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Started by Jonas Bane
Wed, 18 Dec 2002 17:21
WC-P: Movies Play Too Fast?
Author: Jonas Bane
Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 17:21
Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 17:21
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I recently dug up my Wing Commander Prophecy disks and thought I'd give the game another run. Everything installed just fine but playing any of the videos makes them run at 4x speed. Has anyone else run into this problem and found a way around it? System specs are as follows: AMD Athlon 1.67MHz with 512 RAM Windows XP Pro Geforce4 vid card + SB Live sound Thanks in advance! JB
Re: WC-P: Movies Play Too Fast?
Author: Death
Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 20:52
Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 20:52
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On Wed, 18 Dec 2002 17:21:24 GMT, "Jonas Bane" <jona...@hotmail.com> wrote: > I recently dug up my Wing Commander Prophecy disks and thought I'd give the > game another run. Everything installed just fine but playing any of the > videos makes them run at 4x speed. Has anyone else run into this problem > and found a way around it? System specs are as follows: > > AMD Athlon 1.67MHz with 512 RAM > Windows XP Pro > Geforce4 vid card + SB Live sound Old, known problem. You need to turn down hardware acceleration on your sound card. Least problematic way, IMO, is to just run "dxdiag" from the "Run" window, and select the "sound" tab, and move the resultant slider all the way to the left (no acceleration). You don't need to reboot to turn off acceleration, but do need to reboot upon turning it back on afterwards. (At least, that's the Win98 way. I don't know if XP differs significantly from the above procedure.) SubCrid Death -- Official Net.Nazi, LOAF's Merry Guild http://www.wcnews.com/loaf/ ICQ UIN 3908950 <http://wwp.mirabilis.com/3908950> A Meeting of Minds <http://nohbody.com/schtuff/meeting.html> - a (mostly) cliche-free first contact story (updated periodically)
Re: Movies Play Too Fast?
Author: Stephan Sommer
Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2002 20:05
Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2002 20:05
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"Jonas Bane" <jona...@hotmail.com> schrieb > I recently dug up my Wing Commander Prophecy disks and thought I'd give the > game another run. Everything installed just fine but playing any of the > videos makes them run at 4x speed. Has anyone else run into this problem > and found a way around it? System specs are as follows: > > AMD Athlon 1.67MHz with 512 RAM > Windows XP Pro > Geforce4 vid card + SB Live sound hi, I had the same problem (and the same sound-card ;). Different attitudes (e.g.. DX no sound acceleration) did not bring a solution on my system. Only the change of the sound card brought the solution. Now I play with a SB 4.1 sound card and it works "perfekt" If you also dont can solve the problem by deactivate the sound acceleration, you should test a other sound-card (e.g.. a old one, if you have). best regards Stephan S.
Re: WC-P: Movies Play Too Fast?
Author: Jonas Bane
Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2002 06:12
Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2002 06:12
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Thanks for the suggestion. I changed the setting in dxdiag and everything works perfectly. Cheers JB "Death" <look@my.reply-to.address> wrote in message news:atqn6602mph@enews2.newsguy.com... > On Wed, 18 Dec 2002 17:21:24 GMT, "Jonas Bane" <jona...@hotmail.com> > wrote: > > > I recently dug up my Wing Commander Prophecy disks and thought I'd give the > > game another run. Everything installed just fine but playing any of the > > videos makes them run at 4x speed. Has anyone else run into this problem > > and found a way around it? System specs are as follows: > > > > AMD Athlon 1.67MHz with 512 RAM > > Windows XP Pro > > Geforce4 vid card + SB Live sound > > Old, known problem. You need to turn down hardware acceleration on > your sound card. Least problematic way, IMO, is to just run "dxdiag" > from the "Run" window, and select the "sound" tab, and move the > resultant slider all the way to the left (no acceleration). You don't > need to reboot to turn off acceleration, but do need to reboot upon > turning it back on afterwards. > > (At least, that's the Win98 way. I don't know if XP differs > significantly from the above procedure.) > > SubCrid Death > -- > Official Net.Nazi, LOAF's Merry Guild http://www.wcnews.com/loaf/ > ICQ UIN 3908950 <http://wwp.mirabilis.com/3908950> > A Meeting of Minds <http://nohbody.com/schtuff/meeting.html> - a > (mostly) cliche-free first contact story (updated periodically)
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