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Posted: **Wed Jun 27, 2001 5:04 pm**

Curious how it works, before I download such a large file.

Posted: **Wed Jun 27, 2001 7:48 pm**

Which sound file do you mean, Tom? Some Snd files are essential to running the game.

Wild Bill

Posted: **Wed Jun 27, 2001 7:51 pm**

Originally posted by Tom:
Curious how it works, before I download such a large file.

Tom the new sounds are awesome. I love the sound of a good battle. The quality of the new sound files has me seriously considering putting my PC on a surround sound system.

hope that helps,
sven

Posted: **Wed Jun 27, 2001 8:49 pm**

The new sounds are every sound in the game remastered to be full 16 bit stereo. We are also working on doing one that are also in surround sound but I am have some problem with that. The new Mega Campaign do out in July will have the new sounds included in them.

Posted: **Thu Jun 28, 2001 12:33 am**

Hi All

Just a word of warning for those with limited HD space. The stereo sounds when installed increase the size of the snd folder from about 250 MBs to nearly 600 MBs. They are worth disk space (if you have it)

Posted: **Thu Jun 28, 2001 12:47 am**

Where can I find the new sounds?

Posted: **Thu Jun 28, 2001 12:51 am**

Originally posted by Mark Ezra:
Where can I find the new sounds?

ftp://ftp.matrixgames.com/pub/SteelPant ... Update.zip

Posted: **Thu Jun 28, 2001 12:56 am**

Thanks, Sven...I'll troop over tonight and DL the sucker!

Posted: **Thu Jun 28, 2001 1:48 am**

The 600 megs is a little off. That is including the video files also. Its a little over 200 zipped. Wavs do not zip up to much so its a little bigger then that.

Posted: **Thu Jun 28, 2001 1:55 am**

I've got 587 wav clips in my /snd directory equalling 601mb, then the /snd/stream directory has another 125mb of video files. This is all after downloading and replacing the old wav files with the new 16bit stereo ones.

Posted: **Thu Jun 28, 2001 1:58 am**

I stand corrected... Man I didn't know they grew to that size. WOW! Well admit it they do sound really cool.

Posted: **Thu Jun 28, 2001 9:02 am**

Is there any way to get them without the installer program?

I use SPWaW on Linux, and for some reason, it does not like this extra-sounds installation program.

The install program and the patches work great with Linux+WINE. So I do not understand why this new "patch" just plain refuses to work.

Any idea? Anyone that has the files on a ftp server + instructions on how to replace the files?

Posted: **Thu Jun 28, 2001 4:50 pm**

The new snd folder, after you install it, is embedded in the existing snd folder. What I did was rename the "old" snd folder to snd(old), and then cut the "new" folder and pasted it to the main SPWaW directory.Also, you must cut the stream folder from the "old" snd and paste it into the "new" snd. It's a little cumbersome, but I'm guessing that the self-installer did this on purpose, in order for folks who prefer the "old" sounds to have a choice of sound schemes. I love the newer intro music, but I've noticed that there's a bit of background noise in some of the wav music files that's a bit annoying. The new combat sounds, however, are excellent.

Posted: **Thu Jun 28, 2001 8:26 pm**

If someone doesn't help me with this, I'm just going to have to have a conniption fit. It seems to have got lost in the So What Do You Think thread. Here's what I said:

Someone see if you can help me here. Everyone keeps talking about 'new sounds'. When I first saw this download I was under the impression that they were not 'new' but were for people who didn't have proper sound cards or what not to make the sound effects sound good. Mine sounded real good, but I decided to move my old sound files and try these. Gave it a small whirl and nothing sounded different, though I didn't go through all the units, just basically listened to vehicle movement and main gun fire.
After reading up more through the forums, it seems these really are 'new' sounds. Since my previous download of these files didn't achieve anything I put back the old ones and deleted the new, but after hearing everyone talk like this it makes me wonder if I just haven't caught any of the different sounds, because all I've tried are exactly alike, so I reinstated the new files. Now I'm stuck. Since now I know the new ones are so much larger, I want to go back to the old ones if this really isn't 'new'

Thanks.

Posted: **Thu Jun 28, 2001 9:04 pm**

Charles_22, it's a matter of taste, I suppose. I can't say for sure how many actual "new" sounds there are, BUT the big difference is that they are all in stereo now. If you set your sound card options for "wide" listening, it sounds like you're in a movie theater. I love 'em. Some may prefer the old "mono" sounds, though.

Posted: **Thu Jun 28, 2001 9:21 pm**

I think mine was on wide in the first place, and still is, but I'll have to check when I get home. I don't know actually if there is such a thing as a wide for me, as I recall moving the icon of speakers around and centering it. Oh well, I'll see.

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Has anyone tried the new Sound file?

Has anyone tried the new Sound file?