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Title: New problem yay...
Post by: 13uRneR on 2005-01-27 04:57:57

I have just installed Final Fantasy 7 on yet another system.... this time it is 1.8 Ghz, ASUS Radeon 9600 se, ALC650 (on board sound) and when I try to run the game the sound skips and performance is slow on any setting, and when the game is minimized, the sound returns to normal until I go back into the game.... (im guessing video card issue...) I have tried many, MANY fixes and patches, nothing seems to work, and all my drivers are up to date


any ideas?

Title: New problem yay...
Post by: EmperorSteele on 2005-01-27 05:25:20

Have you tried using ff7config to adjust which sound device ff7 uses to play music and sounds?

Title: New problem yay...
Post by: 13uRneR on 2005-01-27 19:32:33

yup, i only have one possibility for sound fx, and for music i have tried using my piano with midi cables, and all of them skip, im wondering if its the way the ASUS radeon is programmed...

Title: New problem yay...
Post by: EmperorSteele on 2005-01-27 19:51:52

hmmm...

Are you SURE the drivers on that thing are updated?  Try checking out thier website.  And maybe try installing the yamaha drivers that come with ff7, see if that does anything.

Title: New problem yay...
Post by: Threesixty on 2005-01-27 20:53:11

It's probably an Audio Codec conflict. Only way to fix that is to unload/remove all the Audio Codecs..... But I only know how to do it on Win98SE, I have yet upgraded to XP. IN Win98 after unloading all of them... You didn't have to do anything. Windows seems to reload them automaticly. They were located in Control Panel under Multimedia on the last Tab, for Win98. I doubt they are in the same place for WinXP... Don't even know if XP will reload them automaticly.

I do plan to move to XP, soon.... As soon as the prices for the newer PCI-Express Motherboards for AMD go down and become more available.

Title: New problem yay...
Post by: 13uRneR on 2005-01-29 15:32:16

Good news, those motherboards are dropping their prices faster every month (Hyperthreaded is coming into light more and more.)

And about the audio codecs, there are a couple of way's to get to them

1: device manager
2: control panel --> sounds and audio devices

I checked no, conflics nothing... but... I was wondering... Is anyone using: AC3filter   ?

Title: New problem yay...
Post by: DarkestDream on 2005-01-29 15:41:33

Quote from: 13uRneR

Good news, those motherboards are dropping their prices faster every month (Hyperthreaded is coming into light more and more.)

and AMD is too

Title: New problem yay...
Post by: Srethron Askvelhtnod on 2005-02-03 06:11:09

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hen I try to run the game the sound skips and performance is slow on any setting, and when the game is minimized, the sound returns to normal until I go back into the game.

I had a similar problem on a Win95 machine wayyy back in the day. It turned out to be a bizarre DirectX issue.