more 1.4 bug fixes.

[Ch3tan]

CS 1.4 Workarounds
scr0llwheel @ 21:33 - cstrike - 6 comments
On the CS Central forums, Wolflord has posted a nifty little trick for those of you who can't seem to start CS or are having troubles with it loading.
I believe I found the solution as to why some of us are unable to run CS with the new patch..If you look in the updates you will see mention of DirectSound. Myself I have an old Awe64 and so I went to Start->Run->(type)dxdiag and hit enter.
Click on the tab for sound and locate the slider for Hardware acceleration...Move it up to max and run the test if you like....My card tested okay and now I can launch CS without a hitch...Hope this helps!
It has been confirmed to work and should help you guys (and gals) out immensely!

The second workaround comes from Planet Half-Life. If you are having problems with HL/CS crashing to your desktop, Eric Christopher Nielsen has suggested a fix. Try adding "-nocdaudio" to the Half-Life command line in the shortcut.

 

[S-Gray]

That DXDiag has a lot more Information on Hardware than i first thought...

 

[old.kennyken]

my sound as been fucked up on cs since 1.3.but up untill now i used to press esc and resume when i frist started the game and it sorted it ,which i could live with but now i,v updated to 1.4 my sound is totallaly fucked .i,v just tryed what u posted and i got this message:



"your sound card does not support hardware buffering,sounds will only play back from software buffers"

got any ideas ?


my sound card is a labway xwave 4000

 

[Summo]

New sound card needed! Get one that supports DirectSound. My Creative 512 cost about £40 and is lovely. Has hardware acceleration as well.

 

[Wilier]

SUMMO, get out of this forum, NOW.