For People With No Sound in 1.2 With Vista

[ShadowX8001]

Re: For People With No Sound in 1.2 With Vista

Idk if this has been said but drop your hardware acceleration to 2 out of the 4 notches. that fixed audio problems for me in GTA4. just a thought

[Unclean009]

Re: For People With No Sound in 1.2 With Vista

I had to change my audio settings to make the sound work. Vista 64-bit here.

[Dimwit[WN]]

Re: For People With No Sound in 1.2 With Vista

Hi,
Dimwit from Warnuts here, I run the tech help forums on our clan site... And I regularly troll this site and many others as I chum the waters for fixes... lol.

I had to do this change, and figured it out on my own in the wee hours of the morning. I would like to make two points:

1) I was able to figure this out because we have a number of vista 64computers in the house and when one would simply NOT work no matter what I tried ( I had even tried a number of the 16 and other 32 bit audio settings just not the 4100 as I didn't see the connection to the console sound capacity since I do not HAVE any consoles in the house), we loaded the patch on another machine, and IT didn't work, so we loaded it on ANOTHER machine and it DID work... compare and contrast showed the only variance to be the 16/4100.

The point, that one would have to have either anal perseverance in the face of constant no joy in checking each and every possible combination of all settings for all varables, or luck in having a number of 64 bit vista machines, with one strangely either set or changed to the one setting out of many that would work to find this workaround (unless one had seen the same issue before). That's bad in a patch intended to MAKE THINGS BETTER.

2) IFF I have sold you something and it has problems, and I offer to, and am understood to have a moral imperative to, fix the problem, is it not understandable that folks will be irritated when I, purportedly an EXPERT in what I do, actually make things WORSE? Is it not exasperating that I have done it in a way somewhat arcane for the client, but a fashion that SHOULD have been obviously problematic to someone who DEVELOPS programs for PC users? Oh yeah, maybe they DON'T.

At Wn, the contest for most despicable developer is a close race between EA and Treyarch. Thank you Treyarch, your stoneage technology (see video error origin = Treyarch coding to older 6000 and 7000 NV card architectures for some maps), caveman reasoning (audio patch problem), and ineffable sense for the inept in public relations have probably won the race... I backed the right horse.

I do not support rowdies on our board, or dissing the staff... Firstly that's our affair, and secondly its poor etiquette. It is to be expected however that if we sell you a bill of goods and it is flawed, the fix is flawed again, and it is only by happenstance that the sound setting for consoles is also emulated by most current PC sound cards and chips, we have a moral responsibility to DEEPLY APOLOGIZE because that is good etiquette too. It is also expected by most organized, scientifically oriented and educated persons that you will learn from your mistakes and improve your methodology if they have shown a bias that negatively impacts outcomes. Not admitting to the gravity of your mistakes, nor changing your biased orientation and fomenting 1984 doublespeak is a great way to lose an election - and you my friends vote every time you pull out your wallet. Don't forget!

And they call ME a Dimwit

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Re: For People With No Sound in 1.2 With Vista

Well, I see the console connection. That's how I helped a out a few people in my clan and on the callofduty forums. Got a ban for pointing it out, too. LOL. Instead of explaining why there was an issue with quite a few people with Vista, JD claimed that only a few people were having issues and that it wasn't a big deal.
The server on which I play is in the 89th percentile of COD WaW servers right now, and out of about 5 hours playing, EVERY SINGLE PERSON ON VISTA needed to change to console settings in order to get sound.
I personally counted about 50 people who joined our server who had lost sound in WaW on Vista on our server alone. Only one person said he had Vista and it worked without changing anything. I found out later that he had already changed it due to Blackscreen and CTD errors before the patch. So really I have yet to see anyone in that server who had Vista that didn't have to change something in order to play.
Considering how many people have gone to Vista, the percentage is a little higher than JD thinks of people having this problem. He claims that much less than 1% of PC players on Vista are having this issue. Considering I saw 100% in my clan's server with the issue, I think I believe him even less than I didn't previously...

[Dimwit[WN]]

Re: For People With No Sound in 1.2 With Vista

Unnamed, a reasonable measure of the area damage of the patch (or any problem) in an unbiased way is to check the growth curve of google references and divide by your favorite estimate of the average disgruntled person's repetitiveness. We usually post a problem once it surpasses 5000 references...

"Patch 1.2 promptly kills the sound on thousands of Vista 64 OS's"

"Patch1.2 or welcome to the world of PC gaming as designed by CLOWN-CAR CONSOLE BOZOS"

and

"Oh yeah, 1.3 has already been threatened to be coming soon, and more ominously, will contain a "more permanent sound fix". If this is to be estimated for effectiveness from the previous effort, its time to buy a backup soundcard and speaker set, because they're going to burn the circuits on them this time."

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[Iwantcable]

Re: For People With No Sound in 1.2 With Vista

Got around to installing the patch today, and I had to change my settings to get sound. No problems before patch.