popping/missing sounds in Quake 4 with openAL selected for audio

MrPink · August 15th, 2007

i get strange popping or brief absence of sound while playing quake 4 with openl al. what i mean is, i have been playing the game for months now using my sound card to put out basically. quake 4 has EAX capabilities, which makes games like that (fps, action), sound sooo much better. this is easiest if you own the game and are familiar with the menus, for now i will just leave it at this: the game is patched to the most recent(and probably last) version, and i have the latest drivers for my sound card. Prey has a similar EAX option you can enable, but the game does not give popping or missing audio, it works flawlessly. so is there some kind of openAL driver i can download, or some other way to fix the issue with EAX in quake 4?

Mako Eyes · August 15th, 2007

Give us information on your sound hardware. Regardless, it's always a good idea to update to the latest sound drivers if you're getting issues such as this.

August 15th, 2007	#1 (permalink)
MrPink McRoll'd Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: "out of the butt and into the f***!" Posts: 516	popping/missing sounds in Quake 4 with openAL selected for audio i get strange popping or brief absence of sound while playing quake 4 with openl al. what i mean is, i have been playing the game for months now using my sound card to put out basically. quake 4 has EAX capabilities, which makes games like that (fps, action), sound sooo much better. this is easiest if you own the game and are familiar with the menus, for now i will just leave it at this: the game is patched to the most recent(and probably last) version, and i have the latest drivers for my sound card. Prey has a similar EAX option you can enable, but the game does not give popping or missing audio, it works flawlessly. so is there some kind of openAL driver i can download, or some other way to fix the issue with EAX in quake 4? __________________ Intel Q9550 @ 2.83ghz l 4GB G.Skill Pi Series DDR2 1111 @ 5-5-5-15 1.9v l EVGA Geforce 8800GTX 768MB ASUS P5Q-E l Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeGamer l PC Power & Cooling Silencer 750 Quad l 2 Seagate 250GB 7.2k RPM RAID 0 Antec 1200 l OCZ Vendetta 2 with Scythe "Ultra Kaze" l Windows Vista Home Premium 64-bit

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August 15th, 2007	#2 (permalink)
Mako Eyes Monkey Sundae Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Newfoundland, Canada. Posts: 970	Give us information on your sound hardware. Regardless, it's always a good idea to update to the latest sound drivers if you're getting issues such as this.