Audio Issues - sometimes audio does not play
by torque2a · in Technical Issues · 01/17/2007 (3:07 pm) · 6 replies
Any assistance would be appreciated!!! Thanks in advance.
Here's the summary of the problem:
When the game loads, all sounds work fine. As time goes by however, some sounds sometimes don't play, seemingly at random. This gets worse the longer the game is running until eventually it's rare that any play.
Techy stuff:
The only function I'm using is alxPlay. On the random failures it doesn't give me the error return of "0".
The sound card used is a Realtek High Definition Audio onboard an Asus motherboard. We've downloaded the latest drivers from realtek with no change.
To fix the problem I have tried both streaming and non-streaming audio, as well as creating a set of audio management functions which has had no effect on the problem. I've tried playing from the profile and from the handle as well as using multiple channels and rotating on each play. I have searched the forums for an answer but have not found one.
Here's the summary of the problem:
When the game loads, all sounds work fine. As time goes by however, some sounds sometimes don't play, seemingly at random. This gets worse the longer the game is running until eventually it's rare that any play.
Techy stuff:
The only function I'm using is alxPlay. On the random failures it doesn't give me the error return of "0".
The sound card used is a Realtek High Definition Audio onboard an Asus motherboard. We've downloaded the latest drivers from realtek with no change.
To fix the problem I have tried both streaming and non-streaming audio, as well as creating a set of audio management functions which has had no effect on the problem. I've tried playing from the profile and from the handle as well as using multiple channels and rotating on each play. I have searched the forums for an answer but have not found one.
#2
01/18/2007 (12:15 pm)
Please dont post the same question everywhere. One post is enough.
#3
01/18/2007 (2:20 pm)
Interesting response that lacks an answers to the problem I reported. I did not get a response with-in a month and being more then patient thus I tossed it up again. And it's not posted everywhere just in the specific forums in which such a post is permissible.
#4
Now isolated the problem to Intel Duo Core (multithreading) and OpenAL.
Any suggestions as I narrowed it down... same app works on regular Intel and non-Intel with same onboard audio. Thanks in advance for your further assistance.
01/18/2007 (11:46 pm)
Thanks Alienforce... After you thaw out read on:Now isolated the problem to Intel Duo Core (multithreading) and OpenAL.
Any suggestions as I narrowed it down... same app works on regular Intel and non-Intel with same onboard audio. Thanks in advance for your further assistance.
#5
i don't have any suggestions for your particular problem,
but i can say that you're way more likely to get the serious attention of folks around here if you don't spam the forums.
01/19/2007 (12:59 am)
Seriously dude - only post it once.i don't have any suggestions for your particular problem,
but i can say that you're way more likely to get the serious attention of folks around here if you don't spam the forums.
#6
While I appreciate your commentary and welcome such I was already adviced by an Alien to not multi-post to the respective forums that allow for such reporting like the bugs forum, audio tech issues forum and programming forum but in any case so not to waste anyones time I kept the topic the same and the message the same in these groups. Thanks again for your input and for seriously replicating Alien's message.
01/19/2007 (9:21 am)
Okay dude. I'll seriously consider such moving forward. For now and on a seriously note I need to get to the bottom of the multithreading audio issue that lingers onward and forward and I assume will affect a number of developers. While I appreciate your commentary and welcome such I was already adviced by an Alien to not multi-post to the respective forums that allow for such reporting like the bugs forum, audio tech issues forum and programming forum but in any case so not to waste anyones time I kept the topic the same and the message the same in these groups. Thanks again for your input and for seriously replicating Alien's message.
Torque Owner torque2a
Test with a Realtek HD sound device
When I run the latest version of Torque game builder, sounds are not working properly. Sometimes sounds play and other times they don't. It's intermittent.
I downloaded and installed the latest version of Realteks HD driver. The problem persisted.
I downloaded and copied to my game directory the latest OpenAL dll. The problem persisted.
Using a USB port, I plugged in an Edirol UA-25 external sound card and installed the latest driver. The problem was resolved.
So it seems there is an incompatibility issue between torque game builder and the Realtek HD sound device. We need to fix this ASAP.