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Article #592Re: Diablo: Problems with Ensoniq Soundscape Elite
From: Brian Oesterling
Date: Mon, 10 Feb 1997 00:00
Date: Mon, 10 Feb 1997 00:00
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Desslock wrote: > > Homer Simpson wrote: > > > > On Sat, 08 Feb 1997 20:11:27 GMT, pana...@juno.com (Usenet's Panache) > > wrote: > > > > >Is anybody else out there playing Diablo with a Ensoniq Soundscape > > >Elite? I seem to have difficulties with it. Every time I play > > >Diablo, some sound effects and MIDI music are come out as a burst of > > >loud static. I say about 50% of all sound effects are come out as > > >static. As you can imagine, this means I have to play with the sound > > >manually turned off (no power to the speakers. Turning sounds down in > > >the game doesn't work... I still get static.) > > > > > >I have the latest build of the drivers from Ensoniq. I also have the > > >latest version of DirectSound installed. Yet, the problem persists. > > > > > >Any help? > > <snip> I emailed Blizzard tech support about this (I have an orginal Ensoniq Soundscape, about 1 1/2 years old) and they suggested this: Go to control panel - multimedia. Under audio, make sure "Use Prefered Devices only" is checked. (rebooting might be necessary) This alone didn't work for me. After playing around a bit I found that selecting the 'Soundscape Playtback (330)' option under preferred device fixed the problem. Give it a try, and good luck!
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From: Brian Oesterling <bpo...@psu.edu> Subject: Re: Diablo: Problems with Ensoniq Soundscape Elite Date: 1997/02/10 Message-ID: <32FF2A2D.5535@psu.edu> X-Deja-AN: 217793861 references: <32fedd1a.278558473@news.alt.net> <32fe62d9.16695573@news.pathcom.com> <32FECA8B.6D85@interlog.com> organization: Penn State University, Center for Academic Computing mime-version: 1.0 newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.rpg,alt.games.diablo x-mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (Win95; I) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit