Can Sound Errors Cause Game to Crash?
miramis:
No it wouldn't have been for me, back then I was using a soundblaster - I forget which one exactly though. Possibly the 5.1 version
baratron:
Quote from: miramis on 2007 October 01, 03:18:33
I used to get sound related crashing when Uni came out, it happened right up until Nightlife at which point it stopped happening. My guess is that there was a bug that someone at EA found and fixed *crickets chirping* no really, they actually fixed that one in an expansion :D
Yup. With Uni, I had a consistent crash to desktop problem if I had too many money trees (where "too many" was ['url=http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/smf/index.php/topic,2808.msg80491.html#msg80491]more than five[/url]).
The money tree crash to desktop was fixed temporarily by downgrading my audio quality to Medium, and permanently when I installed NL :D.
Alexx:
Seems that mainly audio errors may cause crash in
1.When two or more the same loops playing in the same time it may lead to very high output audio level and overload game audio engine.
As result it may provoke game crash.
2.Since game audio splitted to several(don't know how much exactly and don't want to know :)) audio streams,when number of playing sounds > than number of audio streams it theoretically may cause game crash.
3.When on lot loading too many sounds activated(for ex.if you have lot saved with somebody playing pinball,somebody watching TV
etc. in the same time) it may provoke loopcycle effect(something like tatatatatata ;D) with some sounds after lot loading and may cause game crash.In this case need to reload this lot again and immediately enter in pause mode for a few seconds,it can help to stop
any possible loopcycle effects.
Sondcard may provoke crash too(in most cases loopcycle crash when audio buffer overflowed),but this is another story.
cwykes:
So I need to go turn off a few things with complicated sounds and see if that helps. Thanks Alexx! I've got a similar set up to TrilinK. I've had some crashes and some really laggy play especially at the 'hood screen since adding Seasons. I've been weeding downloads anyway, but I'd assumed it was graphics related. "Assumption is the mother of all fuck-ups" I've never thought about my sound set up at all!
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