Okay, I"m at wits end. I no longer get any sounds.
No intro music, no battle sounds, no ambient noises. Nothing, nada, zilch. :pinch: Well, actually I do get a little background static when I launch the game as if its trying to play something.
Background: Previously I was using Realtek for sound and wasn't getting anything from it either when playing SOW. My other games such as AGEOD's ACW however played sounds just fine. I also could communicate via Teamspeak and it worked fine. So after reading some of the posts about a compatibility issue or something between SOW and Realtek I went ahead and bought a new sound board (Creative Labs Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium). When I installed it everything worked! :woohoo: I now had music, battle sounds, everything! :woohoo: It was great. :laugh: ...but after 4-5 days it happened again :blink: ....nothing. NO music, sounds, noises..nothing at all. And it's just with SOW. :blink: I can still play any of my other games, chat on Teamspeak, listen to music files etc and it works fine. I can even go into SOW subfolders and click on the individual sound files themselves and they will play. Its just when I'm launching and in SOW that I'm having problems. Again the static will start once the game launches ...as if something is trying to play.
I'm not a techy so any ideas etc would be appreciated. I've even tried reinstalling the 1.2 patch and that didn't work. Any suggestions anyone??
thx!
Evander Law
Hi Boyd.
I had a very similar experience back about 5 months ago. My sound stopped working, and what you described I was also able play the individual sounds with no problems, I was also able to get sounds to play in other games, but not SOWgb.
For me I soon discovered I picked up (accidentally) a piece of Malware that played havoc with my system. By the time I found it the damage was already done, and I had to install a fresh copy of windows.
(BASIC First Steps)
I would suggest that you do a complete scan of your system with an Anti-Malware product, an Anti-Spyware product, and lastly a Anti-Virus program.
Download the latest sound drivers for your card. Install, reboot system
(If this doesn't correct anything)
1: Deactivate your Scourge of War - Gettysburg Game. (VERY IMPORTANT!!!)
2: Uninstall Scourge of War Gettysburg Game.
3: Delete the NorbsoftDev directory.
4: Uninstall your sound drivers for your sound card.
5: If you have a registry restore point before you installed Scourge of War Gettysburg, then do the registry restore.
6: Reboot
7: In Start menu select (bottom Left) select Accessories, then System Tools, select "Disk Cleanup"
select the drive C: or D: whatever you have your system installed, put a tick in every box, then select ok.
8: Defragment your Harddrive (please do this, no matter even if it is not needed)
9: Install Latest Sound Card drivers.
10: Install Scourge of War Gettysburg
Try out the game in Demo mode just to be sure that it is working.
I am somewhat sure this can help you. I may have missed a step somewhere there, not sure. I do know there are a number of other things I could have you do like getting into the registry, and twiddle about in there, but since you do not know all that much about this, I decided to leave this out.
I sure hope this helps....
