Sound problem with Max Payne

[Khan Killer]

I've played Max Payne before with no problem, but since I had to format my pc because of a virus, I've had millions of troubles with Max Payne. Most have been fixed, but I'm left with a couple to do now.

The main problem is the sound. When I play Max Payne, it seems that it only likes to play 1 or 2 sound files at once. A sound will start to play, but will get cut off by another sound or nothing at all.

Here's an example:

Max payne goes into bullet time as he pulls of a shootdodge into a bad guy. This is how it should sound:

"Whack him!" *bang* *bang* *bang* "AAAARGH!" *falump*

But this is how it sounds for me:

"Wha-" *ban-* *ba- *ba-* "AAAA-" *fal-*

It's annoying as hell, and unbearable to play, and Max Payne is just the coolest game ever, I just need to play it!

So if anybody could help me out, I'd be most grateful images/icons/smile.gif

[Triste]

Make sure you don't have the sound channels in the options turned all the way down.

[Khan Killer]

I don't, I have it turned up to the max images/icons/frown.gif

[Triste]

Ok, then check for hardware conflicts and update your soundcard drivers. And it might help if you'd tell your computer specs.

[Khan Killer]

Well, I think it's my sound card. I mean, I try to update it, but AOpen's website is so not user friendly! But my sound card used to be fine.

Well, here's an email I sent to the take2 tech support (still waiting for a reply):

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Hello,
I've had Max Payne for quite a while now, and have been able to play it with no problem, but just recently, I had to format my hard drive due to a virus, and since then, I have had alot of problems with Max Payne.

I've managed to fix most of them, but I'm still left with 2 that I know of.

One problem is that I can't change the gamma or brightness of Max Payne and any other game. I was able to in the past, but not now. I updated my graphics card's drivers. It's a Magnum/Xpert128/X99/Xpert2000 which was updated from my ATI Rage 128 Rage Fury driver. I had to do this to fix a problem I had before with wobbling, bending textures.
How can I fix this problem of not being able to change my gamma and brightness?

And the main problem I'm having in Max Payne is sound. I don't exactly know what's wrong with it, but it seems like it only allows so many sound files to be played at a time, for a sound file would be cut off by another, and sometimes seems by nothing at all. Every sound is interrupted, enemies making alerting calls, guns being fired, bullet-time noises, everything.
Like I said, this has never been a problem before. My sound card is an AW320/Crystal SoundFusion. It's currently set to Game Compatible Device to fix the problem in Max Payne which freezes the computer when the game is exited.
How can I fix this problem with the sound? I tried to find updates on the internet for my Crystal SoundFusion driver, I looked on AOpen's website, but couldn't find much help there. I have Windows ME, and it says "Use BUILT-IN drivers under WinMe" for every driver possible to download, and I don't know which ones to download either.

Well, that's just about it. Thanks for reading, and I hope you can help me with my problems images/icons/smile.gif

-Tom

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And also, my specs are in between the minimum requirements and recommended requirements of Max Payne (I have 128MB RAM though).

[Triste]

Try using the Windows update, it could provide you with new drivers.

[ 08-29-2001: Message edited by: Triste ]

[Khan Killer]

Yeah, I was gonna do that the other day but it was taking so darn long images/icons/frown.gif

I managed to d/l a driver from AOpen, but it was the same one I already have images/icons/mad.gif

Thanks for your help images/icons/smile.gif