Steam & Windows 8 display problem

alo357 · July 31, 2013, 12:55am

I do remember trying to run it after the free weekend when i wasn’t aware that it had ended. steam wont help though - they just directed me to you guys. i’ll remove the folder and reinstall tomorrow afternoon

darkstar076 · July 31, 2013, 1:11am

Yes, I am sorry to say that I have had similar experiences with Steam when it comes to receiving game support.
( But that is a story best told over a drink.)

Nevertheless, fingers crossed for good luck and I hope that the latest idea works.

alo357 · July 31, 2013, 9:33pm

the idea of uninstalling the game and deleting the folder in my games worked, but now I only get the main menu sounds but not the battle ones which means that my victories aren’t as sweet cause nothing can be heard exploding

darkstar076 · July 31, 2013, 9:37pm

Have you fully zoomed into the gratuitous battles ?
If not, at maximum zoom-out your perspective is so far away that you would likely not hear the sounds of the explodiness. That is mainly due to the size of your monitor - more game can now fit on your screen.

I will assume you have already gone through the options and made sure both volumes are set at audible levels.

alo357 · August 1, 2013, 1:52am

max zoom, min zoom no sound from either and all my sounds are at max, couls it perhaps be the fact that i’m using earphones to play

darkstar076 · August 1, 2013, 2:00am

Hmm, once again I only have questions:

Do you have aux speakers? If so do they generate the sounds?
When you move the slider for Sound FX do you hear it run a sound FX (explosion if i recall correctly)

Current thoughts, off the top of my head, i am wondering if it is a 5.1 sound issue.
Maybe change your Windows setup to dual speaker.

It also might be worth checking the debug files.

alo357 · August 1, 2013, 2:23pm

others on steam have reported this issue but can’t find the GSB forums. and when i adjust the sound fx slider there is no sound other than the main menue music, the buttons in the menues have a clicking sound and my two speakers are set up to play, even without the earphones there are no battle sounds.

darkstar076 · August 1, 2013, 10:23pm

Well, for starters I have my games mixed up. It’s GTB that creates the sound effects when you move the slider; not GSB.

Ok, here is a quick test
First go to options and made the following adjustments.
Turned off:

Hardware Sounds
Distortion FX
Pitch shift sounds
music slider to minimum

Crank up

Master Volume
Sound FX Volume sliders to maximum

Tutorial mission:
Used one Federation Eagle equipped with 4 Cruiser lasers, 3 fusion beams and engines, shields, armour, power and crew to make it work.

Zoomed in on the Eagle and heard

The rumble of the engines
Fusion beams “burn”
Lasers “pew”
Explosions from the enemy

Side note, lets have a look at the debug.txt file, it should look something like this:

----DEBUG FILE----
Windows XP detected
GSB Debug File. App version Full 1.63
Desktop resolution is 1024 x 768
Initialising Direct3D
Initialising global vertex buffer
creating render targets
success in initialising 3D
Initialising Direct Input
Finished Initialising Direct Input
Initialising Sound Engine
Initialised Sound System with 512 channels

Finished Initialising Sound Engine
GBufferedFile failed to open file

I am most interested in the sound engine and to make sure it has enough channels for all the sound effects

alo357 · August 2, 2013, 1:30am

still nothing, a lot of people think that its one of the previous updates (2nd last from what i can gather) and thought that the last update might fix it but were dissapponted when it didn’t work

darkstar076 · August 2, 2013, 1:53am

Right, so there is something conflicting with the sound engine. Can you post the debug.txt file (or PM it to me) so I can see if there is any information that would help determine where the issue is.

alo357 · August 2, 2013, 2:10pm

[code]----DEBUG FILE----
Windows XP detected
GSB Debug File. App version Full 1.63
Desktop resolution is 1920 x 1080
Initialising Direct3D
Initialising global vertex buffer
creating render targets
success in initialising 3D
Initialising Direct Input
Finished Initialising Direct Input
Initialising Sound Engine
Initialised Sound System with 512 channels

Finished Initialising Sound Engine
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