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Sound issue makes some fangames unplayable
« on: May 24, 2016, 06:41:03 AM »
A few weeks ago I switched from Windows 10 to Windows 7. Installed all the drivers and everything seemed to be working perfectly, but when I played some Brute or FTFA a message like this message would pop up when loading the game.




When I'm not streaming or recording I usually play with fangame sound off (so I can play other music or watch Twitch/YouTube at the same time), so I didn't care about that error as long as I could play the games. Everything seemed to be fine until I downloaded Fidelity. Whenever I jumped on that game it would lag it a lot, making it almost unplayable. Today I wanted to play Challenge 100 Trials and it was even worse.

I have to say that audio works perfectly on any other program/software other than fangames, so I don't know what could be causing this. I re-installed the audio drivers to see if that worked, but it didn't.

I'll put down here what happens on different games when this error pops up.

FTFA: Mixer track doesn't appear till I jump or shoot. Jump and death sounds work perfectly. Shooting lags it.

Brute: Mixer track won't appear. No lag but no sound.

Fidelity: Mixer track appears from the beginning. Jumping/shooting/dying stops music and lags the game. The more frequent these sounds are, the more laggy and unplayable it gets. Music restarts after pressing R but it takes more than 1 second to load (maybe it's normal).

Challenge 100 Trials: Pretty much the same as Fidelity except that it's a lot more laggy (maybe because music instantly reloads after playing the shoot/jump sound, not when restarting like with Fidelity) and that mixer track appears when first sound is played, like with FTFA.


By the way, games made with GM:S work perfectly so far (Simple Needle, JTool), they don't even give me that error message. Oh, and I'm using a thing called EqualizerAPO, but I don't think that does anything to fangames.

I hope this info can help. Thanks in advance.




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Re: Sound issue makes some fangames unplayable
« Reply #1 on: May 24, 2016, 12:19:22 PM »
This happened to me a while back; I think I solved it by plugging a speaker/headphones/sound connector on my keyboard to the audio plug in the back of my computer.

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Re: Sound issue makes some fangames unplayable
« Reply #2 on: May 25, 2016, 04:17:38 AM »
I use an USB-to-jack thing since my actual jack input is broken. I unplugged it and plugged it again and on different ports and it didn't work. :(

Looks like now it even lags FTFA at some points and I can somehow 2f consistently but all the other jumps are different for me to do since it's like if I was playing a fangame with alternate physics. And with jumps like gates or super Fs for some reason I'll just 2f or 3f instead of 5f. This really sucks and I hope it can be fixed soon. I haven't practiced FTFA much cause I've been really busy and I have to run it in a few weeks for the FGM. Please, help me. :BibleThump:
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Re: Sound issue makes some fangames unplayable
« Reply #3 on: May 26, 2016, 02:15:44 PM »
I use an USB-to-jack thing since my actual jack input is broken.

Sounds like that could be what's causing the problem, either it doesn't like your USB to jack thing or the jack being broken. Have you tried it with the USB thing unplugged?

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Re: Sound issue makes some fangames unplayable
« Reply #4 on: May 26, 2016, 03:37:31 PM »
Tried it but doesn't work :(
I had played fangames with w7 on this pc before upgrading to w10 and they worked perfectly, idk what could be going wrong.
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Re: Sound issue makes some fangames unplayable
« Reply #5 on: May 26, 2016, 03:59:01 PM »
hmm, you could maybe try replacing the dmsynth file like in this thread, Win 10 might have similar problem to Windows 8  https://www.iwannacommunity.com/forum/index.php?topic=1387.15

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Re: Sound issue makes some fangames unplayable
« Reply #6 on: June 01, 2016, 02:59:26 AM »
Ok, fixed it by reinstalling w7. Cool.
Thanks for the help anyway, I appreciate it.
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