All Game Sound Shuts Off
uknortherner:
I had this sound drop-out (more like lag) issue last night, and unsurprisingly, going off what people have already said on here, I have an adult sim who rides a bike. However, I also noticed that at 3am when the game runs its usual 'hood maintenance, all the sound came back - as one huge cacophonic mess that lasted nearly a minute. Basically, it was every possible audio instance that should have played out throughout the day compressed into a minute of eardrum-destroying noise. After that, the audio behaved as normal.
I seem to recall this happening before, shortly after installing Ambitions, but I haven't really played the game properly for a while until last night.
It's just another entry in a long list of bugs that EA will sweep under the rug, along with the broken lights, the running glitch and countless others that I keep coming across but quickly forget.
Entgleichen:
Quote from: ElviraGoth on 2010 August 31, 23:06:55
I lowered the sound quality and it helped, but didn't stop it entirely.
Did you lower sound quality to "Low" or "Middle"?
Quote from: ElviraGoth on 2010 August 31, 23:06:55
I have noticed when I have the task manager open on my second monitor that when the sound goes out, the CPU usage jumps from approx. 50-55% to 100% and stays there for awhile. When the sound starts again, the usage drops back down.
Yea, that's what I've discovered, too.
ElviraGoth:
Tried both. Tried the middle setting first, then the low setting. Still have sound shutting off.
Tried a couple of things last night. I read where someone suggested changing the speaker options. Mine are set at 2.0 basic speaker setup. When I got to the game select screen, I tried changing it to 4. whatever and the game actually loaded faster. Once the game was loaded, I changed it back to 2.0. I didn't have sound problems right away like I have been, but they did start again. So I changed to the 4.0, and the sound came back pretty fast, but cut out again. I'm going to play around with it a little tonight and see if I can find a setting that works halfway decent.
I've also had some problems with my mouse. Click on something and I get an unrelated pie chart or that the item is unselectable. So I also was checking my video card settings to see if there was anything there. There was a setting for advance frame rendering that said if there were problems with the mouse pointer to reduce the value. So I did that, too. (After I had loaded the above-mentioned game.)
My thinking on the advance frame rendering was that maybe it was taking too much memory, but the setting is on the GPU, not the CPU. It did help the mouse clicking, though.
ethereal:
I was having the no-sound issue since the last Ambitions patch. Here is what a guru on ea forums yesterday told me to do and it actually worked for me.
Problem source link: http://forum.thesims3.com/jforum/posts/list/257198.page
1. Click Start or press the Windows key and R, click Run, type msconfig, and then click OK.
2. Click on Startup.
3. Select disable All.
4. Click on Services.
5. Check the box that says Hide All Microsoft Services, then Disable All.
6. Apply, then restart your system.
Attempt to run the game. This will eliminate most of what might be interfering with TS3 running properly on a software level. Once you're done, repeat the above procedure, using the Enable All buttons to turn services and startup items back on.
-Big Guy-
I only tested it for 1 (human) game hour, but that was enough since it was cutting out on me around 15 minutes of gameplay. Hopefully, this will work for everyone that's having this issue. Moral of the story: Kill every startup/service that isn't Micro$ucks related before loading the game.
morriganrant:
That is really fucking stupid, it sounds like something from EA, or alternately Microsoft. While yeah, it does reduce any possible conflict in a "raze it all" kind of way, most peoples computers do not reply on just their shit, and there is a lot of other useful things that don't come from either of them. Yeah, that is a really great idea! Tell all the sheeple to disable their virus scanners and other net security items, and not tell them they need to re-enable those! Unless you know what you are turning off, you probably shouldn't. What is a good idea? Open up msconfig and on occasion weed through it by hand, plus use of google if needed, and remove things that do not necessarily need to open at start-up. Same with services, not all are needed, some do shit you want to keep. You don't even need to just shut it all off like they are telling you to, you can just set the crap to manual in services.msc. Then they only open up when a program calls for that service. Note that Apples ipod services don't seem to agree with this tactic.
Just open up Windows Task Manager and end task anything you aren't using if the rest is beyond you. Most things that need to be running will pop back up and shit that you really shouldn't close will just restart the computer. Actually learn what those processes are.
That's great that that worked for you, but do you know what all you closed up? I bet that the majority of people that he gave that advice to have no idea.
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