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Title: Getting sound effects to work...
Post by: JacksSmirkingRevenge on January 09, 2012, 08:48:33 am
I have been messing around trying to figure out how to get the sound effects to work. Its the minor sound effects that I'm not hearing for example weapons firing, wind blowing, clicking, ect.


How do I fix this? Or is this a bug at the moment?
Title: Re: Getting sound effects to work...
Post by: kiki123 on January 09, 2012, 11:56:31 am
Same problem here, if anybody finds out please report.
Title: Re: Getting sound effects to work...
Post by: bobek289 on January 09, 2012, 12:59:24 pm
i dont hear music... ???
Title: Re: Getting sound effects to work...
Post by: JacksSmirkingRevenge on January 11, 2012, 11:39:12 am
Has anyone figured out how to get the sound effects to work? I'm still in the dark.
Title: Re: Getting sound effects to work...
Post by: bobek289 on January 11, 2012, 12:08:28 pm
Locate music files when install game. Didn`t find other method. Thats the way i have soud effects. But didnt figure it out how to enable music. I think noone have music at the moment  :-\
Title: Re: Getting sound effects to work...
Post by: Surf on January 11, 2012, 02:26:38 pm
I have been messing around trying to figure out how to get the sound effects to work. Its the minor sound effects that I'm not hearing for example weapons firing, wind blowing, clicking, ect.


How do I fix this? Or is this a bug at the moment?

It's a bug. So far, most of the people have atleast working soundeffects, but you seem to have the same problem as me where there are not even soundeffects played. Could you maybe post your hardware configuration, or do you have some external soundcard or something like that? I'm using such a device and I think it *may* have something to do with it. Just a shot in the blue though. :/
Title: Re: Getting sound effects to work...
Post by: JacksSmirkingRevenge on January 11, 2012, 08:29:09 pm
Could you maybe post your hardware configuration, or do you have some external soundcard or something like that?

When you say hardware config, do you mean like a DirectX Diagnostics?
Title: Re: Getting sound effects to work...
Post by: Surf on January 11, 2012, 08:32:18 pm
I was a bit ambigious, I rather meant your soundcard and (eventual) external sound devices or such. I have a TASCAM US-144 ( a recording device )and sometimes it causes games to act weird in terms of sound and music. That's why I thought you might have the same configuration. ;)
Title: Re: Getting sound effects to work...
Post by: JacksSmirkingRevenge on January 11, 2012, 09:06:42 pm
I was a bit ambigious, I rather meant your soundcard and (eventual) external sound devices or such.

I actually don't know what type of sound card I have. This might show it. I do get sound to play on the menu screen where the updates shown but other than that nothing. When I first logged on I had old 50's music playing in the background of NCR but that only happened that one time.

Sound info is in spoiler.

Title: Re: Getting sound effects to work...
Post by: Surf on January 15, 2012, 07:05:16 pm
One question to the people who have the No Soundeffects/Music problem - what platform are you using, Win XP (what version of the service pack), Vista, Win7 etc? Would be good to know for troubleshooting...
Title: Re: Getting sound effects to work...
Post by: Dustin81 on January 15, 2012, 10:33:52 pm
Well before wipe I had music working but its not now (well some of the time). Music plays when I start up the client and while logging in, but in towns, silence. I'm using WinXP. I'm wondering if the client is looking for the sound/music files in somewhere they are not.
Title: Re: Getting sound effects to work...
Post by: bobek289 on January 15, 2012, 11:13:02 pm
Vista SP1 - no music, have sound
Title: Re: Getting sound effects to work...
Post by: Nucly on January 16, 2012, 12:37:47 am
Windows 7 64bit - no music, sound effects working
Title: Re: Getting sound effects to work...
Post by: zato1 on January 16, 2012, 02:03:25 am
vista sp2 - sound, no music
Title: Re: Getting sound effects to work...
Post by: Gruik on January 18, 2012, 11:50:51 pm
vista sp2 - sound, no music

Same here.

But 1 good thing : the music during long dialog (for Ranger perk) with the punk girl at Gas Staton worked, was very cool to hear it ! Does the game plays this one from the same place (FOnline/data/sound/music), or... where it is ? Maybe this could be an hint...
Title: Re: Getting sound effects to work...
Post by: zato1 on January 18, 2012, 11:52:27 pm
that was a GM playing the sound for you :)
Title: Re: Getting sound effects to work...
Post by: Gruik on January 19, 2012, 03:04:08 am
I talked to her 4 times in like an hour (3fails 1win), always with music, and I doubt that someone manually started music for me evertime ^^
But I don't know more about how it works, I'm not sayin' "YOU LIAR DAT IZ IMpOSSIBLE!!ยงยง" ^^"
Title: Re: Getting sound effects to work...
Post by: JacksSmirkingRevenge on January 19, 2012, 11:24:30 pm
I'm using, Windows XP Home Edition (5.1, Build 2600) Service Pack 3.

When I do hear music it's at the loading screen where I type my character name/password and when the GM's play random tracks other than that it's totally silent.
Title: Re: Getting sound effects to work...
Post by: Surf on January 19, 2012, 11:30:36 pm
I'm using, Windows XP Home Edition (5.1, Build 2600) Service Pack 3.

When I do hear music it's at the loading screen where I type my character name/password and when the GM's play random tracks other than that it's totally silent.

You hear music when it's played by a GM but hear no soundeffects? That's new then. :/ I am using Service Pack 3 too.

As for the music you can hear when taking to Tamira to obtain the Ranger perk - it's an .ogg file that is sitting in the client files directly - those seem to work for everyone for some strange reason. It's the .acm files which aren't loaded properly.

Title: Re: Getting sound effects to work...
Post by: zato1 on January 20, 2012, 05:28:30 am
is the game music a priority for the devs to fix?

i dont know about the rest of you guys, but it is kind of a big downer to be forced to play with no music, or with youtube looping the fallout music ad nauseum in the background.

anyway for those of you who want the FO1+2 playlist front-to-back, heres the youtube link i use, maybe this will help enhance your gameplay a little like it did for me:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtBgcnV8Ztw&feature=autoplay&list=PL0360E24BD0231966&lf=results_main&playnext=24
Title: Re: Getting sound effects to work...
Post by: JacksSmirkingRevenge on January 20, 2012, 05:51:27 am
You hear music when it's played by a GM but hear no soundeffects? That's new then. :/ I am using Service Pack 3 too.

As for the music you can hear when taking to Tamira to obtain the Ranger perk - it's an .ogg file that is sitting in the client files directly - those seem to work for everyone for some strange reason. It's the .acm files which aren't loaded properly.

I also found out something new today. Another player drank some Nuka Cola and I heard the sound effect of the drink gulping. So that particular sound effect works for some reason.
Title: Re: Getting sound effects to work...
Post by: JacksSmirkingRevenge on January 21, 2012, 03:04:31 am
I just installed the client to a computer that had just been rebooted so it had nothing on it. I followed every step as I did to install it on the comp without sound effects. The fresher computer has working sound effects.

I uninstalled everything on this even the original game reinstalled everything including FOnline same steps as before. Still no sound lol.

I'm going to look through both comps to see if there is any difference in where files are located and if anything has been added or is missing.
Title: Re: Getting sound effects to work...
Post by: JacksSmirkingRevenge on January 22, 2012, 07:41:58 am
I am playing FOnline on FOnlineGL and I get music now. Still no sound effects.
Title: Re: Getting sound effects to work...
Post by: EnclaveSniper on January 22, 2012, 07:55:43 am
Yeah, I'm running windows 7 64(b) and I have sound effects but no music, even tried re-installing, and moving the music from the original Fallout 2 directory, into the FOnline sound\music\ directory, but still nothing.
Title: Re: Getting sound effects to work...
Post by: JacksSmirkingRevenge on January 31, 2012, 06:56:22 am
Just installed the client to my friends computer and he uses Vista. His files are everywhere and it's a real pain. Some how I got the game to work. He has music and sound effects. FFFfffffffff.


Still don't know why I don't have sound effects, it's killing me!!!!
Title: Re: Getting sound effects to work...
Post by: Mister Dank on May 29, 2012, 11:56:42 am
Anyone ever find a solution to this problem? Please let me know.
Title: Re: Getting sound effects to work...
Post by: jarzeb1 on March 21, 2013, 03:37:20 pm
Anyone ever find a solution to this problem? Please let me know.

+1 please pm me if u know how to fix it
Title: Re: Getting sound effects to work...
Post by: Join the Unity on April 10, 2013, 10:49:47 am
Im running FOnline with Win xp SP 3 and only have music on the world map and towns, but no sound effects for shooting and reload,etc.If someone knows a solution please PM.