Warcraft III Removing Sound from the Equation

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I have noticed a few posts on the Blizzard Open Tech Support forum that some people were resolving there problems by disabling the sound card. Obviously disabling the sound card is not a permanent solution but if your game works when you do it you can pretty much bet that sound card drivers or some sound related issue is messing you up. This is important information.

I am not going to detail how to disable the sound card but if you want to try this and want to know how to do it without physically taking it out of the computer post here, include your Operating System and type of Sound Card and we might be able to help you test it.
 
This one is also from the Blizzard forums and he solved his Black Screen by disabling the sound card

http://forums.battle.net/opensupport/posts/ls/24815.shtml

Subject: Black Screen Crash: Solved (for me)
From: Ryle
Date: Sat Jul 6 04:51:31

After lots of hours formatting, reinstalling, reading blizzard hot
issues solution and finally the support messages on the forum, I
tried what some of you said, to disable the sound.

And it worked!!! But whithout sound ;)

Before I always thought it came from the video card, but now I'm
sure it comes from sound problem. For my part, I got no card sound as I use the sound bus from my mainboard.

Good luck to blizzard staff for solving this problem, and to you
if it doesnt work...

PS: Try this to disable sound:
-Start
-Settings
-System
-Check where in the peripheric tab is the "sound, video an
game controllers"
-Right click on the sound item and tick the box "disable in
this configuration set"

Try running the game...

PPS: I want sound T_T but well it's ok for the moment
PPSS: Excuse my bad english i come from France
 
And another one this is with SBLive

http://forums.battle.net/opensupport/posts/wr/24800.shtml

Subject: I disable sb live and war 3 work well
From: rockman
Date: Sat Jul 6 02:30:20

hmmmmm, think i got the problem, is that sblive drivers

playing the game without sound for abt 1 hour, no problems, no
damn fatal error msg

perhap u ppl should try disable ur sound card too and see if it
work

now i will try and mess with the drivers lol

will tell ya later if its work =)

P3 667
256 RAM
TNT2 M64 32RAM
SB LIVE!
WINXP PRO
 
Update on the last post, rockman posted back and said he had the problem again even without the sound.
 
wait, this seems to be my problem ( sorry i'm kinda late, you know what i mean... ) - game freezes while loading or saving. are you saying that this is a sound issue? i'm using onboard sound on my 8KTA2 ( i forgot the brand, it's at the tip of my tongue, i can't remember for now ) motherboard. so if i disable the sound, that would mean that i won't have any sound during the game right?
 
Correct. if you disable sound you will not have sound any time you play that game. It does not diasable sound for other (different) computers games
 
I disabled sound, since I have Sound Blaster Live! Value and my computer still locks up entirely after 10-15 minutes while playing Warcraft 3, can anyone help? I've disabled EAX and Positional Audio as well...

-justin
 
Try using the SBLive! driver that came with the sound card. My friend bought one and I installed it for him, along with the drivers on the Creative! CD. It works fine on EAX2. I didn't update it since he has a 56k (like me) ;)
 
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