[BUG 1.05]Sound Cuts Out

from Elemental Forums

Played the game with the new patch for about 2.5 hours tonight.  Around 2 hours in, the sound effects started cutting out in battles.  It started with no sound for arrows fired from Archers, then spread to all attacks from all units, and then eventually spread to the strategic map.  This happened over the course of 5 - 10 turns.

 

Vista x64

Operating System: Windows Vista™ Ultimate (6.0, Build 6002) Service Pack 2 (6002.vistasp2_gdr.100608-0458)          

Language: English (Regional Setting: English)

System Manufacturer: Gateway      

System Model: P-173XL FX              

BIOS: Ver 1.00PARTTBL        

Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU    

T8300  @ 2.40GHz (2 CPUs), ~2.4GHz            

Memory: 4094MB RAM        

Page File: 2469MB used, 5912MB available

Card name: NVIDIA GeForce 8800M GTS

 

4,874 views 9 replies
Reply #1 from Elemental Forums Top

any idea what the ram use by elemental was when this happened?

I also noticed sound AND graphics issues in the turns before oom.

harpo

Reply #2 from Elemental Forums Top

I had the sound cutting out on me as well. Didn't think to look at RAM usage, but I was able to carry on playing for a very long time before I quit, and it never went OOM or crashed or anything. I too had been playing for a great many hours when the sound problem appeared, and it got progressively worse exactly as the OP described.

DxDiag

Groupy 2 - Organize multiple applications into grouped tabs on your Windows desktop
Reply #3 from Elemental Forums Top

Yep, I've had this issue before, and usually the game CTDs eventually. A restart of the game fixes it.

Reply #4 from Elemental Forums Top

Yeah, I've had this happen too.  Frequently enough that I can't recall all the circumstances, but usually after a long stretch of play culminating in a tactical combat.

Reply #5 from Elemental Forums Top

Unfortunately I don't know how much RAM was being used.  I was getting ready for bed, so I didn't concern myself with it too much.  However, it did work fine on a restart.

Reply #6 from Elemental Forums Top

I have had this happen on several occasions.  Sometimes it's just the sound in tactical battle that it's missing.  I will watch for when it actually happens.

 

I am using a non sound blaster card.  It really rocks and doesn't have any of the clicking issues that sound blasters have.

 

HTO Claro

Windows 7 64bit

Reply #7 from Elemental Forums Top

Also experiencing this. Starting with some sound effects after playing roughly 45 minutes. Within another 15 minutes I've lost all almost all sound effects and music. Game in general starts to get really choppy as well.

Lots of "DebugMessage:  Out of sample handles." in the debug log when sound starts to die. By the end there are non-sound entries all over the place as well.

Win 7 64bit

Onboard AMD sound

ATI 5770 on Catalyst 10.7 drivers.

Reply #8 from Elemental Forums Top

Please open your debug.err file in notepad, and link the contents into a post here via pastebin. This will give us some technical information that can help troubleshoot your problem.

The file can be found in My Documents\My Games\Elemental

Be sure to copy the debug immediately after the error occurs; if you start the game again, the debug log will be erased and recreated for the new session.