Doom III Sound Issues

[Gamingphreek]

If you venture outside the AT forums you will hear about the sound issues with the Soundstorm APU when playing DIII using suround sound speakers. What happens is you get a crackling and (seems like a frame rate hit) from the rear speakers. Also eventually the sound just gives out and goes away. Does anyone know how to fix this?

-Kevin

 

[Malladine]

Yep...edit the, um, I forget. Will be reinstalling the game soon. When I do, i'll remember and will let you know.

 

[Fern]

Hi Kevin,

Umm..not sure this qualifies as a "fix", I just used the console to bind a key to restart the sound. Sometimes I need to hit it often, other times hardly at all.

EDIT: The console command to restart sound is: s_restart or type this to bind ot to a key: bind "q" "s_restart"

 

[Gamingphreek]

Well that will restart the sound but it wont fix the crackling from the rear speakers. THanks though, no i will at least be able to solve one problem

-Kevin

 

[Malladine]

ok, found it.

Edit doom config file and change the line seta -r maxsoundspershader = "1" instead of "0"

 

[BFG10K]

Also make sure you're running the latest BIOS & chipset drivers for system. And sound drivers too.