Lost Audio Effects

**DarthDisco** · November 27, 2007, 12:28 PM

Recently I made the switch to Windows Vista Ultimate 64 and decided to install Medieval 2 Total War. At first everything went smoothly, the game loaded and played with no problems, as did the Kingdoms Expansion, and Grandviz's Ultimate AI modification.

However yesterday I ran into a problem after installing the following "Kingdom's Grand Campaign Mod". I inadvertently installed the mod into my Medieval 2 directory instead of into its own sub-folder. As a result, certain files were overridden and I lost nearly all in game sound effects and music; including all "click" effects, "selection" effects, "main menu" music, and so on.

After un-installing the game, deleting the entire SEGA directory and re-installing the game I have had no luck in re-acquiring the missing audio. I can only assume that Medieval 2 installs additional components outside of its directory or that it the modification mentioned above somehow compromised certain audio settings directly.

Would anyone be able to tell me where the Audio/Video settings file for Medieval 2 is stored by default? And whether or not Medieval 2 does in fact install files to other directories like WINDOWS, or system32?

Thanks,

DD

**Chim** · November 28, 2007, 02:01 AM

This is a pretty odd problem indeed,
maybe the mod muted your game, if that is the case look into the .cfg file in question, under the Audio tab.

**Donkey Khan** · August 27, 2008, 08:30 PM

I've been having the same problem as DarthDisco, albeit I have windows vista 32 bit and I have the 0.5b for retrofit. I Also do not know what an audio tab is, where to find one, or how I can upgrade to the newest version.

**irishron** · August 27, 2008, 09:08 PM

In some Medieval2 mods, the sound files had to be copied into the mod folder. Could be the case here as the time/date/version numbers seem to matter if they are the right ones.

**Donkey Khan** · August 28, 2008, 02:46 PM

I would assume this is the case, but I still need to know what an audio tab is and where to find it.

And if anyone could e-mail me the sound folders or give me a link to upgrade to 3.0 it would be greatly appreciated.

**irishron** · August 28, 2008, 04:29 PM

Look in your data/sounds folder. Just copy them to your mod/data/sounds folder.

**Donkey Khan** · August 29, 2008, 02:25 PM

I patched from 0.5 to 3.0. There were no "select" sound effects for when you select armies,agents, factions,open scrolls, etc. I did the same and copied the sound folder, except whenever I started the game crashed and gives a generic unspecified error message. So i uninstalled. However, even more unfortunate is that the un-modded games don't work either. Could someone tell me what to do next?

**Hellboy** · June 19, 2009, 04:28 PM

THE SAME THING HAPPEND TO ME WITH 4.1 I didn't know why this would happen and I think it is because of that and i still haven't got it to fix.

**Gigantus** · June 19, 2009, 08:20 PM

Necrothreading?
And what is 4.1?

Sounds in mods need the two events files from data\sounds of the original game. Copy them into your mod folder into the same destination.