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Posted May 05, 2018
Hello everyone

I experience some sound crackling and popping during gameplay (not in the menus).

My sound card is Creative SB X-Fi Xtreme Gamer and OS WIndows 10 1803 April 2018.

If anyone could provide solution to this it would be greatly appreciated.
Post edited May 05, 2018 by RockMichu
Posted May 05, 2018
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RockMichu: Hello everyone

I experience some sound crackling and popping during gameplay (not in the menus).

My sound card is Creative SB X-Fi Xtreme Gamer and OS WIndows 10 1803 April 2018.

If anyone could provide solution to this it would be greatly appreciated.
have you tried updating your sound drivers? Or re-running the setup in D3 launcher?
Posted May 05, 2018
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RockMichu: Hello everyone

I experience some sound crackling and popping during gameplay (not in the menus).

My sound card is Creative SB X-Fi Xtreme Gamer and OS WIndows 10 1803 April 2018.

If anyone could provide solution to this it would be greatly appreciated.
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CDN_Merlin: have you tried updating your sound drivers? Or re-running the setup in D3 launcher?
Yes, i have latest drivers installed. I also tried diffrent mixers in setup.
Posted May 06, 2018
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CDN_Merlin: have you tried updating your sound drivers? Or re-running the setup in D3 launcher?
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RockMichu: Yes, i have latest drivers installed. I also tried diffrent mixers in setup.
Do you have sound set to low or high quality in the ingame options menu?
Post edited May 06, 2018 by Hunter-Zero
Posted May 06, 2018
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RockMichu: Yes, i have latest drivers installed. I also tried diffrent mixers in setup.
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Hunter-Zero: Do you have sound set to low or high quality in the ingame options menu?
High quality.

Just tried low quality setting - unfortunately no diffrence.

Someone complain about same thing back in 2002 on arstechnica.com forums (cant post a link). He also had a Creative card.
Post edited May 06, 2018 by RockMichu
Posted May 06, 2018
I had a similar issue with Tachyon which I solved by using dgVoodoo instead of nGlide, at least the crackling is 90% less.
Don't know if it will help here too though but maybe it's worth a try.
Posted May 08, 2018
Keep fiddling around. I seem to recall having that issue myself - I also had a creative card back in those days. The usual setup that worked for me was directsound selected in the launcher with low quality set ingame (might require restarting the game).
Posted August 15, 2018
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Hunter-Zero: Keep fiddling around. I seem to recall having that issue myself - I also had a creative card back in those days. The usual setup that worked for me was directsound selected in the launcher with low quality set ingame (might require restarting the game).
Having to use low quality sound removes the crackling for me but it's not much of a fix. With a Creative X-Fi Titanium there should be no problem running this game with high quality sound.
Posted August 17, 2018
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Hunter-Zero: Keep fiddling around. I seem to recall having that issue myself - I also had a creative card back in those days. The usual setup that worked for me was directsound selected in the launcher with low quality set ingame (might require restarting the game).
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ThreeSon: Having to use low quality sound removes the crackling for me but it's not much of a fix. With a Creative X-Fi Titanium there should be no problem running this game with high quality sound.
In 20 years I've never had a setup that worked with the high quality sound. I think it was always buggy - keep in mind a lot of the features in D3 were brand new tech for the time and supported by a limited number of cards.
Posted August 17, 2018
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ThreeSon: Having to use low quality sound removes the crackling for me but it's not much of a fix. With a Creative X-Fi Titanium there should be no problem running this game with high quality sound.
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Hunter-Zero: In 20 years I've never had a setup that worked with the high quality sound. I think it was always buggy - keep in mind a lot of the features in D3 were brand new tech for the time and supported by a limited number of cards.
I was able to get it to work using IndirectSound, in place of Alchemy: http://www.indirectsound.com/

I don't know why IS works while Alchemy doesn't for Descent 3, but it does.
Posted August 18, 2018
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Hunter-Zero: In 20 years I've never had a setup that worked with the high quality sound. I think it was always buggy - keep in mind a lot of the features in D3 were brand new tech for the time and supported by a limited number of cards.
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ThreeSon: I was able to get it to work using IndirectSound, in place of Alchemy: http://www.indirectsound.com/

I don't know why IS works while Alchemy doesn't for Descent 3, but it does.
I already have that installed, but I still get crackling with high quality. It's a shame because the game has a lot of audio.
Post edited August 18, 2018 by Hunter-Zero
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