Strange sound from computer when playing Fallout Tactics

Well its only in fallout tactics and no other games whatsoever so im pretty sure its not a hardware problem :)

Besides i usually do regular maintenence on my hardware so if anything was faulty i would know:)
 
Noticed that its the arrow shaped mousepointer used in menues ets that is the cause. when i move it out of the screen (to the bottom for example) so itt disapears the sound stop. anyone have a clue?
 
Try switching between hardware and software modes for your cursor in the display options.

Failing that update your sound drivers, video codecs etc.

And remember to use the edit function,

edityourpost

and don't double post in future.
 
allready tested those things didnt help. though the 1.27 patch changed the times when the sound appears. from the perks menue and main menue to main menu and the travel map....

And though uppdating sound drivers might have helped if it was a sound isue i dont think it will help when the sound is coming from the comp and not the speakers (though i do have the latest drivers) realy weird imo, not game stopping though.
 
Sounds to me that you are facing a resolution issue, When your monitor is out of range with the refresh rate you will hear a EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE sound. try changing your forced resolution on your computer.

An example for me is rainbow six 3 PC, it makes that sound at the main menu and the gear selection screen but the game itself is fine.
 
I got exactly the same problem. I can confirm that it has nothing to do with the resoultion (out of range), nor the sound/speakers, nor with the DVD drive.

It comes somewhere from the pc, I would guess the mainboard, maybe the power supply, the graphics card or the harddrive (although I don't think that it's the harddrive).

It's strange, the noise changes as soon as you move the mouse. Never had such a problem before, just this game.

Using google I found another post with someone having the same problem.

http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.aspx?catid=32&threadid=2245508
 
Firstly i'd like to chime in here

because i'm new to Fallout Tactics having just installed it..

This is a real problem, but it's NOT the gfx card or anything for me.

MAYBE there is a noise on the graphics card, but I don't hear it over my fans and usual noise... so it doesn't really worry me.

However I think it probably has to do with onboard sound perhaps? Are you using a PCI card? I have a pro sound card for audio production which doesn't like this game, so I have been using my onboard audio..

And for 1.27, win xp sp3, latest driver for via audio, i can hear the distortion.

It's like plugging in a bad cable into the microphone input and turning on mic boost and volume all the way up, but not so bad or as loud as that for me.

But still REALLY irritating.

Just get the game to work finally (had black screen hangs at start, and for a number of other games, I never figured it out (7600 GS nvidia) but finallllly I found out to DISABLE 'WRITE COMBINING' in display settings/advanced/settings area, and seems to not hang with monitor shutting off like its an unsupported resolution or something.

So I got it to work, but now am confronted with a game that makes a horrible noise when you are at main screen. And you also mention this is on the travel map, joy! Lucky I don't spend too long on there in other fallout games.

I might just turn my headphones down when I'm doing map travel

oh, also, if it IS a component such as audio or graphics making a physical noise inside the case, this could be picked up by the soundcard, like how on poor quality laptop soundcards, while recording line in, you can often still get CPU noise in the recording.

As soon as I minimise to windows it goes away.

It doesn't sound like hardware noise to me though, it really sounds like distortion in the sound design, some bad effect or programming error or incompatibility with new sound drivers that causes this.

I don't see much hope with fixing this.

edit:

Okay so I checked the actual game, I fixed the graphics crash it's playing now, so that's very exciting for me (time to reinstall armed assault again, perhaps also america's army 3!!) .. but the audio is SUPER annoying. It's a programming glitch. If you send your audio output to a mixer, and turn the gain up heaps, even on windows desktop, you can hear the mouse a slight 'whirring' noise as you move the mouse around, and a permanent wailing distortion noise. This is the sound from your fans etc. Somehow with newer soundcards, Tactics seems to have some problem.

It's gaining the sound from the mouse movements.. somewhere in the coding there is +12db gain for the menu in some aspect perhaps (just guessing I have never programmed code). It just sounds from an audio engineering perspective that the code is broke and is gaining the background noise of the soundcard. Perhaps in order to attain silence in sound code you need to actually specify a -infinity (negative infinity) gain settings for when you want silence in your game, otherwise perhaps the system audio interferes..

never had this with anything else though. Something very weird happening here.
 
Necro-bumping this, since I just reinstalled FT and I hear the exact same whine whenever there are menus involved (and moving the mouse off of the menu causes the whine to change pitch).

Very weird.
 
Necro indeed...


Anyway I'm not an expert in that stuff but I think your computer needs an exorcist.



Just kidding, have you tried the sound patch? It can be found on the NMA files for download.
 
For Deadrat at least, you might have a look at this list, and see if you've previously installed any of these games on your system.

The Starforce copy protection software can reportedly cause physical problems with optic drives. The site's main page is here. While this is old news to many gamers, I figured it couldn't hurt to mention, as it might be connected to your problems.

Of course, even if it is, removing starforce from your system won't reverse physical damage already done, but if the noise is being generated by hardware, at least you'll know what caused it.
 
Judici said:
Hello,

I have a problem with Fallout tactics, as soon as I start the game my computer start to sound strange. It’s hard to explain how it sounds, the best way I could describe it is to say that it’s constant and sound like the computer scratch the dvd inside, but that’s not the case because it sounds the same when I don’t have the dvd inside (on the “insert disk” message).

The game itself works fine, or at least I think so because I’ve only been on the main screen because the sound form the computer sounds VERY unhealthy to it. One note is that the sound change when I change resolution, but all version of the sound sounds still unhealthy for the computer.

I don’t have the original game, but a “Fallout collection” from GSP. The other games (Fallout and Fallout 2) works just fine, without this problem.

I also have another question. Every time I start the game it says that I have to register it to be able to play on the Internet, even if I already done that. But it was on the GSP site I registered on, because it’s the site I get too when I press “register”. Only because I bought the GSP version of the game, dose that mean that I can’t register my game and can’t play multiplayer over the Internet (if that’s still possible)?

Thanks for reading. I know that it’s not nice to cry for help on the first post you write on a forum, but I would really like to try Fallout tactics out because I loved the two first games (even if this isn’t a RPG).

Best regards, Judici
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You don't happen to own a g80, g92 or derivates thereof (geforce 8800, 9800, gtx260,280 etc.)?

In case you do than you don't have to worry for due to the inductors used for the majority of those cards these tend to emit high frequency noises. The volume or rather the audibility increases the higher the framerate. (which is usually the case when playing fot, I'm talking 200fps+) Although it is annoying and personally I find it unacceptable it is not a malfuction just an unwanted side effect of the rather cheap inductors used on those cards.
I aslo heard some reports of some hd4xxx series card (ati radeon) showing similar effects.

c to the heers

ah crist who the hamburger turdburglerd this out of the abyss..ah well maybe some other random guy has the same problem
 
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