Sound Problem in Dark Avatar but not in GalCiv2 (VISTA)

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Hi I have problems with sound in Dark Avatar (music works though).

The music works most of the time (sometimes goes off during the game) but I cannot get sound effects to work.

In GalCiv2 everything is fine, there is sound there is music etc.
I have tried to switch off sound and music and back on in the options but all I can do is switch off the background music.

I have just let my PC download a 250!!!!! MB patch for which I pay dearly. Patch 1.61.090.
The problem remains.

I do run Vista but I dont think that is the problem. I run a 8800 GTS for graphics and Audigy 2 for sound.

Any ides what is wrong? Why does everything work in GALCIV2 but not in DARK AVATAR.
PS: I moved my game dir from my XP pc when I installed VISTA, and re-registered.

Also why cant Stardock Central automatically pick up that I already have Dark Avatar on my Harddrive? Why must I download a patch before it can run it? Why cant I link it to Stardock by letting it search for it.

Phew Thanks,
Gabor
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Reply #1 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Please go to C:\Program Files\Stardock\Totalgaming\GalCiv2 (or wherever you installed the game at), open the debug.err file you find there in notepad, and copy/paste the contents into a post here. If this is a DA report, you'll find the debug in C:\Program Files\Stardock\Totalgaming\GalCiv2\DarkAvatar instead. This will give us some technical information that can help troubleshoot your problem.

Be sure to copy the debug immediately after the error occurs; if you start the game again, the debug will be erased and recreated for the new session.

Note: If running on Vista with DA 1.6b2 or later, the debug.err is now located in My Documents\My Games\GC2DarkAvatar.

Also why cant Stardock Central automatically pick up that I already have Dark Avatar on my Harddrive? Why must I download a patch before it can run it? Why cant I link it to Stardock by letting it search for it.


SDC relies on the registry entries in order to determine what's installed; it won't search your entire machine for SD software. If you just mvoed the game's files over rather than installing normally, the registry entries wouldn't be there. That'd also be why when you tried to patch, it downloaded the entire game rather than just the changed files.