GTA Vice City Question

[ISAslot]

When the people speak on the street, is it supposed to sound like they are speaking in a ally or something? It sounds echoy. I just want to see if this is normal or not.

...A bit off topic, but has anyone found the beach ball? It's 😎

 

[caboob]

so what are you supposed to do with the beach ball. BTW, I didnt notice anything unusual about the sound of the Vice City pedestrians.

 

[ISAslot]

Kick it around?

It's just cool that they would add something so pointless.

I wonder if there are any known issues with onboard nforce audio and GTA:VC. I haven't come across any reference to it from web searches, and the problem could be the audio drivers because I have also had the sound effects get echoy when using one of the enviromental sound settings, even though it was a setting that had no echo.

 

[BoomAM]

A similar thing happens to me on my Audigy, when i quit some games, all my sound goes echoy and i have to reset to enviroment thing in the audigy sound options.
For Vice City, though, change the sound driver. That might help, alot of my sound related probs in GTA3/VC have been fixed by changing the sound driver.

 

[BatmanNate]

Originally posted by: caboob
so what are you supposed to do with the beach ball. BTW, I didnt notice anything unusual about the sound of the Vice City pedestrians.

Bounce it on your head. If you do it enough times successively, it adds a perk in your stats.

 

[AnMig]

I kicked the ball a couple of times after boinking a hooker at the beach (purely for health reasons) and it disappeared after 3-4 kicks.





Any way to enable force feedback in this game? (cordless logitech wingman rumble pad)

peace

 

[ISAslot]

I found a fix for my audio problems!

I set the sound hardware acceleration down a notch.

Sound is now better than ever. 😀

 

[DarkKnight]

actually the echoying sound comes from using EAX. To fix the problem just choose another sound mode. BTW, taking the hardware acceleration down only disabled EAX support (if u dont believe me, try to select EAx with the acceleration a notch down). I putting hardware acceleration at full and just choose another sound mode.

 

[ISAslot]

What is the Sound mode? where is it changed at?

 

[BoomAM]

To change the sound mode in VC or GTA3, go to the sound options, and there is an option you can change there. The default is auto-detect, i think.

 

[lozina]

While on this topic: does vice city have any persistence in what happens during game or is it like GTA 3 where car accidents and carnage disappears as soon as you turn your back? I wish that stuff would stay on the map longer so I can litter a city with burnign wreckage and mayhem

 

[ISAslot]

Originally posted by: lozina
While on this topic: does vice city have any persistence in what happens during game or is it like GTA 3 where car accidents and carnage disappears as soon as you turn your back? I wish that stuff would stay on the map longer so I can litter a city with burnign wreckage and mayhem

It does stay for a little while. But it still disappears.

If you leave a car somewhere (non distroyed) you can usually go back for it, though.

 

[ISAslot]

Originally posted by: BoomAM
To change the sound mode in VC or GTA3, go to the sound options, and there is an option you can change there. The default is auto-detect, i think.

ah ok, i'll try that.

 

[Harabecw]

On a related VC problem, when I drive around town pretty fast (I only use bikes...mostly the Valkyrie) I always end up seeing places with missing textures etc. which get loaded after a few seconds then the place looks right. any idea how to fix this?

 

[ObiDon]

Originally posted by: Harabecw
On a related VC problem, when I drive around town pretty fast (I only use bikes...mostly the Valkyrie) I always end up seeing places with missing textures etc. which get loaded after a few seconds then the place looks right. any idea how to fix this?

I think running it in win98 compatibility mode will do the trick...

 

[AnMig]

anybody got an answer to my forcefeedback question?

does the game support it?

 

[BoomAM]

Originally posted by: ObiDon

Originally posted by: Harabecw
On a related VC problem, when I drive around town pretty fast (I only use bikes...mostly the Valkyrie) I always end up seeing places with missing textures etc. which get loaded after a few seconds then the place looks right. any idea how to fix this?

I think running it in win98 compatibility mode will do the trick...

Or putting the frame limiter on.