Hi all. Gee, I finally get a copy of The Kilrathi Saga from a co-worker and the movie playback is terrible! In fact, WC3 and WC4 windows versions do the same thing: They pop, echo and have interference badly.
Unfortunately, it is NOT solved by SOUND CARD ACCELERATION, as is the cure with Prophecy (where my skips are infrequent anyway). When I adjust that, is has no effect - except for no acceleration, which produces an even worse result of bad stuttering, popping and stopping! This problem is reduced by the alt-enter windowing option, but it still happens bad enough to ruin the experience.
This only happens in the Windows versions of WC3 & 4. I have both DOS games and the movies play fine with them - perfectly. It is only in K-Saga and WC4_Win95. The sound in the game itself is fine.
Here's what I've tried: Various sound card and sampling rate combinations, disabling graphics acceleration, The command line switches "-d", "no_sound", "no_interlace", and shutting down other running programs including anti-virus. My guess is that it may have to do with DirectX, since that is one thing that is different between Windows and DOS versions. I am able to run both WC 3 and 4 DOS under Windows, although getting 3 to work took me a long time. For what it's worth, the WC4 demo movies play fine under Windows, as did WC3's demo, back when I could get that to work.
My specs: Win 98 1st Ed, HP 400 Celeron, Intel 810i chip, Rockwell Riptide sound card/modem combination, 192 MB RAM, and DirectX 8.1 (wish I could go back to 8.0).
Any Ideas would be greatly appreciated! Thanks.
Unfortunately, it is NOT solved by SOUND CARD ACCELERATION, as is the cure with Prophecy (where my skips are infrequent anyway). When I adjust that, is has no effect - except for no acceleration, which produces an even worse result of bad stuttering, popping and stopping! This problem is reduced by the alt-enter windowing option, but it still happens bad enough to ruin the experience.
This only happens in the Windows versions of WC3 & 4. I have both DOS games and the movies play fine with them - perfectly. It is only in K-Saga and WC4_Win95. The sound in the game itself is fine.
Here's what I've tried: Various sound card and sampling rate combinations, disabling graphics acceleration, The command line switches "-d", "no_sound", "no_interlace", and shutting down other running programs including anti-virus. My guess is that it may have to do with DirectX, since that is one thing that is different between Windows and DOS versions. I am able to run both WC 3 and 4 DOS under Windows, although getting 3 to work took me a long time. For what it's worth, the WC4 demo movies play fine under Windows, as did WC3's demo, back when I could get that to work.
My specs: Win 98 1st Ed, HP 400 Celeron, Intel 810i chip, Rockwell Riptide sound card/modem combination, 192 MB RAM, and DirectX 8.1 (wish I could go back to 8.0).
Any Ideas would be greatly appreciated! Thanks.
