[TM2] SOUND - Crackling sound/music (menus & ingame)

[Qwinttus]

All game sounds crackle, including music. This happens in menus and ingame in both TM2 canyon and stadium. Changing audio quality does not help, or enabling/disabling other sound options. I searched the forums if anyone had the same problem but did not find anyone having it.

I recorded short sample of this bug with music on and off (ingame and menus):
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/57070384/tm2_sound_bug.ogg

I´m using Windows XP with kx-sound drivers (http://kxproject.lugosoft.com/).
Everything else in the game works fine.

[GabrielM]

Ok, just one quick question, but are you using a 5.1 audio system ? Or only stereo ?

[Qwinttus]

Ok, just one quick question, but are you using a 5.1 audio system ? Or only stereo ?

Only stereo

[GabrielM]

Allright, you're not the first one experiencing troubles with the KX sound drivers, so that's an issue that will be looked at.
In the mean time, as a temporary solution, have you considered trying some other sound drivers ?
Correct me if i'm wrong but KX drivers comes from an independant project and are not the original drivers of your sound card. Have you tried with the original one ? Same issue ?

[Qwinttus]

Allright, you're not the first one experiencing troubles with the KX sound drivers, so that's an issue that will be looked at.
In the mean time, as a temporary solution, have you considered trying some other sound drivers ?
Correct me if i'm wrong but KX drivers comes from an independant project and are not the original drivers of your sound card. Have you tried with the original one ? Same issue ?

Yeah the kx-drivers are not default or manufacturer supported drivers. It´s meant mainly for Creative soundcards ie. Soundblasters (which I have). I haven´t tried the default ones. I rather suffer this little bug for the time being than change drivers since the kx ones have so much more features. The game is great and is still playable even with this minor thing.

[TMarc]

Such crackling usually happens when the audio buffers are too small, or if there are interrupts.

You can experience this with DAW software, using a ASIO driver and reducing buffer size.
Or with a MP3 etc. player software where you also can tweak the buffering size.

[YonCan]

Since the release of valley, I occasionally have crackling sound or music. I didn't change my sound settings while installing Valley. The crackling occurs in all envis of TM2, starting sometimes half an hour, sometimes an hour or so after I began playing. Sometimes it's only the music (then, if I draw the music slider to zero the other sound is clean), sometimes only the sound (here, reducing the sound slider to zero leaves the music clear). A restart of maniaplanet solves the problem (for some time). I'm using onboard sound, and I didn't change the sound hardware or software or the sound settings in the launcher when I installed Valley. Before Valley I had absolutely no crackling.

Any ideas? Some more specs required?

Thanks in advance!

[Alinoa]

Did you read the topic providing you with information about sound settings?

[YonCan]

Thanks for your answer. Yes, I know this topic. I have the two sliders at 10/10. When the crackling starts and I'm reducing the corresponding slider the sound/music with its crackling softens (as you would expect). If the music is affected, I can observe the crackling in the menus, too. I may add that until now it never occured that both parts (music and sound) were affected at the same time.

Oh, and of course, sound quality is set to "normal quality".

EDIT: Meanwhile I experienced crackling of sound and music at the same time, too.