Nasty Noises

[Von Manteuffel]

Not sure whether, or not this is the forum in which to post this, but since the "Mods" forums seem to be where the brains hang-out, here goes.

I've been away from Silent Hunter for quite a while, but, like a lot of people I suppose, decided to "come home."

I installed SH3 + the immaculate GWX3 Gold, SH Commander and JSGME.

I then installed a few mods - NONE OF THEM SOUND MODS, except "No Ring Ring Mod by Melendir"

I began a patrol, just to re-acquaint myself with the game and, on engaging my first target, suddenly rediscovered one of the problems which had taken me away from SH3 over a year ago.

Basically, I get an unexpected - almost intermitent - loud bass-heavy humming noise, which blots out all game sounds. The closest I can come to describing it is a monotonous version of an electronic Mongol throat-singer.

It only seems to appear when target ships are in play,

I have a Soundblaster X-Fi Extreme Audio card with a 5 speaker set up, but set to stereo headphones (The Mem Sahib likes to watch TV while I win the Battle of the Atlantic for the Third Reich.)

Any similar experiences, or ideas, please? It really hurts my ears when it happens.

[Reece]

I use the same sound card and have no problems with SH3, I am also running XP Pro. You could try going to control panel/Audio Console and try disabling some of the effects such as:
X-Fi Crystalizer
EAX Effects
X-Fi CMSS-3D Virtual
or even change the sampling Rate to something lower.
Also check under Device Information to see if the Wave and Mixer are in fact set to the X-Fi Extreme audio card.
Also check in Device manager to see if there are any conflicts.
BTW, have you disabled the on board sound?:hmmm:

[java`s revenge]

I have also the same card and no problems with it.

Do you have the latest drivers?

Try lowering your hardware accelaration, maybe that works for you.
And what reece writes. Turn off onboard sound if you have it.