No gunsounds [Fixed] +New bugs

[ElenaFoxy]

I have no mods.
I re-installed the game. Tried every solution written on the community. Nothing happens. I can hear the radio and the music but not the guns, except mine.
I tried on a mod recently (thinking it will fix it) and i can hear some other guns too that are included on the sound mod.
i want back my gunshot sounds please help me :/

[Ratha Wynter]

Heres a handful of questions which may help someone pinpoint your problem or give you ideas to try:

Have you ever had gun sounds on the computer you're playing on now? When was the last time they worked?

What are your in-game audio settings set at, quality level and which speaker type? Did you try changing the settings to something different and see if that worked?

What version of which operating system are you using? 32 or 64 bit?

What are your other hardware specs? Processor, ram, videocard, motherboard and or sound card. Which driver are you using for your sound card or onboard sound?

Are your speakers plugged into the correct (probably green) port? Depending on your sound card and settings, different ports can be responsible for different sounds in a multichannel speaker setup.

Have you updated your sound and video drivers recently and or tried manually reinstalling vcredist_x86 / x64 from the \steam\steamapps\common\insurgency2\_CommonRedist\vcredist\2010\ folder.

When you run DXDIAG from the run menu in windows, are there any sound conflicts?

Before you reinstalled did you make sure to delete the Insurgency folder for the game in case some leftover file or setting was causing your problem? You might try to back up and then rename/remove the \steam\steamapps\common\insurgency2\insurgency\cfg folder (which i think should delete all your settings) and see if that fixes the problem. (You may have to re-check the cache afterword.) You may also want to disable steam cloud sync as your config settings might be stored there? (right click Insurgency in steam, Properties, Updates. Steam cloud is at the bottom.)

Hopefully something in there helps.

EDIT: Someone also suggested deleting the steam cloud related files (but back them up first): they are located in \steam\userdata\<Steam User ID>\222880\" (Especially the files in \remote\cfg\)

EDIT2: Also, you may want to post which country you are playing from. Maybe the sound files for a certain localization of the game are broken?

[ElenaFoxy]

Originally posted by Ratha Wynter:

Heres a handful of questions which may help someone pinpoint your problem or give you ideas to try:

Have you ever had gun sounds on the computer you're playing on now? When was the last time they worked?

What are your in-game audio settings set at, quality level and which speaker type? Did you try changing the settings to something different and see if that worked?

What version of which operating system are you using? 32 or 64 bit?

What are your other hardware specs? Processor, ram, videocard, motherboard and or sound card. Which driver are you using for your sound card or onboard sound?

Are your speakers plugged into the correct (probably green) port? Depending on your sound card and settings, different ports can be responsible for different sounds in a multichannel speaker setup.

Have you updated your sound and video drivers recently and or tried manually reinstalling vcredist_x86 / x64 from the \steam\steamapps\common\insurgency2\_CommonRedist\vcredist\2010\ folder.

When you run DXDIAG from the run menu in windows, are there any sound conflicts?

Before you reinstalled did you make sure to delete the Insurgency folder for the game in case some leftover file or setting was causing your problem? You might try to back up and then rename/remove the \steam\steamapps\common\insurgency2\insurgency\cfg folder (which i think should delete all your settings) and see if that fixes the problem. (You may have to re-check the cache afterword.) You may also want to disable steam cloud sync as your config settings might be stored there? (right click Insurgency in steam, Properties, Updates. Steam cloud is at the bottom.)

Hopefully something in there helps.

EDIT: Someone also suggested deleting the steam cloud related files (but back them up first): they are located in \steam\userdata\<Steam User ID>\222880\" (Especially the files in \remote\cfg\)

EDIT2: Also, you may want to post which country you are playing from. Maybe the sound files for a certain localization of the game are broken?

Ok, first of all thank you very very much for replying to me :D

I used to have gun sounds before the last update.

I have set everything on default setting on the game + have tried different types of speakers on the game (none of them working)

I have windows 8 :3 64 bit.

Sound + Video drivers up to date (I have notifications for when i need to update them so i do that asap every time)

I am playing on a laptop so no external speakers (i could try plugging some though to see if its working) . Also, I am playing from Greece

:O I also gotta say. My console on the game shows some messages about missing sounds after today's update (which is actually true, i got sound files missing). Console never shoed those messages about missing soudns before today's update (25/3)
I will post asap exactly what it says


EDIT: when i go no a server i see this on my console:

Updating player list, server change
env_cubemap used on world geometry without rebuilding map. . ignoring: maps/door/door03
SignalXWriteOpportunity(3)
Attempted to precache unknown particle system "blood_impact_red_01"!
Attempted to precache unknown particle system "blood_impact_red_01"!
Attempted to precache unknown particle system "blood_impact_green_01"!
Attempted to precache unknown particle system "blood_impact_green_01"!
The server is using sv_pure 1. (Custom pure server rules.)
Unable to load sprite material materials/sprites/blueglow1.vmt!
Unable to load sprite material materials/sprites/purpleglow1.vmt!
Unable to load sprite material materials/sprites/purplelaser1.vmt!
Unable to load sprite material materials/sprites/white.vmt!
Unable to load sprite material materials/sprites/physbeam.vmt!
Unable to load sprite material materials/sprites/gunsmoke.vmt!
Unable to load sprite material materials/sprites/bubble.vmt!
SignalXWriteOpportunity(3)
==== calling mapspawn.nut
Receiving uncompressed update from server
Loading theater file 'default' on client
Can't find factory for entity: sec_nightvision
NULL Ent in UTIL_PrecacheOther
Can't find factory for entity: ins_nightvision
NULL Ent in UTIL_PrecacheOther
Redownloading all lightmaps
Receiving uncompressed update from server
Loading theater file 'default' on client
[Sound] S_StartSound(): Failed to load sound 'weapons\sks\handling\sks_boltback.wav'. File is missing from disk/repository.
[Sound] S_StartSound(): Failed to load sound 'weapons\sks\handling\sks_boltrelease.wav'. File is missing from disk/repository.

[Ratha Wynter]

Are the sounds missing only with a specific weapon, or does it happen with most weapons? Is it only on a certain map or does it happen on other maps too? Single player, multiplayer? Maybe it only happens on a specific server? Have you tried other servers?

Your best bet at the moment would probably be to give exact steps to reproduce the problem and see if anyone else can confirm it. That should tell us whether its a bug in the most recent patch, or a bug with something on your system.

There were a couple of sound-related suggestions in this thread: http://steamcommunity.com/app/222880/discussions/1/618456760271156245/ with Arc recommending to delete the \insurgency2\insurgency\insurgency_sound.vpk.sound.cache, and restart both steam and the game. Then LEWD_ recommended typing "snd_restart" into the console without the quotes and seeing if maybe that would fix it.

It sounds more like a bug with the game, or your install of the game, rather than a problem with your drivers or sound card though. If you provide more instructions on how to specifically reproduce the problem, i can check later to see if i also have a similar issue. But would need to know which class, which weapon, which map, and single or multiplayer testing.

[ElenaFoxy]

As i said i did everything found on the community. I saw the thread and did everything Arc suggested :P still not working for me.

It happens with both single and muti player. All maps. All weapons. All classes. All servers :P
I can only hear my gun.

Ps. I tried a sound pack some time ago and i could hear more guns than mine. I guess i heard the guns that were included on the soundpack. Uninstalled it though for the sake of finding a real way out of my problem

[ElenaFoxy]

Update:

so today i verified the cash (for the 100th time) and it found 2 files missing.
Downloaded them again and seemed like i had gunsounds for some minutes. After that they magically disappeared again ._.

[NateSCC]

Originally posted by WTFN ErnaFoxy:

i did everything found on the community.

Did you also try this?

A Fix For "Common Problems"
http://steamcommunity.com/app/222880/discussions/1/617328415061886289/

[Ratha Wynter]

Do you have an antivirus or firewall program that could be interfering? Its very odd that you'd have sounds and then lose them again unless something on your system is changing.. Did you happen to notice what server/map you were on when they were working, and did the disappear on the same server/map before it changed?

[ElenaFoxy]

Originally posted by Ratha Wynter:

Do you have an antivirus or firewall program that could be interfering? Its very odd that you'd have sounds and then lose them again unless something on your system is changing.. Did you happen to notice what server/map you were on when they were working, and did the disappear on the same server/map before it changed?

My firewall and antivirus were the first things i checked when this happened ._. nothing seemed to interfere with insurgency. By the way, the sounds disappeared on the same server and game i was on

[ElenaFoxy]

Originally posted by Nate S. Cray Cray:

Originally posted by WTFN ErnaFoxy:

i did everything found on the community.

Did you also try this?

A Fix For "Common Problems"
http://steamcommunity.com/app/222880/discussions/1/617328415061886289/

Thank you I just tried it but no good outcome.
I sitll have no gunsoudns. In addition to that, i'm back to default settings and all my key bindings are lost.. I'll re-install the game once more and see what happens

[NateSCC]

Originally posted by WTFN ErnaFoxy:

In addition to that, i'm back to default settings and all my key bindings are lost.. I'll re-install the game once more and see what happens

Yea, maybe I need to give a warning about that, just because its obvious to me, doesn't mean it is to everyone else..


Have you tried restoring defaults for your sound?

I have no idea what it's called in Win8, so here's a google search picture..

http://scorecloud.com/wp-content/uploads/advanced-tab.png

(Restore Defaults)

[ElenaFoxy]

Originally posted by Nate S. Cray Cray:

Originally posted by WTFN ErnaFoxy:

In addition to that, i'm back to default settings and all my key bindings are lost.. I'll re-install the game once more and see what happens

Yea, maybe I need to give a warning about that, just because its obvious to me, doesn't mean it is to everyone else..


Have you tried restoring defaults for your sound?

I have no idea what it's called in Win8, so here's a google search picture..

http://scorecloud.com/wp-content/uploads/advanced-tab.png

(Restore Defaults)

Nope didnt work either ._.

[NateSCC]

Originally posted by WTFN ErnaFoxy:

I have set everything on default setting on the game + have tried different types of speakers on the game (none of them working)

Just to be sure, you have also tried changing the "Sound Quality" (in-game), right?

[ElenaFoxy]

Originally posted by Nate S. Cray Cray:

Originally posted by WTFN ErnaFoxy:

I have set everything on default setting on the game + have tried different types of speakers on the game (none of them working)

Just to be sure, you have also tried changing the "Sound Quality" (in-game), right?

yup couple of times. and the sound output thingy (im not sure if thats what its called). Ive changed it many times from 2-4 speakers to headset and all

[NateSCC]

Do you know how to make an "autoexec.cfg"?

[ElenaFoxy]

Originally posted by Nate S. Cray Cray:

Do you know how to make an "autoexec.cfg"?

I'm afraid i don't :P
I only have basic knowledge of computers