SoundBlaster Question for you Audiophiles

[McCloud_River_John]

I just upgraded to a SB Audigy card, and guess what? When I change views and go back to the cabview, either it silent or one or two sounds (bell / horn / air) are missing! I have directX 8.1, do you think I should turn to Bill Gates for support, since they have done such a good job so far....

Thoughts anyone?

John

[McCloud_River_John]

Disregard my post. I was able to go in and adjust a couple of things in windows. There are a couple of issues with this soundcard and MSTS.

[bowman]

Hi John
How did you manage to fix the problem with your Audigy Soundcard?
I've recently installed an Audigy Platinum and have the same problems as you have experienced. In addition, fine-lined rectangles appear on my cab view. My graphics card is an Asus Ge Force II Pro 64 Meg. I'd never experienced any probs until I installed the latest drivers from Creative.

Any help would be muchly appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

Richard

[McCloud_River_John]

Here is what I did:

1. Click on Start, Settings and then Control Panel
2. Double click on the Sounds and Multimedia icon
3. Click on the Audio tab and then the Advanced tab under the sound playback.
4. Click on the Performance tab and move the slide to the extreme left (Emulation)
5. Click OK until all the dialog boxes are closed.

Next reduce the sound hardware acceleration used by DirectX, a program component used by Train Simulator to play multimedia content.

1. Click Start and then Run
2. In the open box type Dxdiag and press Enter.
3. Navigate to the Sound tab under DirectX features mode the slider against Sound hardware acceleration to the left (No Acceleration)
4. Exit the DirectX tool by clicking the exit button.

This worked for me. (upgrade to DirectX8.1 too)

[KngtRider]

LAST EDITED ON Feb-18-02 AT 01:27PM (EST)[p]>Hi John
> How did you manage to
>fix the problem with your
>Audigy Soundcard?
> I've recently installed an Audigy
>Platinum and have the same
>problems as you have experienced.
>In addition, fine-lined rectangles appear
>on my cab view. My
>graphics card is an Asus
>Ge Force II Pro 64
>Meg. I'd never experienced any
>probs until I installed the
>latest drivers from Creative.
>
> Any help would be muchly
>appreciated.
>
>Thanks in advance.
>
>Richard

Audigy runs with MSTS fine, with any ver drivers(box cd 1.0 and latest) dx8 and 81,

if you are missing sound check the options in msts to number of sounds: high. I strongly recommend increase acceleration, msts relies heavily on ds3d streams. only decrease if if you have severe issues

the fine line rectangles in the cab are because of the
-nofiltercab switch , adding it to shortcut for msts makes the lines


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[RickCan]

I beg to differ Dominic. I also installed a new retail SB Audigy Gamer card in my P4 c/w ASUS P4T 768 MB RAMBUS, V8200 GForce3 deluxe video and Cambridge DTT3500 digital surround sound speakers. Did not get the sounds I was getting with the SB X-Gamer 5.1 until I turned off the hardware acceleration.

Richard

[slen]

I have an Audigy as well and, while I can't confirm having the same problem as you do, I experience some other sound-related issues which I'd like to find out if anyone else is experiencing. First one is that the sound of notches often get 'queued' and the notch sound is therefore be delayed for, say, 5 seconds after the event. Second one is I cannot hear level crossings from inside the cab - they sound fine in external view but inside I hear nothing.

[RickCan]

That problem with the delay for the throttle notch and headlight switch click is especially apparent when an activity has just been loaded and you make an independent brake application or release the automatic. It appears the simulator just has to go through its initial startup routine no matter if it is an Audigy or Live 5.1
As far as hearing the crossing sounds inside the cab MSTS has defaulted so you don't. You have to edit the crossing.sms file in the SOUND folder of each route that you want to modify by moving the "ExternalCam ()" statement from the "Deactivation (" section to the "Activation (" section. The quotes are only placed here for clarity and are not used when editing the file.
You will find the sections at the top of the file under ScalabiltyGroup( 3

Richard

[slen]

Thanks, however I found that "ExternalCam" was already in "Activation" on the original Marias and Marias 3 routes.

I throught there was an off chance you meant "CabCam", so I moved that to Activation, and that did in fact work. However, I lost the crossing sound in external view.

[RickCan]

Gees slen I must be getting senile. I swear I didn't have even one drink. You are absolutly right. It is CabCam that is moved to Activation. Don't understand why you don't get the crossing bell when in external view though.
I don't know what kind of a system you have except for the Audigy card. I have found with my system and the Audigy card if the hardware acceleration is set to Basic I have the most sounds in MSTS.
It also helped when I updated my Intel 850 chipset drivers for Win98. Had to revert back to the ATA hard disk drivers that came with the motherboard though. Symantec Speed Disk went belly up.

Richard

[scefhwil]

Slen,

You should have both CabView and ExternalView in the Activation bit. Move PasengerView up if you want to hear crossings in the key5 views as well. Finally check your syntax.