Thom12 10 Posted July 9, 2011 (edited) Hi all I'm having problems with arma 2 sound after reseting my pc drive... Somedays ago I reseted my pc and arma 2 does not play any sound.. Arma2 was instaled to D drive and C drive have been reseted With the pc in hands I started to do the necessary I've create a another regedit for arma, reinstaled my directx(9.0c). Well.. but arma2 still w/o any sound. Any suggestions? reinstaling the game is not an option for me =/ Only arma does not play any sound... Some people said to me that something is left in the regedit part... Since there is two keys for arma2 inside the regedit [D:\Bohemia interactive\arma2] and [D:\Bohemia interactive Studios\arma2] I could only "rebuild" the one that says "Bohemia interactive studios".. Can anyone tell me what to do in the one that does not have the "studio"? I don't know anymore what to do :S Can anyone help me? Thanks for your attention Btw I'm using Windows XP :) Edited July 9, 2011 by Thom12 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Nicholas 5 Posted July 9, 2011 Do you have the proper sound drivers installed? Have you tried it with headphones? Updated to the latest patch? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Thom12 10 Posted July 9, 2011 Yes, sound driver is a proper one, tried with and w/o headphones and it is updated.. Before the C drive got reseted everything was working. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Nicholas 5 Posted July 9, 2011 (edited) You installed ArmA to the D drive and you reformatted the C drive???? Edited July 9, 2011 by Nicholas Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Thom12 10 Posted July 9, 2011 yes, but with that I got the "bad serial number given in setup" problem.. this comes with the missing regedit, the regedit of arma was in C drive.. I did the regedit all over again and now it doesnt want to play sounds Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Nicholas 5 Posted July 9, 2011 So you reformatted C? The registry files for programs to operate properly are usually stored on drive C in the registry. You might have to re-install ArmA to get it to work properly now... And let me guess, you got the game from the Green Man Games "promotion" for free? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Thom12 10 Posted July 9, 2011 Uh no.. I bought it, but I left it in my mothers house.. wich is in another country :S So I can't reinstall it for now Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Nicholas 5 Posted July 9, 2011 Ok, well I read something in their (Green Man Gaming) forums about someone having the exact same issue. But I'm thinking your going to have to re-install. The registry is very important for programs to run correctly. It would be possible, but time consuming to manually add the correct entries back into the registry. It just might have something to do with your sound problem... Do you have your key available? Or is that on the box? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Thom12 10 Posted July 9, 2011 What key? serial? or those ones in regedit? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Nicholas 5 Posted July 9, 2011 The key you used to activate the game...........key/serial are the same thing. Do you have your serial key? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Nicholas 5 Posted July 9, 2011 You get the "bad serial", correct? You've tried manually entering that into the registry? Try re-installing your audio drivers to fix the audio. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Thom12 10 Posted July 9, 2011 About the registry yes, I've entered it manually( the game is running ).. ill try reinstalling the audio driver so :) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Nicholas 5 Posted July 9, 2011 I just looked at my key in the registry and it looks as though you can't "manually" add them in as they are encrypted. And you said you left everything at your mother's house? DVD, manual, case...everything? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Thom12 10 Posted July 9, 2011 I left there the dvds... The serial is encrypted to hexadecimal formart, I have my serial saved in that format too. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Nicholas 5 Posted July 9, 2011 If the audio drivers don't work, the only thing I can think of is to reinstall ArmA when you can. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Thom12 10 Posted July 9, 2011 kk, if it does not work I'll reply here =) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Thom12 10 Posted July 9, 2011 ah yeah it didnt worked Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Nicholas 5 Posted July 10, 2011 The only thing I can think of is to reinstall ArmA II, once you get the chance. And you uninstalled the old drivers and restarted before reinstalling...correct? After you uninstall and restart, it's a good idea to use Driver Sweeper as well. Don't uninstall drivers that you don't know what they are for, this is a powerful tool. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Thom12 10 Posted July 10, 2011 yeah that's a problem, even using that tool I got nothing... I guess I'll need to wait to reinstall the game =/ Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
