Not A Single Sound

[Calade 0]

Hello! So, as you can see from the title, my problem is no sound. There is not a single sound anywhere in my ArmA. I tried reinstalling, patching, booting and all kinds of things. I have never had a problem like this in any other game. What could be the problem?

[Messiah 2]

under sound options try turning hardware acceleration off

[wex-q 0]

If no change of settings work, check if the cables are well attatched and doesn't fit loosely, check the cables for any damage, and last but not least, check if the soundcard is badely attachted.

For 100% help, you could post what soundcard you have.

Regards

wex

[Calade 0]

Hardware acceleration is off by default, and as I said, I don't have this problem in any other game. I can even listen to music at the same time I play ArmA. About my soundcard, I'm not quite sure. I think it's some Nvidia.

[Messiah 2]

nvidia dont make sound cards do they?

right click on 'my computer', select properties, then the hardware tab and the select 'device manager'. Scroll down that list to 'sound, video and game controllers' and it will tell you what sound card you have, onboard or additional.

[Calade 0]

Ah yes, there was one Nvidia thingey in the sound, video and game controllers group, but I guess it wasn't the audio. Even thou it is called Audio Codec Interface. There is also one ATI thingey there, but it is my graphics card... And the rest are just some other stuff. No brand names etc.

[Messiah 2]

no realtek or anything like that?

do you have an onboard sound card or an additional pci/agp card? If you have onboard, try disabling EAX as well

[troop 0]

@ Calade

Which Mainboard do you have?

If you can not tell, download this little freeware prog, run it

and please post

Computer>Summary>Motherboard> 'Motherboard Name'

While you're at it please post also 'Display' and 'Multimedia'

parts of that summary. Here is mine as example:

http://img109.imageshack.us/img109/923/everestwm0.jpg

everest 2.20 home

http://www.filehippo.com/download_everest_home/

Did you reformat lately and not installing the chipset

drivers for your mainboard? (Very important.)

If there is some 'NVidia thingy' present, then yes,

you have an (NVidia branded) onboard sound solution;

most likely an AC'97 audio codec needs to be installed

properly.

Edit: Oh and which operating system are you running?

[Calade 0]

Motherboard: AOpen AK89 Max (5 PCI, 1 AGP, 3 DDR DIMM, Audio, Gigabit LAN, IEEE-1394)

Chipset: nVIDIA nForce3 150, AMD Hammer

Soundcard: nVIDIA MCP2 - Audio Codec Interface

OS: Windows XP Home Edition SP2

Haven't done a reformat lately.

[troop 0]

Well, its an risk, especially, if *all* of your other games have

ok sound;..but anyways, I would recommend you reinstall the

chipset drivers. (which include the Audio functionality for the

Nvidia MCP2)

Do you remember, which chipset drivers you installed within

Windows? Off the Mainboard support CD? Those are rather old

by now. Or did you buy the PC like this, not installing any

such drivers? Windows preinstalled?

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Are you familiar with backing up/restoring your entire C: drive?

Chipset driver install is critical and could go wrong;..so just in

case, DONT reinstall them, if you cannot have an backup of

your drive before! System restore point is not enough in this case!

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Once that is out of the way, and you've made your choice to do it,

download and install this (BETA! ) remix for your mainboard.

http://downloads.guru3d.com/download.php?det=1271

I have used this one rather than the (older versions) official

drivers from Nvidias site for several years on NForce 2 and 3

mainboards without issues. Also install the Nvidia IDE-SW drivers

(choice at installation)

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If this is too much, you also can extract the Audio driver files

from that package only. Do not run the .exe but use an

Program like Winrar or similar to extract the folders within.

There should be an Audio folder.

Within your device manager mark that Nvidia thingy, choose

'update drivers' and point to that Audio folder you extracted before. Reboot.

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You should get sound then; hopefully *also* within ArmA.

Before you get to it;..ask away.

[Calade 0]

I've been thinking of formating my computer when the summer holidays start, because if I would do it now, with school and stuff, I wouldn't probably have enough time to reinstall everything and so on. So I guess I'll get back to it when school ends... And maybe get some professional help so that I won't blow anything up. ^^

[shuko 59]

Dont bother reinstalling everything if its just Arma that doesnt work and music, other games etc work. There is something weird about how Arma handles sounds. At least with integrated "soundcards" on motherboards.

I have a nForce4 motherboard and coaxial cable from it to the amplifier. Everything (music, other games, tv-card etc) work just fine. When I start Arma, sounds stop. It even kills the music on winamp, which means Arma affects/takes control of something on the driver/software level. I've tried with and without hw acceleration, no difference.

I can hear everything when I plug in my headphones to the motherboard, so it's only the coax line out. Hopefully someone from BIS could comment on how Arma's sound system was designed, if it has more than 2 (left and right) channels and why aren't they front L/R on 7.1 surround.

Oh and, another weird thing in all of this is, even after Ive closed Arma, the sounds dont come back. Instead they need to be reinitialized somehow/by some other program.

[hoz 0]

I think you need to update your nforce drivers. It says they were released in 2004 so they are quite old.

http://usa.aopen.com/userdow....9%20Max

If that doesn't work try the OPenAL drivers.

[Calade 0]

I got a new soundcard now (needed it for my 5.1 speakers anyways) and now I don't have a single sound anywhere :P. Of course I can switch back to my old sound card anytime, but it would be nice to get this working.

So, it is positioned perfectly inside the computer and my Windows says that it is working well. It can be found from the list that was mentioned earlier in this post. But as I said, no sounds anywhere. I'm pretty sure the cables are fine (checked them about 50 times...). So, ideas? I also installed the drivers as far as I understand.

[desertfox 2]

Try installing these drivers for the AC97 onboard sound chip.

Realtek AC97 sound driver & codecs

[Calade 0]

Thanks to everyone! I got my new soundcard working now and the drivers helped with the old one.