Ralackk: If you go into the games folder does it have any config or ini files you can open with notepad?
Also could you please post what OS your running and what soundcard/chip you have?

GameRager: Sounds like a sound buffering issue. I don't know much about it but it sounds like what others describe when referencing sound buffering problems......like in some old dosbox games if you set the sound buffer to too high or low it'll cause sound stutters and cutouts......don't know if your game's config files have a sound buffer/sound block size/sound chunk size setting or entry but if they do it might be worthwhile to edit those to higher and lower settings.

GameRager: Check the game's install directory and any directories inside it for .cfg or .ini files....or any file marked settings or config/cfg.....tell me what you find.

GameRager: List the files in the main folder, and also the names of all subfolders....don't list subfolder files yet though. I'll try to figure it out.

GameRager:

Aignur: Since official gog.com support hasn't replied to me in about 4 days now I figured I'd post my problem here to see if anyone has any suggestions, fixes or similar experiences.

Basically anytime I play a mission in The Nations, the sound has a great deal of interruptions and stuttering. This gets worse the further I zoom out the camera. It sounds like the game's sound effects are interrupting the music, and the more of the game field I can see, the more sounds there are to interrupt the music.

I wouldn't say the game is unplayable, but it's annoying enough that I haven't played the game for a while - despite just having bought it.

And the odd thing is that the demo version (downloaded from JoWooD's own website) has none of these problems.

Any suggestions?

Raijen: I had this issue as well (as well as a couple of old games here) I resolved it by turning sound acceleration off in DXDiag

WinXP SP3 with an actual Creative Soundblaster Live! X-Gamer card.

Hope it helps.

Raijen: I had this issue as well (as well as a couple of old games here) I resolved it by turning sound acceleration off in DXDiag

WinXP SP3 with an actual Creative Soundblaster Live! X-Gamer card.

fortytwo: This helped me -- thanks! Windows XP, Control Panel -> Sound and Audio Devices -> Volume -> Speaker settings -> Advanced -> Performance -> Hardware acceleratoin.

I had to turn it all the way down to None to nearly eliminate the stuttering.

Aignur: I'm glad it helped someone =)
I still find it odd that this problem exists in Win7 though. Win7 doesn't even have the options you're referring to, and according to the intarnetz it doesn't support sound hardware acceleration at all. Seems strange that something that's not there can cause a problem.

fortytwo: I found another solution too. See the older thread here about "Cannot change resolution". In the tool described there (with caveats), as I increased the number of textures, the sound problems decreased. But the startup time increased -- at infinite textures, it seemed to take an infinite amount of time to start. :( The sound was much better for me by about 2000 textures, I think. (I don't have access to that computer to check right now.)