more tonight or tomorrow.

thanks again

 

[Elohgnub]

Ok tried the DXdiag fix and it worked. One problem though. When I logged back into the game after eatting dinner it had the same problem? How do I keep this from happening?

 

[Wargasm]

strange .
what is is running in the background ?

 

[Elohgnub]

I'm running a program called Screen Shield. Its a cafe style software. I'm also running winzip and my sound rack program. I disabled both to see if it would make a difference but it has not. Now to top it off the machine is randomly crashing. Now this could be a 98se bug or also bad memory so I'm going to try to work on that by putting xp on my machine and putting a new piece of memory in it also.

Thanks again for the feed back.