Suddenly No Sound in BS2

Yes I have done a search and yes I have covered what I could from the FC2 sound discussion mentioned in a thread on this page.

My problem is that I have zero sound in the BS cockpit. This problem began about 2 weeks ago and well after weeks without issues since 1.1.1.1. GUI sound (clicks and music) are fine. The 3D sounds are not weak. They are non-existant. No sounds: engine, rotor, cockpit clicks, rounds striking the heli--no sounds are heard. All sliders are at 100%. No modifications to any config files have ever been made. A10 1.1.1.1 works fine. This is the sound file and the zeros seem suspect to me. Actually everything in LUA-script seems suspect to me. Which is why I don't wish to fiddle with it without some confirmation that it is incorrect.

 

 

local mapping = {

global_volume = {"volume", -3},

ui_volume = {"gui", 0},

music_volume = {"music", 0},

world_volume = {"world", 0},

cockpit_volume = {"cockpit", 0},

headphones_volume = {"headphones", 0},

}

sound = {}

local k,m

for k,m in pairs(mapping) do

local vol = 0

if options and options.sound and options.sound[m[1]] <= 0 then

vol = options.sound[m[1]]

end

sound[k] = vol + m[2]

end

 

--[[ test dump

for k,v in pairs(sound) do

print (k.." = "..v)

end

]]

P.S., I did "fiddle" with it by changing the 0 values to 5. No change.

Reinstalled yet?

If your drivers are working and up to date and your DCS install is really not corrupt. - I have only one guess:

Please check your sound control-panel of windows, if each slider is really up.

(I post this as you didn't made clear which sliders exactly you are talking about: "All sliders are at 100%" )

Since Windows7 each application has its own volume control.

And as the GUI and Sim are technical different applications - it has no meaning if you can hear the button click of the GUI but nothing inside the Sim (as you can see on the screen-shot).

Well I'll be a monkey arse! I swear I have never seen that mixer before. I am new to Windows 7 and didn't even know that there was app-specific settings. Anyway, that did it! Thanks!

Well...That's why I'm posting it...;)

Hi comrades,

I have also experienced this same error with the BS2-sound, but what I did was reinstall the sim ....

Now I have another strange error.

Whenever I download the files for installation, I´ve never had any problems in any of the download sites. But when I run the installer, always (and remarked as usual) gives me some corrupt file error.

Anyone know why this can happen?

I changed my antivirus, I tried to do the install without antivirus also and nothing ... always the same error.

Helppp !!!

Thanks.

Have you checked the md5 hashes of the install files? It sounds like a corrupt file, which can happen for any number of reasons ranging from internet problems (on your end, ED's end, or anywhere in between) to cosmic rays flipping a bit in your RAM. (Though this latter isn't exactly likely.)

If you downloaded via bittorrent this should not be a problem - it automatically hash-checks the files.

Well I'll be a monkey arse! I swear I have never seen that mixer before. I am new to Windows 7 and didn't even know that there was app-specific settings.

as were many other features that most people think were introduced in Windows 7...

Well,

Not everyone did go this route XP>Vista>Win7...

;)I never installed Vista on my own system. - because it was absolute unusable for my purpose

-so I stayed with XP and I never noticed this "big changes";)...until Win7 - and many other Flight-simmers did the same.