Limited Sound?

[Castellon]

Make sure you have updated your operating system icluding DrirectX, and video audio card drivers.
Also try the following:
1) Rename the AVI folder to AVI_back
2) Set the color depth to 16BIT
3) Turn off everything in the background like E-mail/ICQ/Messenger, Virus protection and everything in the system tray beside the clock.

 

[Castellon]

Please run a DirectX Diagnostic:
Start menu –Run - then type Dxdiag, then select each tab across the top of the window, and run the tests on each tab. Then select “Save All Information” button in the lower right of the window. This will bring up a dialog box to allow you to select a name for the file where the information will be saved. You can save it right on the desktop as this will make it easy to find. Then copy the contents of that file from the start to the heading that says “DirectX components” then paste what you have copied into a post in this thread.

 

[Castellon]

Check for a sound card driver update, yours is 4 years old.

You can aslo decrease the acceleration of your sound card one notch at a time and see if that helps.
You can do that on the sound tab in the Dxdiag program.

 

[Castellon]

Yup the best thing is to try different notches on the acceleration slider.

 

[Castellon]

Some times you install some trial software or something you forget about and it interferes.

Let me know if the reinstall make a difference.

 

[Castellon]

Okay I thought you had meant that you were reinstalling Windows.
Keep me updated.

 

[Castellon]

I don't understand why is it you had multiple EU2 copies?

 

[Castellon]

I don't understand why you would have some sound effects and not others.
Are you sure you have nothing running in the background.

 

[Castellon]

I thought of that but reducing the acceleration has worked to cure the problem for some and it only happens to him for some sounds.

 

[Castellon]

Great!