I cannot post in the tech forum, so you can move this if you like.

Saigon · Post by **Saigon** » Thu, 12. Jan 06, 18:08

I received X3 for Christmas patched it up to 1.3 and have now completed the story missions. I am going to wait for further patches before I continue playing.

While I am waiting I wish to continue playing X2 which is the main reason I bought X3. When I loaded X2 on my new pc I have some horrible buzzing sounds when the game reads from the hard disk. For example when I go through a gate and it loads the next sector, if I skip the intro movie and wait for the menu to come up and while it loads my saves.

I wonder if anyone has had this problem and could kindly tell me how to solve it, all other aspects of the game are great and with my new pc runs so much faster.

Thanks in advance
Saigon

AMD Athlon 3700 64bit
Gigabyte GA-k8nf-9 motherboard with Nividia nforce 4 chipset
1 Gig ram
GeForce 7800GT 256mb graphics card

Sorry to post here but my profile tells me I cant post in the technical help forum.

esd · Post by **esd** » Thu, 12. Jan 06, 18:17

You should be able to post in technical support, as you've registered your game. Try PM'ing an admin for some help.

In the mean-time, I'll shunt this over for you.

Al · Post by Al » Thu, 12. Jan 06, 18:22

Is it perhaps the X2 technical forum the OP cant post in?

Saigon · Post by **Saigon** » Thu, 12. Jan 06, 18:22

Thanks esd

Since posting I have changed my profile and entered my X3 registration code I previously only had my X2 code in Im ok now.

Thanks for moving the post for me.

Saigon

Post by **CBJ** » Thu, 12. Jan 06, 18:23

I've checked your account and cannot see any reason why you shouldn't be able to post in Tech Support.

Saigon · Post by **Saigon** » Thu, 12. Jan 06, 18:44

CBJ

I tried to post in X3 Tech help in Error.

I have since the post entered my X3 code into my profile and is now ok.

I realise now that I should have posted in X2 technical help.

Sorry to be a pain in the butt, would you be able to move it or should I post again.

Thanks
Saigon

Post by **CBJ** » Thu, 12. Jan 06, 22:09

Moved again. Anyway, after all that, let's get back to your problem.

If the buzzing sounds seem to be coming from the PC itself then I would suggest backing up your data pronto as your hard disk is probably on its way out.

If it is coming from the speaker then you have something seriously strange going on with your sound. I would start by updating your sound drivers, especially if it is on-board sound. If it isn't on-board sound then you might like to consider moving the sound card to a different slot. I have heard of cases where interference on the PCI channel caused strange noises like this.

Saigon · Post by **Saigon** » Thu, 12. Jan 06, 23:06

CBJ

I would be very surprised if anything is on the way out as the pc was only assembled from brand new parts less than two weeks ago. It may be that some parts are faulty but I have had no other problems with any other games.

I have already checked my drivers in case the ones packaged with the parts were not the latest and they were ok.

The game plays lovely until it reads from the harddrive and sounds like static interference occur (from the speakers). I do have realtek onboard sound.

Thanks for your advice, this is not a major problem just irritating as I have spent a lot of money building a new pc and most of my old games run better on my old pc.

Saigon

Saigon · Post by **Saigon** » Sat, 14. Jan 06, 13:17

Just to let you know, in case anyone else has a problem.

I was not aware that if you try to update drivers within windows that it only checks microsoft sites. I have downloaded a new driver directly from the gigabyte site and reinstalled X2 this seems to have cured my problems.

Thanks for the advice and sorry for posting in the wrong forum.

Saigon

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I cannot post in the tech forum, so you can move this if you like.

I cannot post in the tech forum, so you can move this if you like.