OK, I've been playing this game since it's inception and I'm still playing the AOE Expansion(RoR). I've never had a problem until the last month or so. I decided to try to tackle the problem about a week and a half ago in my spare time to no avail. I'm hoping someone here can shed some light as searches and everything else has done me no good. OK on to the problem...
My system isn't exactly new... A7N8X deluxe with the nforce2 ultra 400 chipset. The problem is when I go into the games the music plays fine but the sounds (such as anytime you push a button to research) degrade badly or disappear altogether. I have all the drivers for everything in my system that are WHQL'd for directx 9. (I even tried a few others, in fact I've tried every driver that applies.) I have tried every setting in the hardware acceleration options. I went so far as doing a comlete backup and fresh brand new re-install to no avail. The thing I regret is not trying the game before applying the microsoft update patches. I did try it with and without the windows update for nvidia audio codecs and there was no difference. I also tried running the game in the various compatibility modes, still no luck. This game worked perfectly on this machine for several years, then all of a sudden it doesn't and nothing I have done has fixed it.
All my other games work perfectly, so I'm pretty sure it's not the onboard sound. I have another system that is similarly updated, except it has a via chipset, and the game runs perfect on it. Problem is that's my son's computer and we like to play together over the network so I need both machines to work.
Has anyone heard of any incompatibilities with new directx updates and the nvidia chipset? Or is there anything I may have overlooked that anyone may have an idea? I'm completely perplexed on this one and I want my game back up. So if anyone can help out and give me some ideas they would greatly appreciated!! Many thanks in advance for your help.
My system isn't exactly new... A7N8X deluxe with the nforce2 ultra 400 chipset. The problem is when I go into the games the music plays fine but the sounds (such as anytime you push a button to research) degrade badly or disappear altogether. I have all the drivers for everything in my system that are WHQL'd for directx 9. (I even tried a few others, in fact I've tried every driver that applies.) I have tried every setting in the hardware acceleration options. I went so far as doing a comlete backup and fresh brand new re-install to no avail. The thing I regret is not trying the game before applying the microsoft update patches. I did try it with and without the windows update for nvidia audio codecs and there was no difference. I also tried running the game in the various compatibility modes, still no luck. This game worked perfectly on this machine for several years, then all of a sudden it doesn't and nothing I have done has fixed it.
All my other games work perfectly, so I'm pretty sure it's not the onboard sound. I have another system that is similarly updated, except it has a via chipset, and the game runs perfect on it. Problem is that's my son's computer and we like to play together over the network so I need both machines to work.
Has anyone heard of any incompatibilities with new directx updates and the nvidia chipset? Or is there anything I may have overlooked that anyone may have an idea? I'm completely perplexed on this one and I want my game back up. So if anyone can help out and give me some ideas they would greatly appreciated!! Many thanks in advance for your help.
[This message has been edited by KCTech (edited 02-09-2008 @ 09:53 PM).]