Yay CoD 4

[throdgrain]

Ok I foolishly downloaded this off Steam.

The fps is a bit jerky, but Ive downscaled a bit and its ok now with the 7900GTO.

BUT theres a big sound problem, I cant hear the guns firing, pretty much half the sounds are missing.

Any ideas anyone who might know?

Cheers

[Mabs]

what soundcard you using for it ? and vista/xp ?

i heard there were a few sound probs with it, didnt get it myself tho :\

best thing i can suggest is :
steam -= verify local files/cache
turn off all clever sound stuff - surround sound etc, set to stereo, see if that works

[throdgrain]

Its an old Audigy card. It is old I know, but all other games are ok, CSS, Company of Heroes, CoD2, lots of games.

Its XP btw, Ill check what you said cheers

[Ctuchik]

old sound card shouldn't be a problem as long as the drivers are atleast updated this year

[throdgrain]

Drivers are up to date. I tried it on mono, it works fine

[Mabs]

if you got the creative console thing installed, put it back to normal, then turn OFF: EAX, sound effects, CSS, reverb, etc, if any of its on

[throdgrain]

I havent , I just installed the drivers. Ill have a butchers cheers

[throdgrain]

I uninstalled everything to do with Creative, then tried the onboard sound. This gave me loads of jip so I reinstalled the Audigy card. As I restarted the pc I heard the jolly XP music. As far as I know there's no Creative stuff on the PC, but the sound works, and works fine in CoD4 as well.

Rather odd, but I give up Ill just pretend everything is how I planned

[throdgrain]

The colours go a bit wierd sometimes mind ....

[JingleBells]

Originally Posted by throdgrain

The colours go a bit wierd sometimes mind ....

Nah, you've just bought the special Trem edition.

[TdC]

lol trem's pink meat gun



let me know what you think of it Mr Throd, I've been lusting after the game for a while now, but was holding off getting it on steam. I know you're a multiplayer buff, but I particularly like the CoD singleplayer stories so I am curious what it's like this time around.

[throdgrain]

Hate to say it, but so far the single player is rather good

Ive not done any MP really, I tried it but theres some wierd graphical errors (the picture above is an extreme example). My gun on mP is black, lots of the textures are just black, it looks kind of stupid Im not doing it like that.

All in all though so far Id say the game is much better than I'd expected, if your buying it for single player Id probably recommend it, for whats thats worth

Ive read on the net that it's made for DX9, which seems a bit wierd what with the problems I've had. Mind you Im playing it in 1280 x 1024 which is my monitors native resolution. The game apparently wants to play in 800 x 600, but thats simply Not Happening

[Mabs]

just a side note - multiplayer ranks are saved on your pc , client side, so if you start doing it, and need to reinstall, back up the files first


oh and to quote most of the tech forums for it - "cod 4 is known to have issues with the 7xxx series NVidia cards, try updating the drivers"

[TdC]

ooh coolies, tbh having you say you enjoy the SP elements is imo praise indeed for the game. shame the gfx are playing up for you. I had that in CoD2: had the special ed version iirc, and the textures were forever playing up once I installed the (at the time) recent release of nVidia's drivers. After that I got tearing and blinking textures, and iirc also black areas that were texture free

bit worrying, because I have a 7950GX2, which is a wierd enough card as it is, and run at 1920x1200 o0

[throdgrain]

Ive just installed the latest Nvidia drivers (169.21) and it seems ok, played a bit more no dodgy graphics.

Odd because I only reinstalled 2 weeks ago so the drivers that were there were no more than a fortnight old!