Crysis Loud Thumping sound...

AstaLaVista · Jun 30, 2009

A friend of mine running XP x32 w/SP3 recently purchased Crysis & Warhead, installation went well and everything works fine but, when you start crysis, there is this very annoying thumping sound coming from his logitech 5.1 speakers.

He is running my old rig, Toughpower 600w PSU, EVGA 680i Mobo, ECS 512mb 8800GT w/ Accelero s1/s2 passive heatsink, 4GB OCZ 1066MHZ SLI RAM, E7200 w/ Artic Cooler Pro 7, 500GB HDD, DVD/r/w/dl, Santa Cruz audio card, Logitech 5.1 speaker system.

There is absolutely no problem in every other audio file and/or game he plays, his music sounds very good, videos also sound extremely good with that card except for Crysis, the noise is so extremely annoying that it doesn't lend to try to play the game with it on. Warhead does the same thing but only on the intial loading, once you are at the main menu, the screeching/thumping sound goes away by 80% and you can at least play the game.

We have set the default video & sound Ingame and even though I played crysis with that same rig and do not recall having an issue, I do know that I was using the onboard audio and not the Santa Cruz card. I wanted to ask you to see if you had that issue and what you did about it since Google did not yield any positive answers.

I also tried patching to the last patch but to no avail. I went to the Santa Cruz control panel, tried different things but that did not do anything at all. I do remember CoD 4 or 5 having an audio issue and you had to lower the frequency from 48 to 44 but I don't recall where I had to do it and I wanted to try to do that with Crysis to see if the problem goes away... do any of you remember this as well?

Sorry for the rant guys.

stew2 · Jun 30, 2009

hi LaVista, i'v got Crysis Warhead and dont have that problem with it but to change the sound settings to see if that works do this:

Open Control Panel
Click on Sound
Click on the speakers that are in use then click on properties
Then click on the Advanced tab

P.S your old rig is better than my current lol

AstaLaVista · Jun 30, 2009

Stew2, thanks but... what, exactly, am I looking for in the ADVANCE tab?

Your current rig is no slouch either, I sold mine to this guy cos he needed something good and he paid me a fair price for it so I had no choice but upgrade myself

stew2 · Jun 30, 2009

In the Advance tab you can set the sample rate and bit depth. When i installed COD 5 i had to reduce the setting to the following:

24bit, 48000 Hz (Studio Quality)

I dont know if this will work for Crysis but you can try it. Just keep on trying a lower level and hopefully at some point it will work OK.

AstaLaVista · Jun 30, 2009

Ahhh, ok, I thought as much but wanted to be clear... I'll try that.

Thanks

AstaLaVista · Jul 13, 2009

Stew2, I tried that but, I don't know if I forgot to say this or you missed it but... IT DOES NOT WORK IN "XP w/SP3"

In XP there are no properties under Speakers... any other way or solution where I can try this?

Thanks

stew2 · Jul 23, 2009

AAghh sorry AstaLaVista i never noticed that. Im away from my pc so i cant check XP and i cant remember what sound properties XP has from memory. It seems that a few people are having this problem though, so surely there must be a fix. Sorry i cant help just now.

YouTube - Crysis Sound/Audio Issues

AstaLaVista · Jul 23, 2009

Stew 2, no, that is not this guy's problem, his is a more loud thumping screech at the beginning of the game, so loud and obnoxious that we must opt for exiting to desktop in a hurry, let alone, play the game to see if the thumping is still there.

Actually, now that I do some memory recollection, once we lowered the volume and attempted to get into the game but after he lands and they start talking, it got even more horrible.

I did find a few things I will try but I have not been able to call my friend or go to his house in a very long time.

I do appreciate you taking the time to keep lending a hand though.

fadedrs · Jul 23, 2009

have you tried to update the game with the patches for it.

i had to do that to even get my copy to LOAD!!!

stoneys-nutz · Jul 24, 2009

Hello AstaLaVista,
Have you updated the Logitech drivers ?.

http://www.logitech.com/index.cfm/support_downloads/downloads/

Also, is there a small icon for the sound card/speakers in the task bar ?, if there is try properties in that.
It's been a while since I've seen an XP desktop so this may not apply, but worth a look.
Good luck.

AstaLaVista · Jul 25, 2009

fadedrs said:
have you tried to update the game with the patches for it.

i had to do that to even get my copy to LOAD!!!

Yes, it was the first thing I tried hoping to get a fix for it.

stoneys-nutz said:
Hello AstaLaVista,
Have you updated the Logitech drivers ?.

My friend does not have a Logitech mouse, but suffice to say, I have already been in the control panel for the mouse & sound card to no avail.

stoneys-nutz said:
Also, is there a small icon for the sound card/speakers in the task bar ?, if there is try properties in that.
It's been a while since I've seen an XP desktop so this may not apply, but worth a look.
Good luck.

Yes, I also did that... He does have a 5.1 sorround system and the card seems to pump the sound extremely well everywhere else, except for this game. His Santa Cruz card is old and there is no newer driver than 2003 or 2004 so I am thinking the card is the culprit but it pains me to tell him to upgrade to a new one just because of 1 game that had tons of issues when it first came out (and even after many patches).

MDA400 · Jul 25, 2009

There arent really any vast sound properties for XP as in Vista. the only ones that are extensive that i know of is that you can change the hardware acceleration and speaker config.

you could try messing with the hardware acceleration as it shouldnt really sound different unless you put it fully to low. but yeah, if its something from 2004 or older, then 5 years after is a good upgrade.

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fadedrs · Jul 26, 2009

not sure if this will help or not but here is a link for tweaking crysis.

TweakGuides.com - Crysis Tweak Guide

stoneys-nutz · Jul 26, 2009

Remove the sound card and try it with just the onboard sound.

AstaLaVista · Jul 26, 2009

MDA400 said:
There arent really any vast sound properties for XP as in Vista. the only ones that are extensive that i know of is that you can change the hardware acceleration and speaker config.

you could try messing with the hardware acceleration as it shouldnt really sound different unless you put it fully to low. but yeah, if its something from 2004 or older, then 5 years after is a good upgrade.

Yeah, that's what I told the guy but again, he is more into music than gaming so is not worth it.

fadedrs said:
not sure if this will help or not but here is a link for tweaking crysis.

TweakGuides.com - Crysis Tweak Guide

I'll check it out... thanks!

stoneys-nutz said:
Remove the sound card and try it with just the onboard sound.

Oh, I know it will work, that was my old rig and I played Crysis and Warhead w/o a glitch. The thing is that he insisted on installing that card because it sounded so much better with the sorround system, which, I do have to agree it does.

He is not that worried about it, it is me more than anything else because, well... I can't back away from a challenge so easy.

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