"alilly" wrote

> Ok, I myself am not running vista, but a friend of mine is, and we've got
> an
> older game we'd like to play together. The game was made for Windows 98,
> so
> it still runs fine on XP and even Vista. The only problem is there's a
> sound
> issue with the game that makes the sound crackle and pop constantly, which
> is
> very annoying, especially durring the cinematics in the start of the game.
> I
> was able to fix this quite easily on my XP maching by going into dxdiag,
> then
> to the sound tab, then turning the sound hardware acceleration off.
> Problem
> solved, for me. However, as my friend is running Windows Vista, he has
> DX10,
> and there's no option to turn the sound acceleration off. So my question
> is,
> how do we make this work in vista, besides downgrading to DX9c (which I'm
> not
> sure is possible in Vista), or downgrade to XP. Is it even possible to
> make
> an adjustment like that anymore?

You might try posting to the games newsgroup:
http://www.microsoft.com/communities...&lang=en&cr=us

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