A sound error which you may not have seen before...

[Lord Roland]

Hey, i was fiddling around with my sound options, and the game crashed. I can't remember what i changed exactly but now the game will get a fatal error as soon as i boot it up, i dont even see the intro vids, and i dont have the chance to change any settings ingame. I'm running it off steam at the moment.
Here is the blackbox report:

=========================
DARWINIA BLACK BOX REPORT
=========================

VERSION : win32-full-steam-1.5.10
ERROR : 'DirectSound ERROR
..\..\code\sound\sound_library_3d_dsound.cpp line 281

Direct sound couldn't start playing a stream
Error Code : E_OUTOFMEMORY
Ran out of memory
Last error: Insufficient system resources exist to complete the requested service.

(1450)'

=========================
====== PREFERENCES ======
=========================

ServerAddress = 127.0.0.1
BypassNetwork = 1
IAmAServer = 1
TextLanguage = english
TextSpeed = 15
HelpEnabled = 0
SoundLibrary = dsound
SoundMixFreq = 22050
SoundMasterVolume = 255
SoundChannels = 32
SoundHW3D = 0
SoundSwapStereo = 0
SoundMemoryUsage = 1
SoundBufferSize = 512
SoundDSP = 1
ScreenWindowed = 0
ScreenZDepth = 24
RenderLandscapeDetail = 1
RenderWaterDetail = 3
RenderBuildingDetail = 2
RenderEntityDetail = 2
RenderCloudDetail = 1
RenderPixelShader = 0
ControlMouseButtons = 3
ControlMethod = 1
BootLoader = random
UserProfile = NewUser
RenderSpecialLighting = 0
Difficulty = 1
LargeMenus = 0
ScreenHeight = 768
CurrentGameMode = 1
AutomaticCamera = 0
ScreenColourDepth = 32
ScreenRefresh = 60
ScreenWidth = 1024
ControlHelpEnabled = 1

=========================
====== STACKTRACE =======
=========================

retAddress = 0041C40A

(end report)

please help me, ive gotten really far and i dont want to have to reinstall. Thanks in advance

[estel]

What are your system specs?

[xander]

There is a file in your Darwinia directory (or should be, anyway) called preferences.txt. You can change your settings by changing that file. In the past, this error has been linked to problems with Hardware 3D Sound and Realtime FX. I would make sure that these two options are set to 0 in preferences.txt, like so:

Code: Select all

SoundHW3D = 0
SoundDSP = 0

However, I have not heard of this occurring on start. Generally, it happens once you are playing in a level with red DGs. Thus, I am not overly optimistic about this solution.

xander

[Lord Roland]

well you should have been optimistic, cause it fixes the problem straight away thankyou very much

[xander]

well you should have been optimistic, cause it fixes the problem straight away :) thankyou very much

No worries. Glad I could help.

xander