Soundpack Problems

[ROX]

Dear Skuzzmeister or others Qualified:

I had downloaded a different soundpack (Ranger's) and it was awesome!  I totally respect all the work he and others have done to put that together.

There is a problem however, with perk planes.  When I take up a ME 262, or F4U-4 or F4U-C model and put on the flaps or other key command (especially the "Q" key") it immediately boots me to "The game has performed an error" screen, I get booted and lose all my perkies.

While I love the added sound pack, when I look at the folder I had saved all my "old" sounds to, it's empty, with just a text file.

I would like to get all the old sounds back, as hokey as they were....just to know that the next time I take up a perk plane. I won't get screwed out of my perkies due to a soundpack glitch.

Skuzzmeister, do I have to delete the game, delete the soundpack sounds, and re-download the game to do that?

Is it possible to have a "download" section that is just for original sounds??

Additionally:  I wish to save my skins, joystick settings, maps, terrains, etc, and don't want to have to go through that hassle again.  Can I save those to an external drive and re-install them later in the proper folders?

I am just growing tired of losing perk planes (while landing scalps) to sound pack glitches.  I would rather have the old sounds and keep my perkies while I land my scalps.

What do you recommend?

Thank you in advance, and I am glad you folks in Dallas fared better than we did in Arkansas from Ike.




73




ROX

[Soulyss]

I would think your best bet would to have a friend just zip up the "sounds" folder than either file transfer or upload them someplace, you could then just cut and paste to remove the offending sounds.  I'd offer myself but I seem to have deleted the defaults somewhere along the way.

[The Fugitive]

I have saved my settings and skins folders. When I got  my new computer recently I just swapped the file over and all worked fine.

As to the sounds, they have to be mono, and recorded at certain settings to work with the game and not cause the crashes. While I'm sure everyone is very carefull, some will get through set wrong. I use Twinbooms sounds. I have never had an issue, and they sound great. You could try those sounds and see how things go.

[Skuzzy]

Clean out the 'sounds' folder will remove the custom sounds.  All the game's default sounds are in the "sounds.res" file in the root game installation folder.  As long as the "sounds.res" file is in place, the default sounds will play when custom sounds are not available.

And yes, there are problems with some sound packs.  If you are using an onboard sound chip, then I would strongly discourage the use of custom sounds.

[ROX]

Skuzzy, Fugitive, et al...

THANK YOU all very much for your time!

I really appreciate your help.






ROX

[USRanger]

Hey ROX, I've never heard anyone post any problems with it before.  Perhaps you got a corrupt download or something.  It's the exact pack I have running so I don't know what the issue could be.  Are you using on-board sounds, or a sound card?  Update your sound card drivers maybe?  Just trying to think what it could be, because I know it's not the pack or everyone would have this problem.  Hmm...

[Skuzzy]

The issue can be one of high sample rates over-running the onboard sound chip.  The longer the loop, the more likely this can happen.  Onboard sound devices simply do not have the hardware to handle high sample rate sounds as virtually all the functions are actually handled by the CPU.  The slower the CPU or a busy CPU, the more likely it will crash.

[Soulyss]

oh hey, Skuzz's idea is much easier.... I shoulda thought of that.