A very stupid question...

[SidiousDragon]

hi, great work everybody, I've just downloaded exult, and its brought back fond memories of 1992

Now, rather stupidly, I've downloaded the sound packs for u7 and SI, but I can't get any sound to work. Help please?

[BigFreak]

You stuck em in ur data subdirectory under exult?

[gruck]

Do you have the 1.1 snapshot? The digital sound only work with that version.

[gruck]

Whoa.. I think I misinterpreted you, you only need the 1.1 version for the OGG music

[wjp]

Which version of Exult are you using on which operating system?

[Dominus]

this doesn't help?
http://exult.info/docs.php#wave_sfx

[SidiousDragon]

I downloaded the packs, stuck them in the data directory, checked the cfg file, but the exult menu shows the no audio icons.

I'm running version 1.0 on Win ME, using an Audigy2 sound card.

[sjs191]

Hmmm hard to guess what's going wrong here. I'm not sure whether 1.0 looks for the FLX files in the data directory by default, you may need to explicitly specify the path to the files in your exult.cfg file.

I keep the FLX files in f:\data\jmsfx.flx and f:\data\jmsisfx.flx so the relevant section of my exult.cfg file looks like this:



f:\data\ultima7


(default)


f:\data\jmsfx.flx




f:\data\serpent


(default)


f:\data\jmsisfx.flx

[Colourless]

The path indicated in the key can be reletive to the exult path, exult data path, or be an absolute path.

[Skutarth]

It's not a stupid question. Don't degrade yourself...

[Skutarth]

You know, this reminds me of those chirping birds...

[Dirty Hairy]

I had a similar problem (with audio options not recognized properly) and found out the program had appended a second configuration block at the end of the regulat config file. Happened with the 1.1.x branch....

[wjp]

Do you still have the double config file?

The most likely (IMHO) cause is probably a typo in the first block, btw.

[Dirty Hairy]

No, I'm afraid I deleted the double part of the file. It might have been a typo, but then again, I only kept the first block, and it worked.
This happend while exult was crashing, so perhaps this happened during a crash (though I can't imagine how... ).