On Wed, 2005-08-31 at 16:06 -0400, Rudolph Pienaar wrote:
> On Wednesday 31 August 2005 14:55, Anubis wrote:
> > Seriously?
> 
> Yes - seriously. At least for me on this box. R3000Z with 1GB, 1920x1600 
> display, 64MB GeForce Go. Perhaps the NVidia driver under XP behaved 
> differently on this hardware (?) - although I guess that's unlikely. Maybe I 
> should have tried a different driver (which I think I did)?
> 
> I just had terrible choppy sound that only went away when I dialed all the 
> video options down to their minimums. I suspect some DMA conflict perhaps? 
> The *video* seemed fine at higher resolutions - just the sound ruined it all.
> I tried different sound drivers, I even went so far as to buy an external USB 
> sound card - no joy. Same choppy sound no matter what. Come to think of it, I 
> got the same sound issues with EA Games "Return of the King".
> 
> Given all this, I was not at all expecting Cedega to work, so I was (quite 
> pleasantly) surprised when not only did it work, but it resulted in a 
> measurably better playing experience.

A lot of people had choppy sound problems in HL-2.  I've read theories
on why but I don't know if anyone ever found out the reason for sure.
Valve probably screwed up the DirectSound programming somewhere.  I know
that the problem went away a month or two after release.
-- 
Zan Lynx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

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