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RE: Disabling DX Sound Hardware Acceleration in Vista
You can check DX configurations by -->RUN---> "dxdiag" ENTER
And see what you can do as well as test it ...or disable
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Microsoft MVP 1999-2002
"alilly" wrote:
> Ok, I myself am not running vista, but a friend of mine is, and we've got an
> older game we'd like to play together. The game was made for Windows 98, so
> it still runs fine on XP and even Vista. The only problem is there's a sound
> issue with the game that makes the sound crackle and pop constantly, which is
> very annoying, especially durring the cinematics in the start of the game. I
> was able to fix this quite easily on my XP maching by going into dxdiag, then
> to the sound tab, then turning the sound hardware acceleration off. Problem
> solved, for me. However, as my friend is running Windows Vista, he has DX10,
> and there's no option to turn the sound acceleration off. So my question is,
> how do we make this work in vista, besides downgrading to DX9c (which I'm not
> sure is possible in Vista), or downgrade to XP. Is it even possible to make
> an adjustment like that anymore?
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