cannot get the sound to work at all

[Ateh]

I followed to the letter the instructions on the homepage to install the sound files and it just wont work.

 

Any ideas? Anybody else have the same problem? Just no sound at all? NVIDEA GEFORCE 6150 card on an AMD athlon 64x2 dual core processor 4200+

 

my sound device is soundmax integrated digital HD audio

[Roja]

Just go through the check list..

 

1. Correct directory? Example for windows: the directory should look like: C:\Program Files\Eternal Lands\sound\file.ogg

It should NOT look like this: C:\Program Files\Eternal Lands\sound\sound\file.ogg

 

2. Enabled in the game? Options>Audio>Enable Sound Effects. Make sure Sound Gain is up high.

 

3. You installed the FULL pack and not just the update?

 

4. You restarted the game?

 

5. Other audio works on your computer?

[Ateh]

ok right on roja thanks for the reply its working now really great to hear some sound from EL !

 

so yeh I found if I tried to unzip the file straight to eternal lands in C drive, it created the sound/sound issue with the file name

 

way around it was to unzip the file onto my desktop and just copy and paste the sound file into EL folder

 

hope this makes sense to any other nooblets trying to install the sound

 

thanks again

Edited January 19, 2011 by Ateh

[Roja]

Or when you unzip choose "extract here" instead of extracting into a folder the zip program makes.

[groomsh]

Maybe a simple nullsoft installer that will read registry key to detect installation directory and unpacks it there would be nice to have to avoid problems like this.

[Roja]

If I knew how to do something like that maybe. For now, people will have to resort to reading

[Ateh]

im pretty sure when I first extracted the file right into the EL directory I copied and pasted the extraction destination from the main website how to steps.

 

as in C:\Program Files\Eternal Lands\sound

 

but after extraction it created the sound\sound folder

[Roja]

Yeah it will do that if you extract it by having it also make a folder. That's why it's also stated right under that line to not make the directory /sound/sound.