Random Windows Alert Sound

[Gill_Magical]

Lately when i play this i keep hearing the Windows alert chime effect, a few times i will alt-tab when i hear it but i can't find a source for it. I tried muting the system sounds in the sound mixer but it had no effect, the only way to stop it is to mute the game in the mixer, which i would rather not do. Anyone here had any experience with this issue?

[Wormic]

I suppose you're talking about Brath of Winter. It's a problem with the soundtrack, they recorded the sound while recording the music, can't fix it, was a mistake by them.

[Gill_Magical]

LOL, guess that makes sense considering all the other mistakes I've encountered so far (spelling, grammar and translation errors). Thanks for the response though, glad to have an answer finally.

[Wormic]

what language are you playing the game in ?

[Gill_Magical]

English. Some of the words are spelt incorrectly and at times the text will be in german or some other language.

[Wormic]

Since the game's original language in German, the other versions are, well, not as good when it comes to Text/speech etc. I'd recommend playing it in German if you know enough of the language to understand it

[Just Chill]

I wondered if I am the only one which realized that there is a windows alert sound recorded into the soundtrack. ^^

And yes, the german voice is best.
I wonder why they didn't make the english voice actors a bit more enthusiastic.
The one who voices Seno the Dentist and a few dwarves sounds pretty good.
There are also others which have a good record, but still not compareable to the quality of the german voice actors.

That drunken dwarf in Greyfell for example is really hilarious in german, but the english one really sounds like that someone "is playing drunk", but not really drunk.



Well, as I only record my games in english, I gotta stick to it, even if I know the german version is better.
I already found a point, where they even forgot to record english voice:
https://youtu.be/QTHiNlLcNRw?t=3855

[liosalpha]

That clip... I have the hardcopy of the game from way back when. and played it may times even do the hermit quest
but i never had him say that... all was in english. im not sure tis the steam version gave me any thing like that...

[Just Chill]

XDDDD
This is a rodian sound from Star Wars Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast.
I've put it in as some kind of funny placeholder, as there is no voice in the first place.
I've even made a comment about that on Youtube, but it may be a bit misleading.
My bad.

By the way, it's not something he should say, but it's the player's choice answer, which has no sound.
So actually she (my char), should say something except that rodian weirdo voices I inserted. ;)

The german version definitely has voice there.

[Mama Sasha]

Originally posted by Just Chill:

I wondered if I am the only one which realized that there is a windows alert sound recorded into the soundtrack. ^^

Might be a little late but i can also recall that the wolf howl sound you hear at night, have a windows alert sound in it. I realized that it was a Windows Xp sound since by the time i was playing this game, i was playing it on my Windows 98, so i knew that something was wrong lol.

My guess is that when they where recording (Instead of aquiring the howl sound unless its custom made), they accidently recorded the windows alert sound that somehow they didnt notice, but i wouldnt know what sort of process they did for the sound system.

Try this out. Wait til night and listen for wolf howl sound. Somewhere within that audio clip, you hear it.

[SuperBritishQuokka]

german voice acting is fine except the male hero of the maincampaign. no emotion at all.

I thought the error sound did the game because there were issues with playing the music/soundfiles, but wow. recorded error bling.. wow..

[GothicIII]

Originally posted by Wormic:

I suppose you're talking about Brath of Winter. It's a problem with the soundtrack, they recorded the sound while recording the music, can't fix it, was a mistake by them.

Oh man you solved a mystery which was driving me crazy. I played it on very weak hardware back then and thought something crashed and that made me paranoid.
Now playing on W11 with crazy hardware and hearing that Windows sound again and beeing an IT nerd I already new that that this alert sound must be from ingame music/transition/sound. That instantly brought me back to the older days.

This is an insane bug! But thank you for providing an answer!