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Muddy sound all of a sudden from games
I have a four-year-old Win98 PC that I use more for email, word
processing, than anything else, but my kids use it to play simple, low-end computer games. A couple weeks ago, my son was trying to play an Atari "Thomas the Tank Engine Saves the Day" game, and it would lock the computer up every time it was launched. I tracked the error message down to being related to the sound card. I was able to download newer drivers for my SoundBlaster card than the 1999 drivers that had come on the computer. Game still didn't work though, so I gave up on that. Since that time, the kids have complained about muddy, fuzzy sound on another game, Knowledge Adventure's Jump Start Explorer. I'm looking for some simple suggestions about what might be wrong. The knowledge base on the jumpstart.com web site had nothing that worked. All other audio sounds fine on the computer. That includes playing CDs, MP3 files, other games, both older and newer than the Jump Start game. I've run dxdiag and the sound card checks out fine. I've uninstalled the Jump Start game and reinstalled it. I've cleaned the CD that the game is on. The sound remains muddy. My kids can live, and boy can I certainly live, without clean sound on their Jump Start Explorer game. But it's bugging me that this problem seemingly just suddenly appeared, and it seems to be a simple one, and I can't come close to cracking it. Help! (?) |
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"timmons" wrote in message ... I have a four-year-old Win98 PC that I use more for email, word processing, than anything else, but my kids use it to play simple, low-end computer games. A couple weeks ago, my son was trying to play an Atari "Thomas the Tank Engine Saves the Day" game, and it would lock the computer up every time it was launched. I tracked the error message down to being related to the sound card. I was able to download newer drivers for my SoundBlaster card than the 1999 drivers that had come on the computer. Game still didn't work though, so I gave up on that. Since that time, the kids have complained about muddy, fuzzy sound on another game, Knowledge Adventure's Jump Start Explorer. I'm looking for some simple suggestions about what might be wrong. The knowledge base on the jumpstart.com web site had nothing that worked. All other audio sounds fine on the computer. That includes playing CDs, MP3 files, other games, both older and newer than the Jump Start game. I've run dxdiag and the sound card checks out fine. I've uninstalled the Jump Start game and reinstalled it. I've cleaned the CD that the game is on. The sound remains muddy. My kids can live, and boy can I certainly live, without clean sound on their Jump Start Explorer game. But it's bugging me that this problem seemingly just suddenly appeared, and it seems to be a simple one, and I can't come close to cracking it. Help! (?) Bad CD |
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timmons wrote:
snip Since that time, the kids have complained about muddy, fuzzy sound on another game, Knowledge Adventure's Jump Start Explorer. snip If I read your message correctly, the fuzzy sound for this game started with a change of drivers for the sound card. That is, the sound for this game was good with the old driver and bad with the new one. The obvious question is does the sound improve back to normal when the original driver is re-installed? If that is the case, you know what to do. In general, you may have installed a driver that does not exactly match your sound card. Or, you may not have set all the functions (within your driver) for the sound card. Without the details specific to your model card and the drivers obtained from Creative, you won't get any good answers. |
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On Fri, 02 Jul 2004 02:08:12 GMT As another one bit the dust timmons
wrote : I have a four-year-old Win98 PC that I use more for email, word processing, than anything else, but my kids use it to play simple, low-end computer games. A couple weeks ago, my son was trying to play an Atari "Thomas the Tank Engine Saves the Day" game, and it would lock the computer up every time it was launched. I tracked the error message down to being related to the sound card. I was able to download newer drivers for my SoundBlaster card than the 1999 drivers that had come on the computer. Game still didn't work though, so I gave up on that. Since that time, the kids have complained about muddy, fuzzy sound on another game, Knowledge Adventure's Jump Start Explorer. I'm looking for some simple suggestions about what might be wrong. The knowledge base on the jumpstart.com web site had nothing that worked. All other audio sounds fine on the computer. That includes playing CDs, MP3 files, other games, both older and newer than the Jump Start game. I've run dxdiag and the sound card checks out fine. I've uninstalled the Jump Start game and reinstalled it. I've cleaned the CD that the game is on. The sound remains muddy. My kids can live, and boy can I certainly live, without clean sound on their Jump Start Explorer game. But it's bugging me that this problem seemingly just suddenly appeared, and it seems to be a simple one, and I can't come close to cracking it. Help! (?) Device Manager problem. Click here, http://www.geocities.com/sheppola/drivers.html HTH -- Free Windows/PC help, http://www.geocities.com/sheppola/trouble.html email shepATpartyheld.de Free songs to download and,"BURN" :O) http://www.soundclick.com/bands/8/nomessiahsmusic.htm |
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, timmons wrote: I have a four-year-old Win98 PC that I use more for email, word processing, than anything else, but my kids use it to play simple, low-end computer games. A couple weeks ago, my son was trying to play an Atari "Thomas the Tank Engine Saves the Day" game, and it would lock the computer up every time it was launched. I tracked the error message down to being related to the sound card. I was able to download newer drivers for my SoundBlaster card than the 1999 drivers that had come on the computer. Game still didn't work though, so I gave up on that. Since that time, the kids have complained about muddy, fuzzy sound on another game, Knowledge Adventure's Jump Start Explorer. I'm looking for some simple suggestions about what might be wrong. The knowledge base on the jumpstart.com web site had nothing that worked. All other audio sounds fine on the computer. That includes playing CDs, MP3 files, other games, both older and newer than the Jump Start game. I've run dxdiag and the sound card checks out fine. I've uninstalled the Jump Start game and reinstalled it. I've cleaned the CD that the game is on. The sound remains muddy. My kids can live, and boy can I certainly live, without clean sound on their Jump Start Explorer game. But it's bugging me that this problem seemingly just suddenly appeared, and it seems to be a simple one, and I can't come close to cracking it. Help! (?) I think I fixed the problem. I got the driver I'd mentioned above from some web site that has a library of drivers on it. This time, I went to the Creative Labs site, searched for my SoundBlaster card (didn't see an exact match; I had a somethingorother 64V; all they had was somethingorother64), and downloaded and installed the recommended driver for that. All other sound remains fine on my computer including Direct Sound. But the Jump Start Explorer game no longer sounds muddy. Sorry by the way for my lack of specific information here; I'm posting from my work computer and the problems are on my home computer. If there are other questions, I'll email the specific details to myself next time before I post! |
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