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Title: Sound Card?
Post by: Napper on 2005-10-04 17:07:25

What sound cards to you all run this game with? Has anyone using a creative SB live experienced cracking/popping sounds with the background music.

Title: Sound Card?
Post by: djzerious on 2005-10-05 02:10:41

Onboard soundcard here.

Title: Sound Card?
Post by: L. Spiro on 2005-10-05 02:35:58

My choice between Sound Blaster Live! (my old computer), Sound Blaster Audigy II Platinum (my old computer), Sound Blaster AWE 32 (my old computer’s onboard card [yes, my old computer has 3 sound cards]), SoundMax Digital Audio (my work computer [yes, I play Final Fantasy VII on it]), or Realtek AC97 Audio (my notebook).

But I patch my MIDI through this (http://www.motifator.com/es/btm/es_btm_specs.php).
Which MIDI device are you using?
The Sound Blaster Live! is known for having a fairly low-quality converter which produces static and pops especially with low-decibal noises.
It has been so long since I used the Sound Blaster Live! at all, and a long time since I used any soundcard’s MIDI devices.
Try changing the MIDI device.
The Yamaha XG drivers run through your processor to create special effects which causes latency, but also increases the amount of static and could possibly produce the pops you hear.
Also try turning down system volumes and/or the game’s volume.


L. Spiro

Title: Sound Card?
Post by: Napper on 2005-10-05 14:01:22

Im actaully using the music patch(PSX music).But with or without using the patch either way i get popping/crackling.

I want to get a new card maybe a Sonic Fury(supposed to be like santaCruz) but i have a dell computer.Does anyone know if you can switch the sound cards in Dell PCs to Sound cards that arnt manufactured by Dell themselves.Eg to upgrade ram you have to buy Dell ram

Title: Sound Card?
Post by: Aaron on 2005-10-05 16:46:28

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I want to get a new card maybe a Sonic Fury(supposed to be like santaCruz) but i have a dell computer.Does anyone know if you can switch the sound cards in Dell PCs to Sound cards that arnt manufactured by Dell themselves.Eg to upgrade ram you have to buy Dell ram

Not true about the RAM — You can get other brands of RAM, it will work fine as long as it is the right kind (which of course, depends on your system).  I have done it lots of times with Dell machines.

You should be able to use any PCI sound card provided that you have a free PCI slot.

Title: Sound Card?
Post by: odo324 on 2005-10-06 01:08:05

Ya, I have the same card in my -only- PC.

Crackling? I think so, but not a whole lot. Its been a while since I've played 7. I didn't really have this problem until I upgraded my driver. No problems with FF8 tho.

Creative's driver support is simply awful. For a temp-solution/workaround... try down-grading your card's driver.

Title: Sound Card?
Post by: Skillster/RedSarg99 on 2005-10-06 05:16:03

Live and even Audigy cards are horrid for this
check there isnt anything legacy that is hogging PCI bandwidth and also check to see if the IRQs are not being man handled by too many other components.
An alternative is to search google for NGO optimised gaming drivers for Live! and Audigy cards, or even look for the backward compatible Audigy4 drivers that are edited to work with Live and Audigy 1/2/ZS
Or just turn down the hardware acceleration and let the CPU pick up more work, I am sure that 2.0+Ghz processor needs more that FF7 to push it to the limit