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First post, by Lys

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I am trying to run strife with sound on XP SP2. It is patched up to the latest, and I have no problems with windows sound. The sound is intergrated, called "soundmax digital audio"

I've tried 1.2.0 beta, and the last official, with updates. There is a very noticeable stutting in the sound. I've tried Lands of Lore 1, and the same stuttering happens. I've tried setting the buffer time to a higher amount, but the stuttering remains.

Any tips on how to fix this? It is making the games unplayable.

Reply 1 of 4, by eL_PuSHeR

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Try tinkering with advanced options such as cap dos timer frequency and try to use a lower cpu value.

Intel i7 5960X
Gigabye GA-X99-Gaming 5
8 GB DDR4 (2100)
8 GB GeForce GTX 1070 G1 Gaming (Gigabyte)

Reply 2 of 4, by Jiri

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You can use ZDoom http://zdoom.org/download.html or Vavoom http://www.vavoom-engine.com/ for Strife. The game should work also in DOSBox (but I did not test it). Lands of Lore works fine in DOSBox.

Reply 3 of 4, by HunterZ

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When I last tried those source ports several months ago, they each had quirks. Still, it was a lot better than running in DOSBox (and VDMSound too probably).

Reply 4 of 4, by Jiri

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I also tried Vavoom several months ago and yes, there were some glitches - but not too big and the game was playable. I guess that these bugs were probably fixed in newer versions.
I tested ZDoom last month and Strife worked just fine - though I played only part of the game. (Lys, ZDoom is in cab archive - extract it, put the files into the Strife directory and run zdoom.exe. And I would recommend to have enabled "always mouselook" in the options.)

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