Fast fix to no sound problem

[Elvicat]

For thouse that have no sound or some sound and then it dissaperes, it's just a edited and ziped psclient.cfg file so just unzip it into your planeshift folder and you should be set to go.

Also it seems to fix some problems related to not being able to load the client on some systems, mainly windows.

psclient.cfg

more info on this on the bug tracker.
bugtracker

[Bovek Pelequn]

For those not willing to just blindly take a complete file from someone and figure out what is different:

Beginning Line 52 in psclient.cfg, found in your install folder:

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;Sound renderer
System.Plugins.iSndSysRenderer = crystalspace.sndsys.renderer.openal

Change that to this:

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;Sound renderer
;System.Plugins.iSndSysRenderer = crystalspace.sndsys.renderer.openal
System.PlugIns.iSndSysRenderer = crystalspace.sndsys.renderer.software

The semicolon comments out Line 53, and then a new line is added below it.

This corrected the problem for my WinXP and SigmaTel Audio

[Caarrie]

you can also try to see if there are updated drivers for your audio card, you can also google your card with version on google along with openal to see if there is any info on if it supports openal, if not then the above fix is all we have to work around the no sound issue.

[Mordaan]

This worked great for awhile.  Now I just crash on startup.  I reinstalled the client, got everything updated so it doesn't crash anymore, but making this change makes it crash.  So now I'm back to being without sound.

[Mordaan]

Update: with this latest update (new maps and whatever else) I gave this a try again and no crashies!!   
With the fix for the darkness bug, Mordaan can now both see and hear once again.         

[Elvicat]

happy ps'ing

[Hosaton]

For thouse that have no sound or some sound and then it dissaperes, it's just a edited and ziped psclient.cfg file so just unzip it into your planeshift folder and you should be set to go.

Cut and pasted the Sound renderer line into my old cfg and works fine.

Thank you!

[raffe]

Oh, cool! Now I have sound. Thanks!  

 
I have played maybe a month and thought that there was no sound because the client is a beta, but with this fix I got sound. It actually is more fun now.
 

Maybe this tip should also be in this post?:
http://www.hydlaaplaza.com/smf/index.php?topic=21503.0

[Nornian]

Hello!

This is my first post so please forgive me for my noobishness...However...

I've searched over the forum looking for a sound fix for Planeshift and I keep coming back to this topic...however whenever I attempt to take the link to the psclient.cfg zip file I keep running into a 404 file not found error... Am I doing something wrong? Or is there a problem with the link? Any help would be much appreciated. 

[Imshi]

This sound fix was for an older client version, and worked brilliantly for me. I don't think it would work with this version however. Try this, in the Planeshift Launcher go to Audio, tick Enable Sound, then choose OpenAL for Sound Renderer, not Software. Log into Planeshift and hopefully you will have music, sound effects etc.
 I'm not sure if OpenAL is included as part of the client now. If not google it for your Operating System.

[Gilrond]

OpenAL on windows is not working simply because the binary doesn't know where to look for it (if it's not installed in the system location). Devs should test it with clean system installation to avoid such bugs.