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[Grunker]

Hi there. I'm currently making a run of Baldur's Gate Trilogy, no mega-mods. My weidu.log can be found at the bottom of the thread. My problem is that while all normal sounds play, characters make no sound. Also, chapter-screens, the prologue-screen for example, has no sounds. Movies have full sound, there are full environmentsounds, and I *think* there's music (not entirely sure).

I also have a small side-problem: On menu-screens and generally when on screens that are not the game-screen, squares of varying size outline my screen. They aren't too annoying, so this is problem I can live with. The sound-problem is far more disturbing.

Could anyone help me with this problem? My OS is Windows Vista 64bit.

NOTE: I don't know if it's relevant, but I have a similar problem with the game Dragonshard. Full sound and music, but characters make no sound when clicked on or in cutscenes. I don't care much about Dragonshard, but I'm really sad about this fact concerning Baldur's Gate

Weidu.log:

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Edited by Grunker, 11 November 2008 - 12:58 PM.

[Epantiras]

I had a similar problem with sounds and solved it in this way (copy and pasted from the Bioware forum):

Open up dxdiag.exe (Start -> Run -> dxdiag.exe). When everything is loaded and ready, switch to the sound tab. Under the DirectX Features, there is a slider called Hardware Sound Acceleration Level. Normaly it should be at Full Acceleration, but to fix the problem, slide it over one and test the opening SoA scene with Jon.

Edited by Epantiras, 13 November 2008 - 02:33 AM.

[Grunker]

I remember this dxdiag option solving a problem of mine before. Trouble is, there is no "DirectX features" box in my sound tab (I acutally have three of those, "Sound 1", "Sound 2" and "Sound 3").

I'm running Vista Home Premium, with DirectX 10.

Anybody knows what's going on? The people at bioware seem unable to help

EDIT: Turns out Vista doesn't have a Hardware Sound Acceleration slider, since it supposedly turns it off automatically. So I'm really at a loss in terms of what I can do to solve this...

Edited by Grunker, 14 November 2008 - 04:02 PM.

[Grunker]

Breakthrough! Or a breakthrough of sorts, at least...

First, I found that I had this problem not only in Baldur's Gate and Dragonshard, but a similar one in Fallout 3 (I couldn't hear character voices in dialogue).

I thought, okay, let's see where exactly this goes wrong, so I uninstalled the entire installation, determined to walk through the installation bit by bit, to see when the sound would go faulty. With vanilla BG, no TotSC, there was no sound. I pressed "done" anyway, when I had built my trial and error character. On the prologue-screen, I thought I heard something.

Right I was. The voice-volume wasn't gone, it was just turned down very low. Now's the tricky part: Where? The voice-settings are fine in the config, in the game menu, and in Vistas Volume Settings. I'm using a 5.1 system, so I thought: "maybe voices only come from the central speaker, and that's turned down?" It was turned half-way down, but turning it up full didn't help very much.

What the #"&%"&% is the problem? Which system controls can turn down the voice-volume or properties hereof in only some games? Is it my soundcard? Or what? This is driving me crazy, as I now realize it doesn't only affect old games, but also new games like Fallout 3

[Azazello]

Does Vista have Control Panel ==> Sound and Audio Devices? Is there an 'Advanced' button? Can you choose different speaker configs?

[Jarno Mikkola]

Does Vista have Control Panel ==> Sound and Audio Devices? Is there an 'Advanced' button? Can you choose different speaker configs?

It's in my Vista in; Control Panel -> Hardware and Sound -> Realtek HD Audio Manager ... so that might help to find the buggereven if Grunker doesn't even have the Realtek-

[Grunker]

Well, the issue is solved... Kindda. By configuring my speakers to play in stereo, the sound got working. I can understand why Baldur's Gate didn't like my 5.1 system, but it's weird that Dragonshard and Fallout3 don't... At least Fallout 3. Ah well. Stereo is better than nothing, that's for sure.