Sound bug

[EHM-1001 Robert]

I have FS2002, and changed motherboard and CPU in the machine. I had to reinstall the complete Windows, and many applications. Fortunately many of them did not need to reinstall, like FS.

But since then, I hear strange sounds sometimes. For example I fly a big jet, and for 1-2 seconds, or sometimes for 0,1-0,5 seconds I hear a turboprop engine noise in the left or right speaker. :% And many times from the tower view the engine noise is incredible loud. These things happen sometimes more, sometimes less frequently.

Anybody have similar bug? Should I reinstall the game and reinstall that tons of add-ons again? I would not like to...

[EHM-0695 Scott]

Robert,

Does your new mobo have onboard audio? There could be an IRQ conflict causing these unusual sounds. If there is onboard audio present and you also have a PCI soundcard peripheral, you may need to disable the onboard audio device in the CMOS.

I have the ASUS A7N8X Deluxe Mobo with Soundstorm onboard audio. I had similar problems until I updated the drivers and pulled my SB Audigy card out. Hope this helps.

[EHM-1001 Robert]

Well, now I have an Abit NF7S board, and had before an Abit KD7, and do not have a PCI soundboard. Both have onboard audio, but the older had Realtek, while the new one have NVidia audio chipset.

I think you pointed the problem, probably FS does not use the same way the 2 brands/evolutions of audio chips.

Maybe I will try to make a new "ghost" installation of FS2002 and copy over the new things, like traffic.bgl, sound, aircraft and scenery directories...once I did it, and it worked well.