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Original Message
Name: shakushinnen
Date: July 20, 2008 at 05:37:08 Pacific
Subject: Distorted sound with visualizations
OS: XP pro
CPU/Ram: pIII/sd
Model/Manufacturer: Franky
Comment:

Hi,
When I turn on visualizations in WMP 10, the sound comes out distorted. (I've tried other media players, and they don't do this.) One of the suggestions I've run across is to turn of the equalizer, via the WPM 'tools' menu, but my WMP doesn't have a 'tools' menu. Anyone have any suggestions?
Thanks,
...... john

shinnen@shinnen.ca


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Response Number 1
Name: aegis
Date: July 20, 2008 at 09:25:13 Pacific
Subject: Distorted sound with visualizations
Reply: (edit)

Just a guess!!! Go to the Control Panel > Sound and Audio Devices > Audio tab > Advanced button > Performance tab and try tweaking the 'Hardware acceleration'.


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Response Number 2
Name: shakushinnen
Date: July 20, 2008 at 13:56:17 Pacific
Subject: Distorted sound with visualizations
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Thanks for your reply Aegis.
I just deleted the second windows directory I had, and that solved the problem.
Thanks,
...... john

shinnen@shinnen.ca


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Response Number 3
Name: aegis
Date: July 20, 2008 at 15:37:11 Pacific
Subject: Distorted sound with visualizations
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That's pretty weird! Thanks for posting back with the fix. :-)


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Response Number 4
Name: shakushinnen
Date: July 20, 2008 at 20:41:28 Pacific
Subject: Distorted sound with visualizations
Reply: (edit)

Hi Aegis,
What happened was that I took an xp installation drive from another computer and installed xp overtop of it in another system. During the installation xp must have saved the old installation as 'windows' and installed the new installation under 'windows.0'. I tried everything I could to stop the distortion, and discovered that with the visualizations off, there was not distortion. I may well have been able to cure it some other way, but I wanted to remove the old intatallation files, (That's another story.) and noticed that, after doing that, I no longer had distortion in media player. So, who knows what actually fixed it??
...... john

shinnen@shinnen.ca


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