sounds like a sound card issue. if you don't wanna muck with drivers, you can
try to just turn off all sounds/music. if that doesn't work, you may have to muck
around with sound card drivers.
At 01:47 PM 10/17/00 -0400, you wrote:
>I recently got a new PC. It IS like playing a totally new game now and I
>was finally able to twist 4 songs. :) But one of the changes I noticed
>with this PC is for the worse. Actually two changes are, but I think I can
>live with the fact that everywhere I go I hear women screaming, bears
>roaring, wisps whizzing, etc. I guess that's supposed to make you feel
>like you're in a zone full of dead bodies and monsters. Bit nerve racking
>though, and I can no longer track by ear.
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>But anyway, that's the problem I can learn to live with. What's killing me
>now is, I THINK, lag. See, lag spikes on my old PC basically just made
>movements slow and choppy. What's happening now is my screen completely
>locks up for about 20 seconds, during that time I'll hear about 5 seconds
>of the me piercing something repeatedly, followed by 5ish seconds of me
>screaming in agony repeatedly, followed by 5 seconds of the mob
>barking/growling/etc, and so on. It's like the client is playing all the
>sound effects of the battle in order of effect rather than chronological.
>And I can do NOTHING while this is going on.
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>I tried going back to all my old PCs settings (no particles, about a 15'
>clip plane, most chatting off, etc) but if it helped any, it only made
>these lag spikes less frequent. It didn't make them any more manageable.
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>Oh and I'm calling these lag spikes for lack of a better explanation.
>Since the screen stops updating for such a long time I don't know what the
>status bar would be showing.
>
>Anyone have any insight on this? Is this what lag is "supposed" to look
>like?
>
>My new PC is a 1GHz P3, with 128 RAM & 64 video RAM. (Nice toy, eh? I
>thought so <g>) Old PC, if I recall correctly, was a 200Mhz P2, with 64 RAM
>& 32 video RAM. Both use 56K modems.
>
>On an unrelated note, Talies, sorry to hear your out of the game, glad to
>hear your staying with the list.
>
>And on another unrelated note, Thex, how'd the Naggy raid go last night?
>
>Peace
>Evulia, crooner of 13 tunes who sometimes masquerades as a rogue in
>Lavastorm
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