If you have updated to 1.20 and STILL HAVE SOUND ISSUES

[Wilhammer]

I don't get wierd noises - I just get CTDs clicking buttons, such as exit, ot a ship selection.

No Codec Packs, and I have done the recommends above; directx9c, etc.

NOSOUNDS gets me back up

[donkuchi19]

I set accel to none. I played all the way until Dec. 14th with the sounds on. I do get funny sounds. I don't have combat anim on. I just had my first ctd. I wasn't looking at the screen when it happened unfortunately. The CTD's are still there though.

Updated to 1.21 now.

[robuk23]

Hope I can shed some light on this sound problem. I upgraded to v1.20 using all the interim updates. I have a soundblaster live card under XP, upgraded to the latest sound drivers and still get choppy sounds and CTD's. Now I have the original UV game, so I renamed the WITP SOUND dir and copied accross the UV SOUND dir. Guess what - sound worked with no problems!! So i can play WITP using the old UC sounds, have been playing for hours with no CTD's or sound issues.

One point is the UV sounds are larger in size than the WITP sounds, and this suggests that the newer sounds are compressed or a different format. I can play WITP sounds with no issues under media player, so i'm not convinced it's a codec issue.

Anyway, if you have the original UV, you can play with sound.
Thanks

[Jaws_slith]

ORIGINAL: robuk23

Hope I can shed some light on this sound problem. I upgraded to v1.20 using all the interim updates. I have a soundblaster live card under XP, upgraded to the latest sound drivers and still get choppy sounds and CTD's. Now I have the original UV game, so I renamed the WITP SOUND dir and copied accross the UV SOUND dir. Guess what - sound worked with no problems!! So i can play WITP using the old UC sounds, have been playing for hours with no CTD's or sound issues.

One point is the UV sounds are larger in size than the WITP sounds, and this suggests that the newer sounds are compressed or a different format. I can play WITP sounds with no issues under media player, so i'm not convinced it's a codec issue.

Anyway, if you have the original UV, you can play with sound.
Thanks

[:)]Ok I will give it a try

[Jaws_slith]

ORIGINAL: Jaws43

ORIGINAL: robuk23

Hope I can shed some light on this sound problem. I upgraded to v1.20 using all the interim updates. I have a soundblaster live card under XP, upgraded to the latest sound drivers and still get choppy sounds and CTD's. Now I have the original UV game, so I renamed the WITP SOUND dir and copied accross the UV SOUND dir. Guess what - sound worked with no problems!! So i can play WITP using the old UC sounds, have been playing for hours with no CTD's or sound issues.

One point is the UV sounds are larger in size than the WITP sounds, and this suggests that the newer sounds are compressed or a different format. I can play WITP sounds with no issues under media player, so i'm not convinced it's a codec issue.

Anyway, if you have the original UV, you can play with sound.
Thanks

[:)]Ok I will give it a try

The UV sounds are wav format and the WITP files are sfx... So this sound strange. But I did as you and...... now CTD[:(]

[robuk23]

ORIGINAL: Jaws43

The UV sounds are wav format and the WITP files are sfx... So this sound strange. But I did as you and...... now CTD[:(]

you may have done this [:)] - don't forget to rename the UV sounds from .wav to .sfx

Then again it may only work on my PC!!

[Damien Thorn]

ORIGINAL: robuk23

ORIGINAL: Jaws43

The UV sounds are wav format and the WITP files are sfx... So this sound strange. But I did as you and...... now CTD[:(]

you may have done this [:)] - don't forget to rename the UV sounds from .wav to .sfx

Then again it may only work on my PC!!

I followed the suggestion also and am listening to UV sounds now in WitP. Thanks a lot. Now the next question: are the WitP sounds improved from UV? i.e. am I still missing some of my gaming experience?

[Jaws_slith]

[&:][:o] No but is there a quich way to rename the all in once?

[CoffeeMug]

ORIGINAL: Jaws43

[&:][:o] No but is there a quich way to rename the all in once?

type in command line:
ren *.wav *.sfx

Presto!

[Jaws_slith]

ORIGINAL: CoffeeMug

ORIGINAL: Jaws43

[&:][:o] No but is there a quich way to rename the all in once?

type in command line:
ren *.wav *.sfx

Presto!

[:)]Thanks[:)]

[Jaws_slith]

[&o][&o][&o]

Yes I've got sound and no CTD[:)]

[CoffeeMug]

ORIGINAL: Jaws43

[&o][&o][&o]

Yes I've got sound and no CTD[:)]

Nice! [8D]

But where do I get those "legacy" sound files ....

Erik?

Cheers,

CM

[Jaws_slith]

ORIGINAL: CoffeeMug

ORIGINAL: Jaws43

[&o][&o][&o]

Yes I've got sound and no CTD[:)]

Nice! [8D]

But where do I get those "legacy" sound files ....

Erik?

Cheers,

CM

You must have UV....

[CoffeeMug]

ORIGINAL: Jaws43

You must have UV....

I don't. Just send an email to Erik, if it's possible to get those.

Cheers,

CM

[Jaws_slith]

ORIGINAL: CoffeeMug

ORIGINAL: Jaws43

You must have UV....

I don't. Just send an email to Erik, if it's possible to get those.

Cheers,

CM

It's 318 MB....otherwise I've would email mine to you[:(]

[CoffeeMug]

ORIGINAL: Jaws43

It's 318 MB....otherwise I've would email mine to you[:(]

Yeah, thanks, no thanks! [:D]

318 MB is a little bit mucho for me, my mailbox has a capacity of 250 MB only. [8D]

Well, then I will wait for another solution ...

[Jaws_slith]

ORIGINAL: CoffeeMug

ORIGINAL: Jaws43

It's 318 MB....otherwise I've would email mine to you[:(]

Yeah, thanks, no thanks! [:D]

318 MB is a little bit mucho for me, my mailbox has a capacity of 250 MB only. [8D]

Well, then I will wait for another solution ...

With RAR it is 187 MB.. Maybe Erik can put these files as an update on the WITP support site.

[Damien Thorn]

Since the WitP sound files are just mp3 files with a different extention, maybe it would be possible to use a utility to convert them to wav. It might be worth a try.

[robuk23]

ORIGINAL: Damien Thorn

Since the WitP sound files are just mp3 files with a different extention, maybe it would be possible to use a utility to convert them to wav. It might be worth a try.

Great! Glad it's working for some of you guys as well.

Good idea about the mp3 2 wav, i'll try it later on

[TNKRGD]

Followed your instructions for copying the UV sounds files into WITP and renaming them to sfx files. Has been working great since then, with no CTDs or distortion of the sound. Thank you a lot. Love the Game