Swansea

My sound issues (crackling static sound) stemmed from my video card. Here's a copy of a post I left in the sound problems forum. I'm pretty excited since the game is now playable... If you have a laptop with an nvidia card this information may help your situation. It appears nvidia barely supports laptop cards (especially older ones as I have a GeForce Go 7300). Anyway, this laptopvideo2go site really helped me out. At first I was using Vista's control panel update button to check the

If you have a laptop with an nvidia card this information may help your situation. It appears nvidia barely supports laptop cards (especially older ones as I have a GeForce Go 7300). Anyway, this laptopvideo2go site really helped me out. At first I was using Vista's control panel update button to check the Internet to see if I had the latest video driver; each time Vista said I was up to date so I figured I was--big mistake as the driver was dated 2006 (I'm assuming Vista thought I was up to

I have the same problem with crackling sound. On the title screen when the planet comes into view my speakers sound like pure static. I went through most of the suggestions by psugar with no success. The only one I couldn't find was #4 Open your user settings and set SoundUseHardware to TRUE. For the life of me I can't find "user settings" from the main menu. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.