Sound Problem

[Kent]

Hello.

I replaced SPWaW 2.3 w/ 4.5 a couple of weeks ago, and while the new version is generally a great improvement overall (love the multiplay), I'm having terrible problems with sound in the game. The sounds play, but they load EXTREMELY slowly, it takes 40-50 seconds for the sound for an artillery barrage to load for instance, and individual shots can take up to five seconds. When I turn the soundtrack and all of the other sounds off the game runs very smoothly. I didn't have this problem with the 2.3 version, and don't have a similiar problem in other games.

Now I noticed in the "What's New" lists that somewhere along the line "double buffering" had been added for the sounds. I don't really know what that is, but since I'm having problems now, and I wasn't before, I have to wonder if that isn't what is causing all of the delays I'm suffering. So my question is, is there anyway I can disable the double buffering of the sound, or is there anything else I can do short of turning all of the sounds off.

Thanks for your help

Kent

[Cirrus]

Paul Vebber said this on another thread:
"There are a few sound cards that don;t play nice with 4.5. We have reduced the number in 5.0. Try it with the sound options turned off and see if that helps. If it does, V5 has a good chance of fixig the prob. "

[Kent]

OK, thanks for the info. I guess with v5.0 coming out soon I won't have to wait so long to get platered by four batteries of Soviet 152s.

Kent