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Drewfus posted 03-05-99 10:19 PM ET
I just installed the 2.0 patch, and everything works wonderfully except for one small problem. It seems that all sound/noise that once came out of my speakers while playing SMAC has ceasced to exist. It worked fine before I installed the v2.0 patch and hasn't worked since, even after I fiddled with the sound controlls in preferences. Any suggestions?
Maki posted 03-07-99 01:37 AM ET
this happend to me too, but without the patch. when loading certain saved games, there is no more music. All sound effects do work, but no music. �'ve got the german version.
Frank Weese posted 03-07-99 04:13 AM ET
Same here, German version, music vanishes completely.
Frank
MrSpkr posted 03-08-99 04:32 PM ET
Same here. I want some of the features from the 2.0 patch, but I have NO in game sound with it. The preview movies work fine, however.
I am running a P2-400 with 128 MB RAM and a SBPCI 64 sound card. These are industry standards and SHOULD work, shouldn't they?
MrSpkr
Scavenger posted 03-13-99 11:31 AM ET
After playing the game for 3 weeks without any serious problems, the sound for my entire system no longer works with any program EXCEPT SMAC! I have not installed the patch.
When trying to initialize sound or play WAV's, I get a message stating my sound card is in use. I have bought and installed a brand new PCI sound card and have the same problem! I have no hardware conflicts, no (apparent) DirectX problems, and even checked my Registry for problems, all to no avail. There are also no settings for audio in my AC.ini file. What bothers me most is that the brand new sound card also does not work except while playing SMAC! Any ideas? I'm thinking somehow SMAC did not close properly and hosed my sound setup while doing so, but the other prob's in this forum point to more issues that Fireaxis needs to fix.
P133 w/64MB RAM
4MB PCI Nitro3D Video card
2MB PCI Ensoniq Audio
Jeffrey Morris FIRAXIS posted 03-13-99 12:42 PM ET
It's misdetecting your soundcard as EAX compatible. Set both EAX and DS3D to 0 in the alpha centauri.ini file.
jkm
firaxis games
temeraire posted 03-14-99 08:04 AM ET
What is EAX and ds3d anyway? I have the same problem with a Yamaha XG192 that works perfectly with everything else. I also two sound bites on top of each other at times.
Dave Milford posted 03-14-99 06:08 PM ET
DS3D is Direct Sound 3D I believe.
EAX is Environmental Audio (I think)
BTW, if your sound still doesnt work, try switching the IRQ on your sound card. Mine wasnt working in AC, but was everywhere else. I switched from IRQ 5 to IRQ 7 and sound worked again. It told me that the printer was using IRQ 7, but when I rebooted the printer went to IRQ 5.
Dave
Scavenger posted 03-15-99 02:10 AM ET
An interesting sound update!
After fiddling around with this for more than a day, I finally came across some advice to rename my RMM.PDR file to RMM.OLD and reboot. (This file can be found in the WINDOWS\SYSTEM\IOSUBSYS directory) . Success!!!!! I now have all of my sound back! (On the original card too)
I'm not recommending everyone do this because I personally have no idea how or why this affected my system (or how it may affect yours) except to say that everything is back to normal on my system, Try this at your own risk, if at all. For the patch users, I don't think I recommend this at all except as a last resort.
Jeff: Any opinions on if this was game or hardware related? I tried the RMM idea because I was also getting a Windows IOS error---which started after the sound incident.
Manu posted 03-15-99 08:32 AM ET
I have some Music problems too.
To be more precise I had absolutely no
music either with version 1.0 nor with
version 2.0 ( german ). FX's are running
fine. I have an old AWE 32 Soundblaster
card ( ISA-Slot ) and the music of
all other games I have works fine.
The music of the SMAC demo I downloaded a couple of months ago did work, but the full version did not. I have set the eax and
3dsd switches in the .ini file to 0
but this didn't help. Please do fix
this problem with the next patch ( 3.0 ).
mazzoldi posted 03-15-99 03:02 PM ET
Same problem here, with interesting variations. I'm using the UK version under Win95 and I've installed patch 2.0. At this point the sound went. Removed patch, sound came back. Reinstalled patch, sound gone. Then I changed the .ini file text, and the sound was still gone. I also reinstalled DirectX from the SMAC CD. Then I changed the IRQ for the sound card (SoundBlaster AWE), and things got funny. Now sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. I haven't been able to work out a regularity of any kind. Most times it doesn't work, but sometimes it does (ah, yes: the sound in the movies *always* works).
Now I'm going to try the last suggestion posted (renaming RMM.PDR --> RMM.OLD), let's see what happens.
Very puzzled...
Jeffrey Morris FIRAXIS posted 03-15-99 03:04 PM ET
For the no music people: Did you leave the sound on the CD? Try copying the \fx folder from the CD into the game's folder on the HD.
jkm
firaxis games
Manu posted 03-16-99 02:48 AM ET
Message for Firaxis.
The FX Folder is on the HD.
To make sure the installation program hasn't
made any mystake I copied the complete
Fx folder to the HD, but I still have
no music.
Alexis posted 03-16-99 05:13 AM ET
Same problem as Manu - in fact it only dawned on me that the game had music when I read the troubleshooting forum
AMD K6-400, SB PCI-64, STB 128ZX AGP graphics, 64MB RAM, US Win98, German SMAC with patch (if this helps )
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Author	Topic: Umm, where did the sound go?
Drewfus	posted 03-05-99 10:19 PM ET I just installed the 2.0 patch, and everything works wonderfully except for one small problem. It seems that all sound/noise that once came out of my speakers while playing SMAC has ceasced to exist. It worked fine before I installed the v2.0 patch and hasn't worked since, even after I fiddled with the sound controlls in preferences. Any suggestions?
Maki	posted 03-07-99 01:37 AM ET this happend to me too, but without the patch. when loading certain saved games, there is no more music. All sound effects do work, but no music. �'ve got the german version.
Frank Weese	posted 03-07-99 04:13 AM ET Same here, German version, music vanishes completely. Frank
MrSpkr	posted 03-08-99 04:32 PM ET Same here. I want some of the features from the 2.0 patch, but I have NO in game sound with it. The preview movies work fine, however. I am running a P2-400 with 128 MB RAM and a SBPCI 64 sound card. These are industry standards and SHOULD work, shouldn't they? MrSpkr
Scavenger	posted 03-13-99 11:31 AM ET After playing the game for 3 weeks without any serious problems, the sound for my entire system no longer works with any program EXCEPT SMAC! I have not installed the patch. When trying to initialize sound or play WAV's, I get a message stating my sound card is in use. I have bought and installed a brand new PCI sound card and have the same problem! I have no hardware conflicts, no (apparent) DirectX problems, and even checked my Registry for problems, all to no avail. There are also no settings for audio in my AC.ini file. What bothers me most is that the brand new sound card also does not work except while playing SMAC! Any ideas? I'm thinking somehow SMAC did not close properly and hosed my sound setup while doing so, but the other prob's in this forum point to more issues that Fireaxis needs to fix. P133 w/64MB RAM 4MB PCI Nitro3D Video card 2MB PCI Ensoniq Audio
Jeffrey Morris FIRAXIS	posted 03-13-99 12:42 PM ET It's misdetecting your soundcard as EAX compatible. Set both EAX and DS3D to 0 in the alpha centauri.ini file. jkm firaxis games
temeraire	posted 03-14-99 08:04 AM ET What is EAX and ds3d anyway? I have the same problem with a Yamaha XG192 that works perfectly with everything else. I also two sound bites on top of each other at times.
Dave Milford	posted 03-14-99 06:08 PM ET DS3D is Direct Sound 3D I believe. EAX is Environmental Audio (I think) BTW, if your sound still doesnt work, try switching the IRQ on your sound card. Mine wasnt working in AC, but was everywhere else. I switched from IRQ 5 to IRQ 7 and sound worked again. It told me that the printer was using IRQ 7, but when I rebooted the printer went to IRQ 5. Dave
Scavenger	posted 03-15-99 02:10 AM ET An interesting sound update! After fiddling around with this for more than a day, I finally came across some advice to rename my RMM.PDR file to RMM.OLD and reboot. (This file can be found in the WINDOWS\SYSTEM\IOSUBSYS directory) . Success!!!!! I now have all of my sound back! (On the original card too) I'm not recommending everyone do this because I personally have no idea how or why this affected my system (or how it may affect yours) except to say that everything is back to normal on my system, Try this at your own risk, if at all. For the patch users, I don't think I recommend this at all except as a last resort. Jeff: Any opinions on if this was game or hardware related? I tried the RMM idea because I was also getting a Windows IOS error---which started after the sound incident.
Manu	posted 03-15-99 08:32 AM ET I have some Music problems too. To be more precise I had absolutely no music either with version 1.0 nor with version 2.0 ( german ). FX's are running fine. I have an old AWE 32 Soundblaster card ( ISA-Slot ) and the music of all other games I have works fine. The music of the SMAC demo I downloaded a couple of months ago did work, but the full version did not. I have set the eax and 3dsd switches in the .ini file to 0 but this didn't help. Please do fix this problem with the next patch ( 3.0 ).
mazzoldi	posted 03-15-99 03:02 PM ET Same problem here, with interesting variations. I'm using the UK version under Win95 and I've installed patch 2.0. At this point the sound went. Removed patch, sound came back. Reinstalled patch, sound gone. Then I changed the .ini file text, and the sound was still gone. I also reinstalled DirectX from the SMAC CD. Then I changed the IRQ for the sound card (SoundBlaster AWE), and things got funny. Now sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. I haven't been able to work out a regularity of any kind. Most times it doesn't work, but sometimes it does (ah, yes: the sound in the movies always works). Now I'm going to try the last suggestion posted (renaming RMM.PDR --> RMM.OLD), let's see what happens. Very puzzled...
Jeffrey Morris FIRAXIS	posted 03-15-99 03:04 PM ET For the no music people: Did you leave the sound on the CD? Try copying the \fx folder from the CD into the game's folder on the HD. jkm firaxis games
Manu	posted 03-16-99 02:48 AM ET Message for Firaxis. The FX Folder is on the HD. To make sure the installation program hasn't made any mystake I copied the complete Fx folder to the HD, but I still have no music.
Alexis	posted 03-16-99 05:13 AM ET Same problem as Manu - in fact it only dawned on me that the game had music when I read the troubleshooting forum AMD K6-400, SB PCI-64, STB 128ZX AGP graphics, 64MB RAM, US Win98, German SMAC with patch (if this helps )