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Chukkzter
10-28-2010, 05:13 AM
When I bought my PC in summer this year a good friend gifted me Fuel which was on sale by that time to see what my computer can do... due to the integrated videochip it behaved quite poorly and I never played it much. Now I have a new Videocard (HD 4350, its not much but its a huge leap for me) and tried it out again and it actually runs nicely except for one very annoying thing which isn't fixed with this.

When I play I noticed crackles like the volume peaking for a split second. Imagine it like an old FM radio where you rapidly change the stations and you get loud fragments of something. WHen I turn both music and sfx to 0 this effect still exists, as if the volume peaks for a short moment.

This is very annoying as I usually have my system volume to the max on my headphones and just turn down the volume on applications when they are too loud. Anyone know a solution for this? Windows XP user, Athlon II X3 2.9 Ghz, Radeon HD 4350.

seseorang
10-28-2010, 06:41 AM
I imagine you're using on-board sound. What is your full computer specifications?

Chukkzter
10-28-2010, 07:16 AM
I imagine you're using on-board sound. What is your full computer specifications?

Yup, onboard. Though the only game that gave me issues like this to this point is Fuel.

Specs:

Asus M4N78 Pro Mainboard
AMD Athlon II X3 2.9 GHz
2 Gigs DDR2/CL4 800
VIA1708S Audio
500 gigs Sata HD
Gigabyte GV-R435OC-512 (which is basically a Radeon HD 4350 but I faintly remember that I had the same thing when I was still using the NVidia 8300 inbuilt)

Zoid_GER
10-28-2010, 11:23 AM
Normally this issue is caused by Creative Audio Cards like mine, but i only noticed it under Windows XP. Works fine for Windows 7.

Anyway there is a chance to prevent the issue over a annoying way which worked very fine for me when i played on Windows XP.
There is no existing patch or any other tweak for it.

You could try the following which works for me:

- Start Fuel
- go ingame and then alt-tab to windows
- run cmd and enter dxdiag
- go to audio and move the bar on audio-acceleration to LEFT
- wait a few seconds and move slowy back to normal (complete right) best you wait on every part a few seconds
- now alt-tab back into the game and the "popcorn" should gone

DKill3r
12-03-2010, 02:25 PM
I also had this problem and I have a Creative X-Fi Fatal1ty Xtreme Gamer, so no problem with onboard sound.
I'm using Win XP 32bit and disabling the audio-acceleration solved my problem. It's just a pita to change it on and off every time I want to play FUEL. =/