I've lost sound again!

cua193 · Post by **cua193** » Sat Feb 14, 2004 2:56 pm

My MSTS is suspiciously mute again!

Went into it the other day - silence, not even the opening video.

I haven't done anything to alter any settings or even done anything radical to the computer.

I lost sound once before when I put in a different graphics card but this time I haven't changed any settings.

The computer has regular attention from Mr Norton's gadgets.

If it provides a lead - I can't play DVDs.

Any ideas?

regards
Richard Osborne

baldwin · Post by **baldwin** » Sat Feb 14, 2004 7:44 pm

Does your computer make any sounds at all? What operating system are you using?

Mervyn

cua193 · Post by **cua193** » Sat Feb 14, 2004 8:22 pm

Mervyn,

Everything else works. Sounds on MSTS worked last week.

I'm using win98se, the DVD worked when first reloaded the other week- watched 'Casablanca' - but now tells me it can't find a 32bit driver.

Sound files buried within MSTS welcome me at start-up, so they're not corrupted.

One thought - I loaded Winamp the other day; I'll offload it & see if it's that. Last time, though, only MSTS sounds failed to work.

Richard

crasher · Post by **crasher** » Sat Feb 14, 2004 10:58 pm

If your Sound card is a Creative SB live 5.1 digital, then try this.
Reduce the hardware sound acceleration level using the DirectX Diagnostic tool. Open the run program & cut & paste :
C:|WINDOWS\system32\dxdiag.exe

Since installing this card the sound in MSTS been very hit, & miss.

baldwin · Post by **baldwin** » Sat Feb 14, 2004 11:07 pm

DVD may well be the missing 32bit file, MSTS sounds, no. Take a look in the options abd see if the sound slider has been reste, happened to me once a long time ago. So long ago I have only just remembered it happening. My graphics went down the tubes in a similar way as well.

Mervyn

cua193 · Post by **cua193** » Sat Feb 14, 2004 11:53 pm

Mervyn,

Already checked the settings - nothing's moved. I also once had the graphics at low definition without me moving anything.

Crasher,

The graphics card is a GeForce with the latest drivers.

Unloading Winamp didn't make any difference.

regards
Richard

Lad491 · Post by **Lad491** » Sun Feb 15, 2004 7:48 am

my guess is still winamp as being to blame. its probably grabbed all the file associations. Uninstalling it doesnt return things to as they were before. If that is whats happened you will need to reassign the file associations again, to whatever was playing the sounds before.

cua193 · Post by **cua193** » Sun Feb 15, 2004 1:28 pm

Right then, problem solved. I tried playing about with file associations - you're right, they weren't reassigned.

Media Player was still doing strange things - playing .mpegs without sound & such.

I went into the Microsoft site & downloaded the latest version, all 13meg of it. I made sure it assumed all media files.

Everything now works; thanks everyone for the input.

regards
Richard