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Glaive · 08-22-2003, 12:58 AM

Ok,this may be too obvious, but are your speakers hooked up correctly? This of course wouldn't have anything to do with freezing and whatnot, but if you have a 5.1 compatible soundcard, and have your front L/R speakers hooked up to what should be the rear speaker ports, you will not get correct sound, especially on dialog and large directional sounds, since those would all have been panned to the front channels. I used to sell home theater equipment, and got a lot of customers who described sound issues like you described, only to find out they'd hooked up their stereo speakers to the wrong jacks on their receiver.

/shrug

As for the other problems, I second the firmware update check.

08-22-2003, 12:58 AM	#11
Glaive Member (8 bit) Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: 1986, I think Posts: 200	hmm Ok,this may be too obvious, but are your speakers hooked up correctly? This of course wouldn't have anything to do with freezing and whatnot, but if you have a 5.1 compatible soundcard, and have your front L/R speakers hooked up to what should be the rear speaker ports, you will not get correct sound, especially on dialog and large directional sounds, since those would all have been panned to the front channels. I used to sell home theater equipment, and got a lot of customers who described sound issues like you described, only to find out they'd hooked up their stereo speakers to the wrong jacks on their receiver. /shrug As for the other problems, I second the firmware update check.