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Title: Sound Effects (weapons, comms) cut out after mission start
Post by: Seanmill2000 on May 01, 2014, 06:54:07 pm

Recently, when I play a mission the audio for weapon effects (The Sublach Cannon Firing Sound) cuts out after firing the cannons for a few seconds. When this happen any comm chatter in the mission also cuts out. If I wait a big and hit the trigger again I can hear the weapons sound ONCE, but then I keep firing and I don't hear the effect anymore. I have deleted my entire FSO directory and reinstalled, I have also tried reinstalling open AL. In addition I have tried selecting both the Creative and the generic driver from the WX launcher menu. This is in Windows 8.1 Log attached. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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Title: Re: Sound Effects (weapons, comms) cut out after mission start
Post by: niffiwan on May 01, 2014, 07:08:38 pm

You could try installing and using OpenALSoft (http://kcat.strangesoft.net/openal.html#download) instead of Creatives OpenAL. I'm just not sure if you need both for it to work correctly with a Creative sound card or not.

Title: Re: Sound Effects (weapons, comms) cut out after mission start
Post by: Seanmill2000 on May 01, 2014, 07:53:07 pm

That did it! Thanks! No clue why it happened all of a sudden but that fix worked. Thanks for the really quick response. I really appreciate it.

Title: Re: Sound Effects (weapons, comms) cut out after mission start
Post by: niffiwan on May 01, 2014, 08:01:40 pm

no problems, and I'm glad it fixed the issue for you :)