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Heroes of Might and Magic seriesHoMM2: Popping sound problem(31 posts)solved(31 posts)solved
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Posted August 23, 2009
Hi guys.
Just bought Heroes 2 gold and im experiencing sound popping in the music tracks when playing the game...Does anyone have a solution to this problem. I have chosen to put the music option on music /w opera as is, and it doesn't seem to work any better if i change to another setting.
Please help if you can. Im running Vista x64, with soundblaster X-Fi.
Really want to enjoy this fantastic game as much as possible.
Thanks all.
Post edited August 23, 2009 by RunningManDK
This question / problem has been solved by sp0rkyimage
Posted August 23, 2009
press ctrl-f11 2 times
Posted August 23, 2009
Thanks for the quick reply.
Have tried your suggestion, but it doesn't seem to make a difference.
Do you want to elaborate why and how this should help?
thanks again.
Posted August 23, 2009
it frees up cpu time. Ticks in the sound are caused by the sound thread not getting enough cpu time.
Be sure to not run a torrent client or something like that. DOSBox is not compatible with their small burts of cpu usage
Posted August 24, 2009
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Qbix: it frees up cpu time. Ticks in the sound are caused by the sound thread not getting enough cpu time.
Be sure to not run a torrent client or something like that. DOSBox is not compatible with their small burts of cpu usage

Well i have tried it and it doesn't work, guess it might be a more complicated sound problem then.
But thank you for your suggestion and quick reply:)
Posted August 25, 2009
Here is some discussion about your problem on the Celestial Heavens forums, but the conclusion was, that it was caused by the localised version. We don't know which version GOG got to distribute, but here might be the problem.
Posted August 25, 2009
I see you guys talk about DOSBox... but Isn't HoMM2 a native Windows game?
I still have my original CD and it comes with both the DOS and Win32 executables (the latter works fine with XP out of the box, haven't tried on Vista).
Is the GoG version only the DOS one?
Post edited August 25, 2009 by Antaniserse
Posted August 25, 2009
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Antaniserse: I see you guys talk about DOSBox... but Isn't HoMM2 a native Windows game?
I still have my original CD and it comes with both the DOS and Win32 executables (the latter works fine with XP out of the box, haven't tried on Vista).
Is the GoG version only the DOS one?

Reply from GOG support (I asked them about it):
3. HoMM2 in DOSBox - HoMM2 had two versions. DOS version was easier to
tame on XP/Vista so we stick with that.
Posted August 26, 2009
When I first started the game I had a similar issue with the sound. This discussion mentions that DOSbox doesn't share CPU cycles well. I make sure nothing intensive was running in the background (in my case the offender appeared to be iTunes). After simply shutting down some programs the sound was fine.
Posted August 27, 2009
I guess we need to ask GoG to "tame" the Windows version then. The sound stutters are really annoying...
Posted August 28, 2009
Well, I'm running Windows 7 (64) atm, and have these "jittering" sound problems too.
Playing with the dosboxhomm2.conf different sound and cpu settings didn't help...
Did someone of you, guys, already ask the support about the native win32 version?
Post edited August 28, 2009 by Mad_Max
Posted August 28, 2009
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Mad_Max: Well, I'm running Windows 7 (64) atm, and have these "jittering" sound problems too.
Playing with the dosboxhomm2.conf different sound and cpu settings didn't help...
Did someone of you, guys, already ask the support about the native win32 version?

But remember that Windows 7 is not yet released to customers and doesn't have GOG support (yet i guess)...
Posted August 28, 2009
Windows 7 RTM has been on MSDN for a while now.
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Mad_Max: Well, I'm running Windows 7 (64) atm, and have these "jittering" sound problems too.
Playing with the dosboxhomm2.conf different sound and cpu settings didn't help...
Did someone of you, guys, already ask the support about the native win32 version?
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Horus: But remember that Windows 7 is not yet released to customers and doesn't have GOG support (yet i guess)...
Posted August 28, 2009
I also had sound popping/skipping issues on my Linux netbook running HOMM2.
I was able to fix it by changing prebuffer=100 (milliseconds) under [mixer] in dosboxhomm2.conf.
Playing around with this setting might help with some of the skipping/popping issues if none of the other suggestions (CPU etc.) do. Worked for me, anyway. :D
Posted August 28, 2009
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Plyshkin: I guess we need to ask GoG to "tame" the Windows version then. The sound stutters are really annoying...

The fact is HoMM2 is very unstable under XP. On the contrary I have never seen any crashes with the dos version inside dosbox. My CPU is a Core 2 Duo @ 2 GHz and I can see one core maxed out : Dosbox is really a CPU hog as the original game runs on a 486 DX4/100.
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RunningManDK: Hi guys.
Just bought Heroes 2 gold and im experiencing sound popping in the music tracks when playing the game...Does anyone have a solution to this problem. I have chosen to put the music option on music /w opera as is, and it doesn't seem to work any better if i change to another setting.
Please help if you can. Im running Vista x64, with soundblaster X-Fi.
Really want to enjoy this fantastic game as much as possible.
Thanks all.

If you edit the configuration file you will find a parameter about the video driver to use. Try different them all, maybe one will give better results.
Post edited August 28, 2009 by ephaestos
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