I have no sound AT ALL comming from my computer when loading up lfs...about 8 times out of 10....the sound drivers are fine, the sound card is fine...i have loaded and unloaded and installed and deinstalled all my sound drivers and any other misc stuff and still nada.

Meaning it must be a problem with the program but i cant for the life of me work out what on earth is going on...

my computer is a toishiba equium a60-155 "stock" with a pretty substancial memory upgrade to around 1 gig of ram...the sound card is a AC97...i have had no problems with the program before and have quite enjoyed playing it...but i cant enjoy a game if i cant hear what the car is doing.....meaning i cant pull it back from the brink of spinout unless im in an unrealistic drive position (i try to keep this as a simulator...)

thanks for any help

J

Try disabling the music in the game (disable menu music and ingame music)

Also lets have a look at your system specs, would help us to see what exactly you have in your system. To do this, please post your DXDiag.txt.

To obtain your DXDiag.txt:

-Click Start, click Run, and then type in dxdiag

-A dialog should appear; This is your DirectX Diagnostic Tool.

-At the bottom of the dialog you will see a Save All Information button.
Click that to save the information to your Hard drive (dxdiag.txt)

-Either attach that dxdiag.txt file here in a reply (recommended) --- OR --- Copy and paste the contents of that file in a reply.

Or, it could even be just an accident, that you turned off the sound in the game?

Try these key combinations:

SHIFT + W (restores sound)
SHIFT + N (turn sounds on/off)

nope its when the game starts i have tryed reinstalling the sound (shift+W) and i have tryed switching the sound on and off (shift+n)

dxdiag.txt = http://www.jsplace.org.uk/DxDiag.txt

uploaded it to my server.

J

Well you have AC97 audio which is just standard onboard audio, and I can vouch for those sound devices causing problems in games. Most of the time just a simple driver update can fix it. You say you have updated the card via an updated driver, but is it from the manufacturer? Or is it a third party driver? Update your system's bios and find a newer version of the driver for the soundcard possibly.

Has the game's sound ever worked for you in the past? If so, have any idea of updates/reverts you've done lately?

Still, I would recommend having a real soundcard, AC97's are just standard onboard audio.

Other tips: In that DxDiag tool, under the sound tab, try testing the game at each setting value for Hardware Sound Acceleration (ie, test game at No Acceleration, etc etc) until you get results (hopefully).

I have already said in my first post that there was absolutly no problem with my sound card before i have reinstalled windows...and all my windows settings are the same,

Also as you can see from the dxdiag file i have already done all the system diag tests including the sound tests and they all worked fine...but it still refuses to work...

the onboard card has never caused me any problems in the past and has never been updated or uninstalled.

DxDiag sound tests don't prove much. It could be working fine in the tests, but in some games it could not work at all. Mostly dependant on the drivers, but apparently this is a different issue.

Oh well, I don't know what else you might try, sorry

The only thing that i can think of is to reinstall windows again because it could be a totally useless installation...but thats the only thing i can think of.

Did you install drivers to sound card or you just let Windows to use it own's drivers? My LFS was REALLY slow when I used original drivers from Asus(I have CMI9880). When I reinstalled WinXP with SP2, they swapped after the driver installation without asking original driver with their's own and LFS run fine now. I also tried to set back manually original driver --> big performance drop... so if you are using windows drivers, try to use original and on another way... just try to play with drivers a little, windows is a beast(said someone on this forum) and it can make changes in it's configuration without asking you...

I looked on your dxdiag report amd I got an idea. If you cannot mess with drivers(windows doesn't have anyone or there is no new available), try to disable hardware acceleration in DXDIAG. .... well, try to do this BEFORE you will start experiments with drivers.... it may save you a lot of time. AC97 isn't a real sound card, as so as your graphic card is onboard and it can't provide real HW acceleration at all(correct me someone if I am wrong).

BTW, how is your performance like? Radeon7000 sucks... this dog :dogrun: is faster that it...

:rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes:

do you have anything nice to say about anything???

and windows doesnt have "its own drivers" they are drivers given to windows by manufacturers so that they dont have to give away the drivers with their hardware...

and you should know that the ac97 is one of the sound cards that windows xp doesnt have the drivers for.

also windows is only a beast if you treat it like one...altho i am not saying windows is perfect there are alot of things that need sorted on it but in the words of my software development lecturer "treat your machine with respect and it wont bite you in the arse"



also thanks for your comment on the radeon7000...but i hope your driving skills are better than your reading/writing skills.....because i have a radeon7000 IGP and no the dog is not faster than it...because i believe that the dog would be generated by my graphics card...and only if it didnt show would it be faster than it...and if that is the case how come i can play lfs???

I know how it is with "windows drivers" but understand, there is a difference between drivers that you'll install from some package you've downloaded from manufacturer's site and between drivers shipped with windows. I don't know that WinXP doesn't have "own" drivers for AC97. (WinXP SP1 also didn't have drivers for my CMI9880, but SP2 version already have it, so I thought that there is a chance also in AC97 case).
Comparation of your ATI Radeon 7000 IGP with :dogrun: I meant like a joke, you know.... (as you certainly know, IGP means Integrated Graphics Processor or something like that == slow and using system RAM)
I hope you tried something I adviced you and you didn't spend all the time by writing me this cruel reply...... I just was trying to help you....

And about my driving skills.... wait a month. I'll got fast ADSL net and you will see(I'm waiting on ya on the net!!!!)

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...and if that is the case how come i can play lfs???

Of course you can play LFS, I saw S1 on much slower PC running in playable performance. I only asked because I wanna know how much can slow GPU affect performance in LFS S2....

If you like your R7K so much, sorry then