Hi all,

 

I just reinstalled FA 2.9a from scratch last night and ran into the classic FA/HL issue:

 

When sound plays, framerate drops from 60+ to 4-5 fps

As I recall, there were several ways to try and fix this:

 

1) Run DXDIAG or Windows Sound Control Panel and switch sound acceleration to "No Acceleration"

 

2) Switch from OpenGL to D3D or vice-versa

 

3) IRQ sharing between the Graphics Card and Sound Card, to resolve, re-install Win2k or WinXP in "Non-ACPI" and manually configure IRQ assignments.

 

I tried Options #1 and #2 to no success.

 

Option number 3 is just too much for me to go through to play FA again.

 

Does anyone else remember this issue and possible solutions to it?

 

Thanks,

 

B.

Did you make fa29.log and fa29.txt 'read-only' (on your C drive)?

 

(and you can delete the contents of those files)

Did you make fa29.log and fa29.txt 'read-only' (on your C drive)?

 

(and you can delete the contents of those files)

also the hllog.txt which will be right next to the other 2.

oh also

 

http://forums.firearmsmod.com/showthread.php?t=69601&highlight=fa29.log

 

and read for more help with lag.

 

http://forums.firearmsmod.com/showthread.php?t=79440

 

i hope some of this can help you.good luck:D

Thanks for the suggestions all, I will try making the files read-only tonight.

 

However, the issue is not lag as much as it is something wrong with how H-L/FA processes sound. I'm on broadband so there should not be any issues with lag or choke, at least not this big.

 

My PC is powerful enough that I should run at about 40fps no matter what is going on...

 

I'll let you know, but if you think of anything else, post it for me.

 

Thanks,

B.

Those are for when you fight. has nothing to do with sound. try uninstalling your driver and reinstalling it. or check see if there is an update. i recently found i had an update to my sound card too

-G