Medieval Total War sound problems

[Constipated_Vigilante]

Lately, I've been having trouble with the sound in Medieval: Total War. This is very odd, as I haven't changed anything with my system since November, and the most recent saves before my August ones are from April. The sound only becomes distorted when I go into a realtime battle, then it just becomes fuzzy and...distorted. I'm using the AC '97 Combo Drivers for my onboard sound, as you can see in my sig. Might be a problem with my speakers, the adapter just died and my dad had to wire me a new one with slightly lower power input. Although my other games and music sound fine. Any ideas?

[Triple-F]

Keep a fire extinguisher handy.

It’s been years since I played that, but I do remember there could be problems with sound. I think (but probably wrong) that it happened the further you went into the game and had something to do with memory of all things, though to be honest it was so long ago, the problems more to do with my memory.

[Constipated_Vigilante]

Can't be memory. The game actually runs smoothly all the time, the sound just gets distorted. And it sounds like you had a memory leak if it's the further you went into it. The sound just goes crappy all of a sudden in battles for me.

[Jethro Smiles]

Ok have you tried reinstalling, or analysing your HD to see if some of those files have become fragmented, buying a sound card and not using the mobo 1

[pixel]

Ok have you tried reinstalling, or analysing your HD to see if some of those files have become fragmented, buying a sound card and not using the mobo 1

buying a sound card is a bit of an excessive test!

Try updating/reinstalling your sound drivers and reinstalling the game.

Also, if it is a memory leak.....it should not occur on a new game.....so try a new game and see how it plays

[Constipated_Vigilante]

Well, I am getting a new Soundcard for my birthday, but that's at the end of November...maybe I'll back up the saves and reinstall.

[Constipated_Vigilante]

I just tried a tutorial, and sound was affected there too. It was a battle, mind. I guess I'll backup and reinstall...

[Constipated_Vigilante]

I saw a repair function, and since I'm assuming this will do the same as a reinstall, I did that, and the sound is still off.

[Tsar_of_Cows]

You could try the official forums... but I asked there and they were as much use as an aircraft carrier with no runway.

[Jethro Smiles]

Ok have you tried reinstalling, or analysing your HD to see if some of those files have become fragmented, buying a sound card and not using the mobo 1

buying a sound card is a bit of an excessive test!

Why, motherboard soundcards are generally poor with drivers that conflict more than separate soundcards, plus how hard is it to borrow a mates soundcard and try that

[Apocholypse]

Lately, I've been having trouble with the sound in Medieval: Total War. This is very odd, as I haven't changed anything with my system since November, and the most recent saves before my August ones are from April. The sound only becomes distorted when I go into a realtime battle, then it just becomes fuzzy and...distorted. I'm using the AC '97 Combo Drivers for my onboard sound, as you can see in my sig. Might be a problem with my speakers, the adapter just died and my dad had to wire me a new one with slightly lower power input. Although my other games and music sound fine. Any ideas?

Yup, i had problem like that, when the speakers are run for long times on weeks on end they go horrible. They an't broaken but it will take a long time for them to recover, take weeks at least.

So, fed up with this prob, i got some gd Labtec speakers and have no probs.

[Constipated_Vigilante]

Lately, I've been having trouble with the sound in Medieval: Total War. This is very odd, as I haven't changed anything with my system since November, and the most recent saves before my August ones are from April. The sound only becomes distorted when I go into a realtime battle, then it just becomes fuzzy and...distorted. I'm using the AC '97 Combo Drivers for my onboard sound, as you can see in my sig. Might be a problem with my speakers, the adapter just died and my dad had to wire me a new one with slightly lower power input. Although my other games and music sound fine. Any ideas?

Yup, i had problem like that, when the speakers are run for long times on weeks on end they go horrible. They an't broaken but it will take a long time for them to recover, take weeks at least.

So, fed up with this prob, i got some gd Labtec speakers and have no probs.

These are Labtec speakers...