Is there a known method for dealing with the Vista audio clicking issue, other than installing an XP driver on Vista, which seems quite counter-intuitive to me.

Any Guildies with a true Tech Support method for fixing this?

As of now, this is the limiting factor for me subscribing to the game. I need clean sound to appreciate the game and will wait until I can fix this for purchasing a few months of gameplay.

Thanks much.

I'm working on a fix for this.

Good to know. :)

Thanks much!

I have been using Vista full-time for at least half a year now. For developers, Vista has been RTM for nearly a year now (coming up in November). It's not like I'm going to just uninstall and go back to XP for a while while Vista gets more stable, as that time has already come and gone.

This looks like a great game but I have to turn sound completely off as the choppiness makes the game unbearable.

So I'm really very glad to know that you're working on this.

That was me, btw. I switched machines and I couldn't find a download link without creating a new account, so I created a bogus one. Once I did that, you guys don't provide a Log Out link on your web site. So I had to clear my cookies and ....

... nevermind.

There is a Log Out link on the left-side menu under Your Account. It's the last link in the group.

Re-hi

I've been trying various sound driver updates (without installing WinXP ones) to no change.

Is there anything that us Vista users can do to help you Guildies fix the problem?

Cheers,

I'm adding a set of parameters to config.ini that you can use to try different settings. They will be in the update.

Thanks a ton, RB!

Any news on this?

ill be using a vista laptop for a year or so so i would love if this bug gets fixed

music is unbearable sound effects are at 4 its quiet but the clicks are alot quieter :)

[wavsound]
bufsize=4096
numbufs=2

This is the section and two new parameters for the config.ini file and their default values if not present.

Try adding these 3 lines to your config.ini and changing the numbufs from 2 to 3 (or more). This will add a bit of latency to the sound effects, but I want to know if this stops the clicking.
You can try lowering bufsize while increasing numbufs to try to reduce latency, but at a cost of increased processing power when a buffer fills up.
The bufsize is in samples, where 1 sample is 4 bytes for 16bit stereo sound.

If setting numbufs to 3 or 4 doesn't help, try setting it back to 2 and change bufsize to 8192 or something. Again, this will introduce audio lag but it's more of a test to see what helps.

Increasing the bufsize to 8192 and seting numbufs to 4 settled the problem for me.

Cheers RB!

woooooo :D

The same settings that BCOProwler used fixed mine. Yayz! =D

[wavsound]
bufsize=8192
numbufs=4

.. fixed it for me too

[wavsound]
bufsize=8192
numbufs=4

Works pretty well for me, unless the graphics are under heavy strain, e.g. flying into storms.

Thanks everyone. I will work with this info.

Don't know if this will help anyone, but I have been having the same clicking sound issue. I fiddled with the settings suggested in this thread and could change how often the clicks happened. At one point I got to the stage whereby the clicks stopped but the sound was delayed by about 2 seconds.

Anyhoo, after fiddling about some more I just used the following setting:

[wavsound]
numbufs=8

I didn't put in the bufsize change and this has fixed the problem for me. Might not work for everyone but is worth a try if you are getting the problem.

Did you try this instead?

http://www.vendetta-online.com/x/msgboard/4/17451#225710