Sound Problem

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I got the game a few days ago and I am having the same problem I had with Spore where the sound would not always work. It seems complete random the sound works fine during the opening stuff but once it gets to the main menu it stops working. I fixed it in spore by changing its sound settings to use 4 speakers when my laptop only has 2 but there is no option for that in Sins so all I can do is restart the game and hope it works.

Laptop Specs

Toshbia Satalight Pro A200 PASE7

Vista Business 32-bit, up to date unless the icon is being stupid and not showing

Sound card just says “Realtek High Definition Audio” and another saying “High Definition Audio Device” Drivers are up to date going by the Toshiba site.

Game version is 1.09b (i think that is what it said when I installed it had the beta box checked in the settigns)

edit: er did i post this in the correct section i dont see it showing up and it dose not say Technical in catagroy on the my posts thing)

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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top

 

That's one of the problems with notebooks.  Because they're so proprietary the drivers are left up to the individual notebook manufacturer to update (some of which rarely do in fact update them).

Especially if this was happening in Spore as well, you should maybe complain on the Toshiba website to get them to update their drivers for the soundcard with a fix?

There are settings for SINS which you can change within the user.setting file (which are not reflected as "options" in-game), might try looking there?

 

the Monk

Reply #2 from Sins Forums Top

Well the last update for my sound drivers was back at the start of this year but no idea how often they are normally updated.

 

I have changed some sound use hardware from false to true but probally wont know if it has actually worked for a while are the problam is compleatly random and only when i start the game. Thanks

 

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Reply #3 from Sins Forums Top

Sometimes the audio in games on Vista gets somewhat mixed-up depending on what settings you use.

Try going to your control panel, make it the classic view, select sound, then the tab recording.

right-click and see if there's a "v" nect to disabled devices. If not so click it.

Then enable stereo mixing.

 

I hope it helps.