jpd said:
The choppy sound is indeed interesting. That's most likely caused by the sound queues running empty (thus producing an interrupt to get a new chunk of sound data to play), and the interrupts are still blocked by the video board (either rendering or using the bus for data transfers).
Interesting, indeed.
So the beta-drivers might be blocking the sound? Could be.
Although it *is* the first game I noticed this with.
Even if it's said case, is EU3 handling sound different than other games?
Do you, by any chance, have the possibility to boot into Windows XP on this system, for comparison reasons?
Ironically I ditched XP a week ago.
I'll see if I've got another hard drive lying around to put XP on, but it'll take a few days until I've got time to set it up.
I'll try to get back to this though.
Now, you say you run on Vista. Currently, there are no finished Vista drivers for either ATI or NVidia cards (both companies are still working on them), and with the latest unofficial ones, the graphics performance is upto 50% (depending on color depth, screen resolution and other graphical settings) worse than their Windows XP counterparts.
I'm aware of that, although I must say that it's more in the 80-90%range in my case (I used Oblivion to benchmark it). And I'm not thát worried about the graphics.
(And silly nvidia calls their 97.46-drivers RTM. Silly, silly nvidia
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Mosheer Rommel said:
Hope you're right. Although with the demo released so close to the final release date, I'm guessing that this is what we're going to get come 23rd Jan. Personally I'm delaying my purchase until I know whether or not I can actually run this game.
Mind you, a demo isn't made overnight, so I reckon it's a built from a few weeks back. At least that's the case with most demo's which are released prior to the full version.
