Beta 2 - Game sound still failing

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At times, for no apparent reason all game sound will stop, effects, music, everything. If I save, exit the game, restart GalCiv and reload the game everything is fine.
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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top
What's your sound card setup? What OS?
Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top
ditto for me, I had just saved the game manually for the first time and all the effects vanished. I have a Sound Blaster Live Value on Win98.
Ashes of the Singularity II
Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top
This happens on almost any setup. The sound just randomly dies, with no ill effect to the rest of GalCiv or to other sound devices/players.

(Yamaha OPL3-SAx on 98SE here)
Reply #4 from Stardock Forums Top
I have a "SoundMAX Integrated Digital Audio" and have been having this problem for many builds, all the way back into the Alpha. I had to wait until I was sure about the Beta 2 build to be sure, but it is still happening. In my case, it seems to start with just portions of the sound affects failing to play, then progresses to all sounds quiting.

Then a strange thing happened. The research "GNN" came up without the research music, so I sat there waithing for several seconds just to see if it would come up. I gave up on it and pressed the done button and the research music came up briefly in the transition from the research GNN screen to the other completions GNN.
Reply #5 from Stardock Forums Top
I have a the same problem with a sound blaster value on Win2000
Reply #6 from Stardock Forums Top
Creative Soundblaster Live (the original one)
Windows 2000 SP3
Current drivers from Creative
Current version of DirectX

Reply #7 from Stardock Forums Top
Just as a note, the sound problem appears to have cause my system to crash for the first time.

The research screen came up, the after about 15 seconds the sound died out, and shortly after, the game halted.