my hardware
- Athlon 1ghz
- 384mb ram
- GeForce 2 mx 32mb
- SiS onboard audio (K7S5A Pro)
- Standard PS/2 mouse/keyboard

software
- slackware 10
- alsa 1.05
- SimCity 3000 Unlimited

sc3u -v gives me :
2.0.955a
Built with glibc-2.1 on Oct 26 2000

the latest patch (is it really the latest?!) is instaled : sc3u-2.0a-x86.run

i have tried the "nvidia" driver instead of the "nv" , but i can't watch the main video with the "nvidia" driver
both drivers are giving me the "crackling noise"

what can i do to fix the crackling noise ?

i had a crackling noise from my speakers and i adjusted the pcm slider in volume control.

the sound level is ok ...

anyone has a clue ?

check the slider for the oss mixer as well as alsa

i'm using the gnome sound mixer and all the levels are at the mid-level (oss and alsa)
i don't get any craclkle at the introduction video ( the noise is like a lot of fast little "pops")

anything else i should check ?

I had the same problem for a while. You just have to kill some arts pid, or change the sound drive in kcontrol to something else, ie threaded OSS (what I use.) I'm not sure exactly how I got it to stop, but that should do the trick.

i did "ps -A" while runing the game and there isn't any process runing with the name "arts" or with the word in the name

what is "threaded OSS" and how do i enable it ?

at the command line, type kcontrol,

go to sound & multimedia, -> second tab, and you should see it there. change the device to something else (threaded works great,) and hopefully that will solve it for you.

i used kcontrol to change to threaded oss and i lost all sounds in-game (other programs still had sound)
so i switched back to autodetect and still no sound in-game

only after a reboot i did get sound again but still with the crackling

what should i do ?

i've been googling and i think i found the a person with the same problems as me
alsa problems
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/f...&forum_id=1752

i have the same problem with quake3, no sound at all
i only have sound when i install the OSS drivers but then the game hangs

this guy on sourceforge also has the crackling noise with quake3 once he gets the sound to work


what should i do ?

can i uninstall the alsa drivers and install oss ? ( i don't know how)

thats really weird...I just recommend playing around with settings, since there's not much else to do than walk in the dark. Go ahead and uninstall alsa, and enable threaded OSS. Also, disable 'artsd' then start the game up.