The sound is oof

WHenever I play the sound seem s to skip

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As the subtitle say that whenever I play the sound seem to skip almost as though I have an old record player. Yeah may not hurt game performance but hurts game experience, btw I downladed Dark Avatar from you guy so I don't have a disk.
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Reply #1 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

Make sure that you have the latest sound drivers for your sound card.  If it's an integrated card, you'll probably have to go to the website for your computer's manufacturer or the motherboard's manufacturer for updated drivers.

Also, you can try messing with the sound hardware acceleration to see if that helps. 

If neither of those help, it could be a codec from another program that is causing the problem.  Do you have any media player programs installed other than iTunes or Windows Media Player?  Do you have any of them open while playing GalCiv2?

 

Reply #2 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I'm not sure if this is related, but one of the songs that play during war sounds like it skips back to the beginning part of the way through the song. I don't have any other sound problems at all, but it does it every time, I'm guessing part of the way through as I've never heard the whole song. (It's annoying enough that I reload the game to get different music)

Is there some way to get at the music in the game and listen to it seperately? I have no idea how to explain which song it is otherwise.
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Reply #3 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

If you go to the directory where GalCiv2 is installed, all the music is in the Music or EventMusic folders, and DarkAvatar has its own Music and EventMusic folders as well.

If you paste your debug.err here, we can see if Miles is returning any errors.

 

Reply #4 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I will post the debug.err next if that's apporpriate... but could I just rename or move the offending file?

It's the battle01.mp3 in the original GalCiv event music folder. It links to some other music which just sounds completely off (haven't found that track yet) at the end of its play. battle01 ends on a low note, but wherever it's jumping to starts with a high note, which is annoying to my ear. So apparently there's no error, just a bad linking choice (in my opinion of course!)

Also, what causes the battle01.mp3 to play? Is it war or ship battles? And then, does the next track played start from the beginning or part of the way through?
Reply #5 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

It's definitely played in the fleet battle viewer, and it's randomly chosen from the 3 battle songs.  When you exit the fleetcombat viewer, we have code that detects that there's no background music playing and so picks another song, based on current conditions, etc.

You probably could just move the file.  I don't think that it will cause a problem if it can't find it.