Sound problem in ManiaPlanet and games.[fixed]

[swissdan]

Since I installed Valley on ManiaPlanet, I have a big sound problem on all screens on ManiaPlanet and during all the games (Stadium2, Canyon2 and Valley). The sound is very bad and choppy and is like there is an eccho.
I tried to update the driver of my soundcard. I tried to put the sound quality "low" on the launcher, but no fix.
I have no problems with the graphics and I have no sound problem on other applications.
I have no problems with older TM games (for example TmNationsForever).
I have Windows XP.
Daniel

[metal-dad]

Same here, but only in Canyon and Stadium and only with the car sound. In Valley everything works fine. Tried every possible setting I could find. In Canyon and Stadium the engine sound is much softer. Even with standard cars. When I use custom cars with custom sound, they work fine in Valley, but are or hard to hear or not there at all in Canyon/Stadium (other sounds like drifting work fine). And because there's one setting for all the titles, imo it should work the same in all titles. Correct me if I'm wrong...

[TMarc]

The basic / default setting is indeed the same for all titles
But since the latest updates we are now able to save different settings, e.g. one for TrackMania and one for ShootMania.

I recommend to make a backup and then to delete the file Default.SystemConfig.Gbx, then at the next start the game will create this file again.
Set Audio to normal afterwards.

Do you have any audio chat application running at the same time?
Or music playing in the background (outside of the game)?
Which is the default sound device?

[metal-dad]

Deleted Default.SystemConfig, restarted the game, set everything back to default, problem stays the same. Very low car sounds in Canyon/Stadium, perfect sound in Valley. No audio chat software in use. Still don't understand why. If there's the same sound engine for all three (or four, but didn't play SM for a while) TM titles, everything set to default, in every title driving the default title car, how it's possible that there's poor engine sound in Canyon/Stadium and perfect sound in Valley... It all worked perfect before Valley... Ok, some engine problems with custom Canyon car sounds in Stadium, but the defaults always worked. And when I deleted the engine folder from the car's zip file, the defaults were used properly. Looks like I messed up the system defaults for Canyon/Stadium, but I honestly don't know where I can find them, let alone messing them up...

[metal-dad]

I guess I solved my sound problem. There used to be a folder called "Vehicles" in \Skins. Inside that folder there were the subfolders \CanyonCar and \StadiumCar (I think. It's been a while since I saw the original state it was in back in the old days ).
At some point there was this new folder in \Skins called \Models. Inside there were the same subfolders as well als \ArenaPlayer (so maybe Storm did the damage???). In the beginning we copied all our custom carskins to both \Skins\Vehicles\...Car and \Skins\Models\...Car. Because after a while this seemed silly to do, I tried to deleted \Skins\Vehicles. All the cars worked fine. Didn't have any sound problems in the beginning.

But...

In order to do some twisted things , I just re-created that \Skins\Vehicles folder and copied all the custom car folders from \Skins\Models to \Skins\Vehicles. So just like it used to be. And guess what: it worked! All carsounds work in all titles! Even the default carsounds sound louder than before. Don't know why that is, but hey, who cares...

[swissdan]

I tried to delete the file default.SystemConfig.Gbx and restart the game, but the problem is still there.
I have no audio chat application running at the same time and no other music application on the background. Just the game.
My default sound device is SigmaTel Audio High Definition (Dell Dimension 5150).
Graphic card is Nvidia GeForce GT 430.

[swissdan]

I updated the graphic card driver...not better.

[TMarc]

Please upload your actual configuration file (Default.SystemConfig.Gbx),
or post a screenshot of your audio settings page.

Disable HRTF, EFX, Dynamic Mix, Doppler. Keep quality to normal.
Make sure your soundcards driver panel is not adding some constant effects like hall.

[swissdan]

It is OK now! It works fine again. But I don't know exactly why

Here are my latest steps:
I uninstalled my audio driver and restarted my PC ==> Not better.
I disabled HRTF, EFX, Dynamic Mix, Doppler. ==> Not better.
In the audio properties of my soundcard, I putted the material acceleration to "none" and the "conversion rate" to the lowest ==> Not better.
In the audio properties of my soundcard, I putted the material acceleration to "maximum" and the "conversion rate" to maximum (like it was before)==> IT WORKS!!!

Then I enabled again HRTF, EFX, Dynamic Mix, Doppler ==> still working!

Thanks to you TMarc!

(I don't know if the technical words are correct because my PC is in french)

[TMarc]

Cool you got it working again, and thanks for the details!
If you like, you can write the details in French in the French subforum