No Sound - Recent Development

**ShadowDBOB** · February 13, 2010, 09:42 AM

Hi guys, i apologise if this has been mentioned before but i could not find anything with a search.

Basically, my Empire has been running fine for months. The suddenly my sound has just stopped working completely. I dont get any sound on the intro video, nor the menus or the game itself. I have checked all the sound settings (just incase, although this wouldnt explain the intro having no sound). I have deleted the game on steam, and re-downloaded/installed it. But its still happening, i just cant figure it out.

If anbody has any ideas i would be most appreciative. At the moment my only consolation is Napoloen coming out. As playing the game just isnt right with no sound.

Thanks in advance for any help.

**lordskater121** · February 13, 2010, 09:43 AM

did you convert from vista to windows 7?

**irishron** · February 13, 2010, 09:54 AM

Do you have sound in any other games?

**ShadowDBOB** · February 13, 2010, 10:10 AM

I am using windows 7, but i have been since installing last November time and it has worked fine since then. Only in the past week or so i havent had any sound.

Also yes i have sound in other games, everything else is running perfectly. Sound on all my games, movies, apps etc. It only seems to be Empire with the problem, thats what i cant figure out.

**irishron** · February 13, 2010, 11:02 AM

In the options, is sound/audio on? Is there a line in one of scripts to enable/disable sound?

**ShadowDBOB** · February 13, 2010, 11:17 AM

The ingame options are all unchecked for mute, i.e they should all be on and are on max volume. As i said in my original post this was the 1st thing i checked. What i cant understand, is that even if this was the case surely the intro video would still have sound, as that is not controlled by the ingame settings.

As for scripts, can you explain what you mean? I have not manually edited any config files in the Empire directory, this is a fresh install as of last night.

Its almost as if the entire sound engine that Empire uses, is just not working, again though with no other problems with other games, i'm just totally stumped.

**irishron** · February 13, 2010, 12:11 PM

I haven't looked since the game was released but how many sound options are there for Miles, Sound Blaster, Generic? Medieval2 has four or five and sometimes when they were updating the game we'd end playing with them to find which one works, again.

**ShadowDBOB** · February 13, 2010, 02:05 PM

Managed to get it working, i have no idea why. But i just did a complete cleaning of my system, software and physically. Now it works, dont ask me how. Somethings PC related are just complete and utter randomness.

Anyway, thankyou for you help. Its great to know there are people around willing to help out. Now to get some last life out of Empire before Napoleon