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True_Avery
12-16-2010, 04:11 PM
Hi,

I'm playing The Longest Journey on Steam, Vista 64. I've been scouring the internet for answers and no fix has helped me so far.

Every 10 or so seconds, in certain areas of the game, my game "snaps" at me. It this quick, loud "snikt" that sounds like static or something on my speakers. I can leave the area and it will stop, and in no other game does this happen to me. When I re-enter the certain areas, the snaps come back and I can't get rid of them no matter what settings I throw it on. I've updated me sound and graphics drivers, turns 3D acceleration on and off, buffering on and off... everything any thread has told me to do and nothing. If anything, they are just louder and clearer thanks to my tweaking.

Its honestly making the game unplayable for me, because its loud, happens consistently, and is hurting both my ears and my speakers.

And yes, I've tried running in compatibility mode. Nothing changes for me except when I get to 98/95, in which then my computer runs to an absolute snails pace, freezes/slows up, and I cannot access any save games when I do get a moment of smoothness so I have not been able to test the audio in those modes.

Does anyone have any idea whats going on?

ic1male
12-26-2010, 02:42 PM
I had all kinds of weird crackling and video issues. By turning off DirectX support and running on CPU alone, it solved everything.

%APPDATA%\The Longest Journey\Preferences.ini

[DirectX]
;bool_StartFullscreen=0
bool_IsDoubleBuffer=0
bool_UseHardware=0

The ; on the second line tells the game to ignore the statement so the game runs full-screen. To play in a window, remove the semi-colon.

Thanks to another poster on Steam who detailed this.

Tooplex
01-29-2011, 09:41 AM
I have the same problem, it snaps every 10 seconds in different places. The only way for it to stop is to turn off Sound Effects, but that plain annoying. Also ic1male didnt work, it put it in windowed mode as well. Really annoying bug.

mrmontana
07-02-2012, 01:31 PM
I've looked into this too and it seems the problem is indeed related to Sound Effects. Turning off sound effects in the main menu and then raising it again while loaded into the world fixes it, but once you load into another area the cracking is back again. :(

jtull89
07-21-2012, 04:35 PM
Has anyone here tried disabling sound acceleration?