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Re: Mechwarrior 2 sound fx suck? Is it ju

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From: ri... Rick LeVesque
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 1995 00:00
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In article <43pli9$3...@hera.cuci.nl>,
Angelo v.d. Weerden        (Wee...@CUCI.NL) <wee...@cuci.nl> wrote:
>sumco...@aol.com (SumCoolGuy) wrote:
>
>>Is it just me, or an the sound FX on this game really BAD. Not bad it
>>terms of the sounds themselves but bad in terms of QUALITY? I'm running
>>the game on a P-133 with a Soundblaster AWE-32. The sound effects and
>>voices sound really crap, ie. they pop sometimes, bot mostly they just
>>sound bad and their is a lot of "background" noise. I was wondering if
>>anyone else noticed this. It's really annoying!
>
>Yeah, by me the sound was also crap, and i seems almost as
>the sound slows down the game, when it stutters..
>
>grtx,
>Angelo
>

This can be a hard problem to fix since it seems that many players have
seen this problem and fixed it in different ways. If you haven't fix it
yet, you may try the way I ended up fixing the problem on my system.

Boot without EMM386. That was it. Scratchy background sounds 
and clicks and pops magically disappeared:)

YMMV
Rick
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