Crysis Sound Stuttering Issues

[Whilhelm]

I bought the Special edition of Crysis and I have been having a terrible time trying to enjoy it. The audio cuts out and skips randomly and frequently. It is extremely frustrating and is ruining my experience.

I have tried reinstalling the game, direct x 9.0c, Catalyst 6.10 and my X-Fi drivers to no avail. It is driving me nuts as I can get a very playable frame rate at medium settings with some on high at 1360x768.

I don't understand what is happening because it happens even if I turn all the settings to low at 800x600. I also tried installing the ATI hotfix becasue I figured it couldn't hurt but the setup gives me an error message every time I run it.

Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated becasue I really want to like Crysis but these issues are making me hate it.

 

[newconroer]

Is the game running from the CD?

 

[Fuse-Wire]

sounds like your soundblaster isn't coping, maybe it's a driver issue, have you tried updating them??

 

[imperialreign]

I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that it's probably the lag in either the PCI BUS, or the latency/speed of your systems DRAM

Out of curiosity, what speed is your DRAM running at?

Anyhow . . . first thing I'd do, check your BIOS for a "PCI Latency" setting. If you've got this option, try bumping it up a bit - i.e. if it's set at [32] for default, bump it to[64] - and see if the stuttering happens less frequently.

 

[erocker]

Try going back to the 2nd most recent sound driver..

 

[rfm1953]

Crysis stuttering problem

Hi

You have the exact same problem as I've had. I bought the special edition of Crysis and when I tried running it under dx10 the screen would go black and freeze with the sound repeating. The system would not recover from this point and i was force to reset the pc. Having looked on the forums i noticed that lots of people were having problems with the demo version and in particular they were suggesting that this problem was a sound card issue.
I first tried reinstalling dx10 from Microsoft home site and this didn't work. I downloaded the latest sound driver for my motherboard and again this didn't work.
I finally solved the problem by downloading the latest driver for my graphics card (ATI HD 2900 XT). There are four current versions, two for Vista and two for XP. I am running Vista 32 bit version which was fine for me. The game now runs perfectly even on the highest graphic settings.

Enjoy the game!

 

[peach1971]

The audio cuts out and skips randomly and frequently.

Does it occur independently from HDD activity?
If not, I´d recommend a good defrag tool.

Sometimes I experience the same with new games after fresh installation.
Then I defrag my games partition BY NAME with O&O Defrag, and it´s gone.

 

[HookeyStreet]

I bought the Special edition of Crysis and I have been having a terrible time trying to enjoy it. The audio cuts out and skips randomly and frequently. It is extremely frustrating and is ruining my experience.

I have tried reinstalling the game, direct x 9.0c, Catalyst 6.10 and my X-Fi drivers to no avail. It is driving me nuts as I can get a very playable frame rate at medium settings with some on high at 1360x768.

I don't understand what is happening because it happens even if I turn all the settings to low at 800x600. I also tried installing the ATI hotfix becasue I figured it couldn't hurt but the setup gives me an error message every time I run it.

Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated becasue I really want to like Crysis but these issues are making me hate it.

Have you downloaded the Creative ALchemy driver yet? If not try that

 

[Hawk1]

I bought the Special edition of Crysis and I have been having a terrible time trying to enjoy it. The audio cuts out and skips randomly and frequently. It is extremely frustrating and is ruining my experience.

I have tried reinstalling the game, direct x 9.0c, Catalyst 6.10 and my X-Fi drivers to no avail. It is driving me nuts as I can get a very playable frame rate at medium settings with some on high at 1360x768.

I don't understand what is happening because it happens even if I turn all the settings to low at 800x600. I also tried installing the ATI hotfix becasue I figured it couldn't hurt but the setup gives me an error message every time I run it.

Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated becasue I really want to like Crysis but these issues are making me hate it.

Have you OC your 1950's? I get some sound issues and freezes if I overclock (Overdrive) on my 1950xtx, at stock all is fine. Also, I assume you meant Catalyst 7.10 (least I hope thats what you meant!). Oh, and the hotfix was only for the HD2xxx and 3xxx cards, so they may have blocked you from installing it, since yours is a x1950.