Larian Studios Forums Divine Divinity (English) Technical Problems sound

when i play on DD the sound keeps going off and doesnt come back on again. The only way to get the sound back is to quit the game and start again, fro, either a load or a new game. Any clue how to fix this?

Hi,

Did you try out the following? (mentioned in the Technical Support FAQ)

1) Problem: No sound or strange artifacts while the sound is playing
This problem definitely occurs with older SB Live drivers and the solution is simply to get the latest drivers. On some systems, this problem got solved by turning the windows hardware acceleration of the sound driver down by one notch.

In this thread Sound anamalies somebody solved the problem through installing DirectX 9.0a and disabling the hardware support completely.
Don't know if it will help in your case, but if I were you, I would first try to turn the windows hardware acceleration down by one notch, like mentioned above.

*MOD* Which patch version did you apply?

i have the latest patch

Are my suggestions listed above not helping you?

Can you please give me the following information:

Which operating system, which service packs, additions, with/without Admin rights?

Size of RAM

Graphics card and driver version
additional hardware - driver versions
additional software running in the background (e.g. virtual drives? Anti virus programs, Internet, Firewall etc?)

Sound card and driver version

Size of swap file (regulated by OS or by fix value you put in?)

Game version and patch (e. g. clean install 1.029 + 1.033 or 1.029 + 1.032 + 1.033 later on?)
size of partition/hard drive, free space left

DirectX version

colour depth 16 bit or 32 bit?

additionals: have you used a fix download before (Raze's zip files eg.), used the hex editor, No-CD-Crack, Zakaron's game editor etc?
exact description of the problem you are encountering