No sound in DX2: invisible war and cinematic strange problem..

Neuromante on 17/9/2007 at 21:59

I have the feeling that I've already asked for this in the past, but I just got a new copy of DX2 and installed it.
So, the problem it's this: When I started the game I have no sound in the main menu, nor ingame. The initial cinematics DO have sound.
In addittion, the first ingame cinematic (your character talking with someone who says him/her something) goes at "lightspeed". In a second, the camera focus on your character, the next, the other (in holo-conference), and so on over 3 times, with no time for the characters to speak. Nice.

I have a Dell Inspiron 9400, ATI x1400, and a SigmaTel Audio card on-board. The game it's patched to the 1.2 version, I've tried with "non-too-legal" version, with "no-official" patches (AKA cracks) and with almost everything I've found on the net and nothing.
Any idea? It's my computer not compatible wit DX2?

Jeshibu on 17/9/2007 at 23:15

Sounds like all of the sound files are just plain missing, and the conversations are skipping because they've no sound to play. Either that or the references to the sound files are screwed up.
Have you tried doing a reinstall with a full install?

Neuromante on 18/9/2007 at 08:35

Not at all, as long as DX2 don't have many install options (and not a "complete install" option).Anyway, I've tried to install from different DVD's and images of the DVD's and the same problem persist.
I don't know what can it be... yes, it could be a "I don't find the audio files" problem, but I've searched through the directories and well.. there they are.. the weight of the installation folder it's over 2.91gb..
It could be a special codec to heard the sound, maybe? Or even a older version of a currently installed codec..

Jeshibu on 18/9/2007 at 09:22

Could be. I wouldn't know where to start looking in that case.
A search only brings up (http://www.ttlg.com/forums/showthread.php?t=112370) this guy with the same problem, that apparently went unfixed.

I'd suggest fucking around a bit with the sound settings, but IW only has volume settings. :erg:
Have you tried lowering your audio hardware acceleration level yet?
It's in Control Panel, Advanced (under speaker settings), Performance.

Neuromante on 18/9/2007 at 10:42

Well, finally I managed to solve it!

looks like it was a problem with the audio drivers; I found others somewhere (wich it's quite hard as Dell don't use to update their laptop drivers) and installed'em. Then, all the sound problems were gone!

Thanks anyway for the support!

Jima13 on 18/9/2007 at 20:50

congrats on finding the fix and posting it:thumb: