Only Music, No Sound When Playing The Game

Hi Happy New Year !

Try With Mainboard Onboard Sound , or make Sure Sound/s.gob File is there in Game Folder.

Send the TFE Log File also !

Game wouldn't start without SOUNDS.GOB - as mentioned above, try switching your audio output.

@s'toper Tycho

I think you use an 5.1/7.1 Ampfiler via. HDMI to your Graphicsard Sound right ?

And May yot have Set 5.1/7.1/Output in Windows also ?

So I tried installing DF and TFE on my other PC (still using that PC's NVIDIA GPU's soundcard too, and connected via 5.1 to a soundbar instead of regular amp this time) and the sound AND music work perfectly! Works regardless if Windows is set to STEREO or 5.1 SOUND on that PC.

Only thing I did differently is install the contents of "TheForceEngine-v1.01.001.ZIP" to:
C:\Games\Steam\steamapps\common\Dark Forces\
instead of:
C:\Games\Steam\steamapps\common\Dark Forces\Game\

Should that matter? IN the next few days I'm going to do a clean install of both on the problematic PC on the root \Dark Forces\ folder instead and see what happens.

TFE doesn't save settings in the Windows Registry or other folder locations (like My Documents, etc), does it?


Sidenote: Running DF in 2160p is glorious. Yes, the textures are pixelated 90s but having basically no aliasing or shimmering and being able to see extreme clarity in the distance is fantastic even for an old game. We live in amazing times when it comes to this tech. Also thanks for throwing in Xbox Series S/X controller support. Works flawlessly.

The problem still persists Here's what I did:

Uninstalled Dark Forces on Steam, deleted the game directory, reinstalled Dark Forces on Steam. Installed TFE to the main game directory this time.
Deleted all TFE files located in "c:\Users\ Your Profile Name \Documents\TheForceEngine\" and "c:\Users\All Users\TheForceEngine\" and reran the TFE executable to rebuild them.
Ran Windows 10 update and have all the latest updates. Rebooted PC a few times.
Downloaded the latest NVIDIA drivers 527.56 and rebooted.

Still, only the music plays in Dark Forces TFE version. No sound. If I launch the Dark Foces DOSBOX version from Steam, the music and sound play fine.
I probably have 40 games installed on this PC and all of them play the music and sound just fine. I have no issues with any of them except DF TFE.

Any ideas? I'd really like to be able to play this game again on my downstairs setup.
Again, sound and music work just fine on DF TFE on my upstairs PC, installed the same way and using HDMI out audio the same.

And by shimmering I mean aliasing from lower resolution jaggies. I can't wait for the hardware accelerated version in the future!

You can see what audio device TFE is trying to use in the log (/Documents/TheForceEngine/the_force_engine_log.txt). My guess is that it is using an unexpected output device. It should be the default. I need to add a sound output device selector to the UI to help with these issues.

Here is what the "/Documents/TheForceEngine/the_force_engine_log.txt" says. Looks like there's only 1 sound output, not 2 (1 for music, 1 for sound effects)? The music works so if they're both tied to the same sound device, something else must be going on?

[Main] The Force Engine
v1.01.000

[Paths] Program Path: "C:\Games\Steam\steamapps\common\Dark Forces\"
[Paths] Program Data: "C:\ProgramData\TheForceEngine\"
[Paths] User Documents: "C:\Users\chmet\Documents\TheForceEngine\"
[Paths] Source Data: "C:/Games/Steam/SteamApps/common/Dark Forces/Game/"
[Startup] TFE_System::init
[Display] Fullscreen enabled.
[Display] Vertical Sync enabled.
[RenderBackend] OpenGL Device Tier: 3
[Startup] TFE_AudioSystem::init