Call of Duty:World at War

Ducimus · 04-19-10, 12:47 AM

SB audigy, cause its all that was there when i walked into the store.

I even tried moving the soundcard to another PCI slot since it was sharing an IRQ with the video card. Even with a new IRQ, no sound.

edit:

This oddity defies beleif in my book. I have ZERO problems with any other game i play. Have ME1 and 2, Sh4, Sh5, L4d1 and 2, hell, i can load any game i have in my collection and i have NEVER had this much trouble with any single one of em except for maybe "Boiling point". that game was utter failure.... which is kinda how this one is turning up to be in my book. I refuse to play a FPS without sound. THink ill try and bring it back to best buy for a refund in the next day or two. UnFingbelieveable.

Ducimus · 04-19-10, 02:04 PM

Well, best buy won't take it back, so im stuck with the worthless POS.

On top of that, activisions COD regestration seems to be broken, so i can't even regester to request help on the offical forum.

All all round fail. Not even their website works correctly. Making Ubi look like the patron saints of functioning software.

Dowly · 04-19-10, 02:16 PM

Ouch, that blows.

Ducimus · 04-19-10, 04:00 PM

out of curiosity, for those that do have sound, what soundcard do you have? I brought back the one soundcard i bought on a whim after i discovered its the same freaking chipset as an SB audigy.

It occurs to me that chipset is older then dirt. Never thought about it tell now. But then, EVERY OTHER GAME works except this one. So its not like i have had a reason to explore new soundcards before. The min system requirements for this game says DirectX 9c compatible, which is about as vague as you can get.

Dowly · 04-19-10, 04:03 PM

X-fi Extreme Gamer here. Seems to pretty popular card and so far haven't had problems but with one game.. which I can't remember it was, but anywho.

nikimcbee · 04-19-10, 05:06 PM

I'm sick of shooter games. I bought this one, played it once and it sits on the desk. It has already been un-installed.

Arclight · 04-19-10, 05:33 PM

Tried it a bit, had sound with X-fi titanium fatality pro (did not but for the fatality nonsense, Have to point that out) and onboard Realtek... ALC889A I think.

Ducimus · 04-19-10, 07:16 PM

Think i may have found the problem. COD5 doesn't like emulation. The instructions i found said to look for

"\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\C ontrol\MediaResources\DirectSound\Device Presence"

And change emulated value from 1 to 0.

Looked around some more and found another post buried in some obscure messageboard in a thread that no longer freaking existed but in google cache that said to look for EVERY INSTANCE of "device presence". Just looked in regedit on my work machine, and sure enough there are 2 or 3 more "emulated" values that exist (at least here). Which would explain why even after editing the one regester value, my dxdiag still said emulated. I didn't get ALL the values. Can't wait to try this out at home and see if it works.

Histking · 04-21-10, 04:19 PM

Hi,

I still play COD WAW every so often...Problem I have is all the hackers and cheats that seem to figure a way around Punkbuster. Anyway, there is a program available to backup your profile in that game just incase your 'puter has the big melt down. I back it up and save the file on an external. If anyone is interested, i'll send info. on it. Also, I had sound issues and the way i fixed it (after much screwing around) is I simply did a system restore back a few days. Fixes it everytime...Seems to be a vista issue as well. Later all.

04-19-10, 05:06 PM	#6
nikimcbee Fleet Admiral Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Patroling the Slot. Posts: 17,952 Downloads: 90 Uploads: 0	I'm sick of shooter games. I bought this one, played it once and it sits on the desk. It has already been un-installed. __________________

04-19-10, 05:33 PM	#7
Arclight Navy Seal Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Land of windmills, tulips, wooden shoes and cheese. Lots of cheese. Posts: 8,467 Downloads: 53 Uploads: 10	Tried it a bit, had sound with X-fi titanium fatality pro (did not but for the fatality nonsense, Have to point that out) and onboard Realtek... ALC889A I think. __________________ Contritium praecedit superbia.

04-21-10, 04:19 PM	#9
Histking Nub Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: Atlanta Posts: 3 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	Call of Duty - WAW - Profile Backup Hi, I still play COD WAW every so often...Problem I have is all the hackers and cheats that seem to figure a way around Punkbuster. Anyway, there is a program available to backup your profile in that game just incase your 'puter has the big melt down. I back it up and save the file on an external. If anyone is interested, i'll send info. on it. Also, I had sound issues and the way i fixed it (after much screwing around) is I simply did a system restore back a few days. Fixes it everytime...Seems to be a vista issue as well. Later all.

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04-19-10, 12:47 AM	#1
Ducimus Rear Admiral Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 12,987 Downloads: 67 Uploads: 2	SB audigy, cause its all that was there when i walked into the store. I even tried moving the soundcard to another PCI slot since it was sharing an IRQ with the video card. Even with a new IRQ, no sound. edit: This oddity defies beleif in my book. I have ZERO problems with any other game i play. Have ME1 and 2, Sh4, Sh5, L4d1 and 2, hell, i can load any game i have in my collection and i have NEVER had this much trouble with any single one of em except for maybe "Boiling point". that game was utter failure.... which is kinda how this one is turning up to be in my book. I refuse to play a FPS without sound. THink ill try and bring it back to best buy for a refund in the next day or two. UnFingbelieveable.

04-19-10, 02:04 PM	#2
Ducimus Rear Admiral Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 12,987 Downloads: 67 Uploads: 2	Well, best buy won't take it back, so im stuck with the worthless POS. On top of that, activisions COD regestration seems to be broken, so i can't even regester to request help on the offical forum. All all round fail. Not even their website works correctly. Making Ubi look like the patron saints of functioning software.

04-19-10, 02:16 PM	#3
Dowly Lucky Jack Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Finland Posts: 25,053 Downloads: 32 Uploads: 0	Ouch, that blows.

04-19-10, 04:00 PM	#4
Ducimus Rear Admiral Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 12,987 Downloads: 67 Uploads: 2	out of curiosity, for those that do have sound, what soundcard do you have? I brought back the one soundcard i bought on a whim after i discovered its the same freaking chipset as an SB audigy. It occurs to me that chipset is older then dirt. Never thought about it tell now. But then, EVERY OTHER GAME works except this one. So its not like i have had a reason to explore new soundcards before. The min system requirements for this game says DirectX 9c compatible, which is about as vague as you can get.

04-19-10, 04:03 PM	#5
Dowly Lucky Jack Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Finland Posts: 25,053 Downloads: 32 Uploads: 0	X-fi Extreme Gamer here. Seems to pretty popular card and so far haven't had problems but with one game.. which I can't remember it was, but anywho.

04-19-10, 07:16 PM	#8
Ducimus Rear Admiral Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 12,987 Downloads: 67 Uploads: 2	Think i may have found the problem. COD5 doesn't like emulation. The instructions i found said to look for "\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\C ontrol\MediaResources\DirectSound\Device Presence" And change emulated value from 1 to 0. Looked around some more and found another post buried in some obscure messageboard in a thread that no longer freaking existed but in google cache that said to look for EVERY INSTANCE of "device presence". Just looked in regedit on my work machine, and sure enough there are 2 or 3 more "emulated" values that exist (at least here). Which would explain why even after editing the one regester value, my dxdiag still said emulated. I didn't get ALL the values. Can't wait to try this out at home and see if it works.