Dungeon Dilettante
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Joined: Friday, 31st January 2014, 10:51
Sound mod - no sounds playing
I'm new to crawl and I love the game already. I wanted to try the game out with sounds, not because I feel that the game NEEDs it, but I wanted to try it out. When I watched a youtube video showing Stone Soup with sounds, I noticed the sounds weren't that great however, so I actually wanted to try and work on my own library for it with more toned down, realistic sounds.
However I can't even get any sounds to play at all. The YT video said paste the entire sound code at the end of init.txt (I get it, # lines are comments, I'm a programmer), and leave the "sound" folder so that it's in the same folder as crawl.exe, so /CrawlsExeDir/sound/(the sound wavs). Tried re-installing a fresh copy of Crawl and re-installing the mod again, in case I made a mistake like deleting or overwriting something in init on accident. Moved CrawlsDir to C drive to avoid the potential problem that some games have with longer filepaths --> C:/Crawl/sound/(the sounds). Set WMP back to my default .wav player (my default sound/video player was set as VLC media player). I've opened and checked init.txt to verify that I did actually save it (so it wasn't something dumb like opening init.txt, pasting the code, leaving the notepad file open and trying to test without having saved first). Verified that the folder name called for in init.txt is the same folder name the sounds are in. i.e. the problem is not "sound" vs "sounds". The problem is not a .zip filepath/extraction error, i.e. CrawlDir/sound/sound/(the sounds). After all my attempts, there are still no sounds in-game. The sounds themselves seem to play fine if I play them individually (opened in either VLC or WMP). (Of course I have no issues related to playing sound on my computer in other ways/in other games.) What's up?
I'm running Windows XP Pro 64-bit. I can give more specs if needed but I suspect there's just some bool I need to flip or something simple.
Thanks!