recordings without sound

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why are people making recordings without sound. just leave the sound on

-- brad (cmdrtsl@earthlink.net), April 11, 2001

Answers

Some games don't work with sound, some people are distracted by the sound, and some people would rather listen to MP3s.

-- Kaidi Echitra (peng@demongate.ath.cx), April 12, 2001.

Speed at which the game runs is an issue too. Most games, if not all, run faster without sound. Some games are unplayable on a large percentage of slower computers if you play with sound.

I wonder why no one plays goalx3 with sound though..... hmmm I never saw a difference.

-- Zylquin (zylquin@hotmail.com), April 12, 2001.


Some games can't be played back when they are recorded with sound, goalx3 (and a lot of the soccer games for some reason) have this attribute. Also just because people record with out sound doesn't mean you have to play their games back with out sound. For most cases you CAN playback a recording with sound when it was recorded with out sound, but not always...

-- Chad (churritz@cts.com), April 12, 2001.

In a perfect world, we'd all have Athlon 1Ghz. processors, with the best hardware known to man. Unfortunately, there are still people out there that can't run with sound on and get a good framerate *cough*myself*cough* :)

Also, and BBH and Vaz will say it's sacrilegious (spell check?) of me, but sound isn't everything :)

- J.D.

-- J.D. Lowe (jedidrunkenllama@hotmail.com), April 12, 2001.


then explain why my 1ghz t-bird (which is basically athlon) with a geforce2 mx has to frameskip ~ FS 4 on stun runner? (with midas 22050 sound, no stretch, MAME32 b13, no triplebuffer)

or is this normal for a processor like this ??

-- david oliver (pimpdavid@mail.com), April 12, 2001.



Stun Runner with sound takes up a WHOLE lot of processing time. There's some frameskip on my 850 mhz. (Little enough I can play it, but the sound is not that exciting in the first place.)

-- jbd (jdyer41@aol.com), April 12, 2001.

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