Sound stuttering in Broken Sword 1

jimbo555 · Post by **jimbo555** » Tue May 23, 2006 4:58 pm

Hi, i know how many posts you must get regarding this but its a problem i just cannot figure out!

Having recently bough both BS1 & 2 i sit down to play number 1 and the speech is stuttery/garbled/echo-ey and i just dont know how to fix it.

I at first thought it was my lame soundmax integrated audio so i upgraded that to a soundblaster audigy se and still no luck, all the drivers are up to date etc.

Funny thing is i get the same problem whenever i try to play something via qucktime.

Has anybody had this problem and sorted it out or does anyone know how i may sort it out (the broken sword bit, not the quicktime problem, though if you know of a solution to both i wouldn't mind!)?

I have fairly powerful 2.5ghz IBM ThinkCentre
windows XP
ATI Radeon 9550 256mb Graphics Card (which is in the PCI slot next to my soundblaster though i can't put it anywhere else)
Soundblaster Audigy SE

if other info is needed let me know as i really want to get this sorted as nothing else is yet to work!
thanks

Post by **eriktorbjorn** » Tue May 23, 2006 5:31 pm

jimbo555 wrote:Has anybody had this problem and sorted it out or does anyone know how i may sort it out (the broken sword bit, not the quicktime problem, though if you know of a solution to both i wouldn't mind!)?

I don't have access to any computer running Microsoft Windows so I don't know. But there have been some reports of sound problems that have been solved by telling SDL to use a different audio driver, as described in this recently added FAQ entry. Though of course, that wouldn't explain why QuickTime is misbehaving as well.

jimbo555 · Post by **jimbo555** » Wed May 24, 2006 4:09 pm

Yeah i saw that particular answer but i don't know how to do it! i read a post explaining how to do so with the command prompt but that didn't seem to work!

Post by **eriktorbjorn** » Wed May 24, 2006 7:18 pm

jimbo555 wrote:Yeah i saw that particular answer but i don't know how to do it! i read a post explaining how to do so with the command prompt but that didn't seem to work!

The batch file in the next FAQ entry didn't work, then?

jimbo555 · Post by **jimbo555** » Wed May 24, 2006 7:22 pm

i wasn't able to figure that part out

jimbo555 · Post by **jimbo555** » Wed May 24, 2006 8:26 pm

Hey i just wanna say i figured it out and it worked.
thanks for your help bud.
a lot of the more technical stuff on computers i have taught myself this one just took me a little longer to get to grips with it!
appreciate it bud

Post by **eriktorbjorn** » Wed May 24, 2006 8:27 pm

jimbo555 wrote:i wasn't able to figure that part out

It should be possible (I don't run Windows myself, so I can't test it) to simply copy the four quoted lines from that FAQ entry to Notepad, and save it as scummvm.bat in the same folder as your scummvm.exe. (You might not need the line that sets the video driver to windib, though.)

Notepad may possibly have some objections to saving a file where the name doesn't end in .txt, and Windows has the annoying habit to hide the last bit of the filename if it thinks it knows what kind of file it is. Back when I used Windows, that was the first setting I turned off.

Sound stuttering in Broken Sword 1

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