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    my sound

    i play 3 main computer games. half life 2, city of heroes, and americas army. all of them are updated with patches and stuff. my sound on my computer works perfectly fine no problems and when i go to play city of heroes it works fine. but when i play half life 2 the sound goes for about 5 min's then shuts off and the peoples mouths stop moving and in americas army the sound shuts off about 10 seconds in to the game. i ran the DxDiag sound tests and it failed. does anyone know what the problem could be?
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    OK....has this just started happening since the last game install? and, have you tried to update the direct X version. as well these tests could fail from older outdated sound and video drivers but i would make sure that your DX version is update first to at least 8.1

    game requirement suggestions are
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    DX 8.1 or better and a card that can take it.

    Those are just a few things I would look at first. If all that is met and you could play fine previously, then I would start looking to recent changes you may have made to your system, or is this a different system altogether now? Just a few questions to throw out to begin with.
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    this problem has happened with half life 2 but with americas army its worse. and also even when i do exit the game it makes my whole computer sound not to work. but when i restart my comp again it works. I have the latest version of Direct X. 9.0c. and my drivers are updated best for my computer.

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    Re: my sound

    Originally posted by j0lly r0ger
    i ran the DxDiag sound tests and it failed.
    Any hints as to what it failed with ?

    As good as we are we can't read your mind or your computers display to see what the failure message is.

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    Well when i restart comp (thats when the sound works) i take the DxDiag tests and its successful and if i play the game and the sound goes off and i try the tests i fail. Could the problem be my sound card?

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    try turning down the hardware acceleration from full to standard
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