Ack, stop the scratching!

[Causality]

Ok, as you can probably tell my sound is very scratchy when I play certain games. (Not all, which I find odd)

I have downlaoded the latest drivers for my onboard sound, but it didnt help. My sound is still staticy and annoying in certain games. Is there anything I can do? I was considering buying a sound card, thinking it might be a flaw in the onboard.

 

[{PMS}fishy]

ASUS on-board sound is usually pretty good. Is it a bad connection possibly? Try some other speakers, wires, headphones, ect. If it ends up being the MB you could always send it back.

 

[xbiker321]

try using different speakers...if you do not have any extra speakers laying around plug in a pair of headphones and see if the sound is still crappy because your onboard sound card might be fine.

 

[dave4925]

could be a codec problem. I had this problem in mpeg and divx files with mp3 audio, but not in winamp. I uninstalled ALL audio codecs, and reinstalled, and this fixed the problem. My audio sounded more like static than scratchy though.

 

[Causality]

I have narrowed it down to one game causing the problem. Its really annoying too! If I uninstall all my codecs, is there a way to reinstall them? (In XP) I see the option to remove each individually....

 

[Causality]

By the way, I am not using onboard sound anymore. This problem didnt make me buy a sound card, I've been wanting to get 5.1 sound for a while. I'm using a Santa Cruz Turtle Beach and I still get the problem. I think the game is the problem!