ROTR 1.86 freezing, With audio looping very slowly advancing Options

[firetiger]

What a great mod guys! congrats!
I'm running it on an ASUS Crosshair, Athlon X2 6400+, 3Gb RAM, geforce 9500gt (quite old I know) running Win10 x32, it works perfectly!
But from time to time the game completely freezes and I hear the sound looping, while minutes run the loop seems to be moving forward little by little (I mean, the audio advances a little bit but keeps looping frozen) while the game freezes completely.
I've unchecked Window's indexing feature on game folder, I've changed documents/C&C.../replays folder's permission to read only (no replays but less lag) but the sound problem is driving me crazy.


What could I try?

[firetiger]

[EDIT]

I've read somewhere that there's an option called "High Quality Audio" that can be disabled... Can't find it yet, even inside de INI's...

Is that so?

[firetiger]

Well... looks like nobody knows the answer... Here's more data, the game just crashed (it closed mid-game without error message) and this is Window's event viewer data:

EVENT 1:
Nombre de la aplicación con errores: game.dat, versión: 0.0.0.0, marca de tiempo: 0x4230c05b
Nombre del módulo con errores: game.dat, versión: 0.0.0.0, marca de tiempo: 0x4230c05b
Código de excepción: 0xc0000005
Desplazamiento de errores: 0x000b266e
Identificador del proceso con errores: 0x5790
Hora de inicio de la aplicación con errores: 0x01d24f23dee4a2fd
Ruta de acceso de la aplicación con errores: D:\Progs y juegos\Command & Conquer Generals Zero Hour\game.dat
Ruta de acceso del módulo con errores: D:\Progs y juegos\Command & Conquer Generals Zero Hour\game.dat
Identificador del informe: 1f0e7792-ba2b-4da7-99a9-2d44ba9a2fb6
Nombre completo del paquete con errores:
Identificador de aplicación relativa del paquete con errores:


EVENT 2:
Depósito con errores 703288855, tipo 1
Nombre de evento: APPCRASH
Respuesta: No disponible
Identificador de archivo CAB: 0

Firma del problema:
P1: game.dat
P2: 0.0.0.0
P3: 4230c05b
P4: game.dat
P5: 0.0.0.0
P6: 4230c05b
P7: c0000005
P8: 000b266e
P9:
P10:

(Google translate will help if spanish isn't your thing)

[Skitt]

sound loops are generally an engine issue, something that can't be fixed, we all get them at times.

[Zeke]

But from time to time the game completely freezes and I hear the sound looping

It probably means your hardware is not up to the task.

My old PC did this whenever it reached its "limit". Once I got a new PC, this stopped happening.

If you haven't already, try running the game in the lowest setting (custom setting with everything turned off except "disable dynamic level of detail", the sliders at the lowest setting, and 800x600 resolution) and see if the game works then.

This post has been edited by Zeke: 6 Dec 2016, 6:13

[firetiger]

It probably means your hardware is not up to the task.

u Think so? I've played games like Battlefield 3 on this rig perfectly... (of course, ultra low settings... have mercy on us the poor 3rd world gamers)

Tried lowest graphics settings and lower resolution... but I notice no performance improvement... The game runs smooth as before except for when there's a lot of units moving... looks like it hogs the processor (3Ghz should do huh?)

I'm starting to think the engine was poorly programmed... lots of performance improvements are missing.

[Arc]

That's exactly the problem. SAGE engine is really poorly optimised, you can have super-high end setups and it STILL has rather lowish framerates.