Problems With The Sound

[USALeonHeart]

Obviously not the first to notice, but most of the soundtrack is missing and the sound has a tendency to cut and clip weirdly when you engage in combat, open doors etc, also just occasionally skips for no reason like in cutscene.

Has anyone developed a patch that brings the sound up to Playstation level glory? After patching up the rest of this buggy mess the only real problem is the sound.

[Raina Audron]

yeah, PC version´s sound is screwed up badly (I usually get infinite loops of certain sounds when playing) and there is no fix for it.. also no full ost there either - the best solution is to play the PS or DC version.

[Ilgaz]

Disabling game music somehow fixes sound issues such as doors, combat and environment sounds. However no background music makes it difficult to concentrate.

[Allard]

Try disabling the texture filtering, it actually helps. Also turn off Skype or any other program of such ilk, they caused a lot of problems for me.

[USALeonHeart]

Lol this is such a horrendous version of this game. Whatever tho I've got PS1 disc.

[Longshanks]

It honestly doesn't look like anything is a real fix for this. I just beat the game tonight through a long process of re-starting whenever the loop gets bad and hop-scotching to warp gates and saving. It's not ideal but I was able to enjoy it.

[loading]

Force Vertical Sync in your GPU settings. I would imagine the game would be forced to 30 fps natively seeing as it was on the PS2.

[Raina Audron]

Game can run at 60fps if you use SR1Hook.

[Das]

Originally posted by LAODNIG:

Force Vertical Sync in your GPU settings. I would imagine the game would be forced to 30 fps natively seeing as it was on the PS2.

thank you

[PlatyPunch]

When I start the game up I choose the primary display driver software mode under the select driver tab in the window that pops up when the game launches. So far that's fixed my audio issue

[Leland]

I've tried multiple combinations on the launch screen, and nothing I've selected seems to get the sound to stop freaking out. The best thing that has worked for me so far is forcing vertical sync on the game through Nvidia's settings, and that seems to have worked the longest before also crapping out. Still, I'm not trying to improve what's broken, but actually fix it.

This SR1Hook I keep reading about; I don't care about running the game at 60 FPS, because 30 is just fine for me. However, could that possibly fix the sound issue? If not, then I do have another question. Since I can't Shift+Tab to bring up the Steam Overlay to chat with my friends, I'm forced to Alt+Tab out of the game. Is it bad that I'm doing that?

[jimbobslimbob]

Correcting sound problems

I have seen many posts with people having issues with the sound on this game - and I was one of them. I tried numerous things suggested by others and none of them did the trick. Having recently managed to find some form of balance that "fixes" the issue (for me, at least), I thought I would share it here incase it worked for anyone else.

So, with the default Steam installation, I installed the Widescreen Mod (http://www.sendspace.com/file/b00fbz). This may or may not be relevant, but I thought it best I mentioned every modification I performed.

Secondly, I set the compatibility mode of the executable to "Windows Xp Service Pack 2". Any version of Windows less than that kept asking me for the CD when I started (which, of course, as a Steam installation, is utter rubbish).

Finally, when running the game, I set the video driver to "Software Mode" and turned off texture filtering. It may not look quite as pretty in-game after doing this - but it does make a big difference to the sound, in that it actually works!

Anyway, I hope this may prove useful. I don't know if this will work for everyone, but it cannot hurt to try. For myself, it means I can finally PLAY the game instead of messing around with restarts etc. whenever the sound plays up.

[Twilight Syphio]

Originally posted by jimbobslimbob:

Correcting sound problems

I have seen many posts with people having issues with the sound on this game - and I was one of them. I tried numerous things suggested by others and none of them did the trick. Having recently managed to find some form of balance that "fixes" the issue (for me, at least), I thought I would share it here incase it worked for anyone else.

So, with the default Steam installation, I installed the Widescreen Mod (http://www.sendspace.com/file/b00fbz). This may or may not be relevant, but I thought it best I mentioned every modification I performed.

Secondly, I set the compatibility mode of the executable to "Windows Xp Service Pack 2". Any version of Windows less than that kept asking me for the CD when I started (which, of course, as a Steam installation, is utter rubbish).

Finally, when running the game, I set the video driver to "Software Mode" and turned off texture filtering. It may not look quite as pretty in-game after doing this - but it does make a big difference to the sound, in that it actually works!

Anyway, I hope this may prove useful. I don't know if this will work for everyone, but it cannot hurt to try. For myself, it means I can finally PLAY the game instead of messing around with restarts etc. whenever the sound plays up.

Worked like a charm! Thanks!

[Harichi]

Originally posted by Raina Audron:

yeah, PC version´s sound is screwed up badly (I usually get infinite loops of certain sounds when playing) and there is no fix for it.. also no full ost there either - the best solution is to play the PS or DC version.

I have no problem with the sound.

[Blitzwin]

There's also a big problem with the speech from the characters. The speech is always clipping and sometimes cuts off entirely

[Aeiolus]

Where do you get this?