For older hardware and OSs ask in Marvin Marvin, the Paranoid Android

Have you tried dgVoodoo? (Yes, it would be strange for the graphics drivers to be interfering with sound playback, but I have seen something like that happen before.)

barfingjake wrote:

I've tried disabling a core in the task manager, but it just freezes the whole desktop.

You mean by setting the affinity for the process?

I tried using dgvoodoo with Rogue Squadron when I was trying to get it to run in a higher resolution, but I couldn't get it to work. Is there a version that's compatible with XP? I did try wine with the game, but it didn't do anything.

And yes, I set the affinity to one core. It just crashes the game and the whole desktop freezes for some reason.

The desktop-freezing thing is strange. Perhaps it would work better if you used a utility that sets the affinity before the process is launched?

I forget what the optimal way of doing that is. A moment of Googling suggests http://www.adsciengineering.com/StartAffinity/ and https://www.portablefreeware.com/?id=1393 .

I tried THG, but it doesn't work. I do everything instructed, but the program just starts with both cores set. I can't figure out how to use StartAffinity at all. They gave little to no instructions on what I'm supposed to do. Too confusing for me.

I even tried setting it to one core in the shortcut target, but it just flashes the command prompt and does nothing. The game doesn't even start.

What sucks is that I really think that is what's causing the sound issue, because I disable one of the cores while the game was running with Process Hacker, and waited (for about an hour) for the game to go to the menu, because disabling a core causes so much of a performance drop that's unplayable. But I did however hear some of the menu music, a second of it looping over and over again.

I don't know what to do about this game.

Okay, I just tried another program, called Launch N' Set. It allowed me to start the game with only one core set.

UNFORTUNATELY, the performance still dropped significantly, and there was still no sound. 😒

I don't know, this game seems to use quite a lot of the CPU. It's usually maxxed out at about 99% in the task manager. 17 year old game doing this doesn't make a whole lot of sense.

Ok I've just tried naboo on xp sp3
dell latitude d430 (dual core) https://www.cnet.com/products/dell-latitude-d … e-series/specs/
and it works fine there is no dual core problem
back in the day I played it on a hyperthreaded cpu

What if you completely disable NVidia HD Audio in your Device Manager?

I had it disabled on my old video card, and I think there was still no sound. However, after upgrading to a GT 730, I tried to disable the Nvidia HD audio, and I got a BSD.

I will try it again.

Well, it didn't BSD this time after disabling them. But still no sound.

Of the 50 or so games I have installed on my PC, this is the only one to do this. I really don't get it. The game itself runs fine, I've even got it running in 1920x1080. But there's just no sound.

your installing from the original cd ?

Yes. I've tried from two different copies.

Have you ever been able to get the game to run correctly, i.e. by disabling sound entirely?

I might suggest trying to get a cheap USB sound device. (There's not necessarily anything wrong with those.)

His game runs correctly but without sound
My laptop uses intel hd audio
and my pc years ago used either a sblive or an audigy

USB sound device? I'm not familiar, like an adapter?

I forgot to mention that I've run the game through both onboard sound and through my TV via HDMI (from the NVIDIA card). Both had no sound output.

I've reinstalled the Intel drivers and Direct X 9.0c, but it did nothing.

here
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/like/172488784120?l … 38081070&crdt=0

just make sure the card has drivers for xp the one above does