Lost Sound

Just got a new PC, Hard drive from My old PC in as slave dragged my old TSC classic over from old hard drive (have so much AP stuff etc installed did not want to just do a redownload via steam) verified integrity of game files, and it looks better than ever, and runs faster.

Snag is I have absolutely no sound. sound runs fine on everything else including TSW4.

Any one any suggestions?

 

A windows update as messed it up.


You'll need to download a new OpenAl32.dll, extract file from zip folder

Create a copy from the extracted file that call it OpenAl64.dll

Delete the two in the railworks folder and copy the new two that was downloaded and paste them into railworks folder.

That should solve it,

https://www.dll-files.com/openal32.dll.html

saw this elsewhere with someone having the same issue

 

Steam forums has a thread - it is apparently an issue affecting players with 3rd party AV software. (Use Windows Defender only!)

 

Thanks for your time guys, I have display settings maxed out and higher resolution, it looks amazing, just sounds incredibly peaceful at present

 

Replaced the .dll files, still silence, any other ideas anyone?

 

sorted it thanks guys, installed DX9, and rant the install sound.bat

 

While that may work for you, it could cause trouble in the future. You should not run the TS2019 setup_audio.bat., the supplied OpenAL32/64.dlls in the root folder are the correct ones. setup_audio.bat will install old version from the Install folder, which your AV doesn't block, that's all.

It has been found that the reason is rogue AV scanners blocking the sound on TSC. Disable or even better uninstall 3rd party AV scanners.

 

Similar problems with a lack of sound were asked on the UKTS Forums- yes, its still there.

The problem was found to be third party AV casing problems.

 

And the same posts on Steam. Two of them. I haven't been using AV programs for a few years now in Windows 10 and 11 and just rely on Windows Defender Windows 10 and 11 inbuilt virus checker.

 

If you are using AVAST/AVG antivirus delete them, they are the source of your problem.

 

AVG uninstalled, that was the problem

 

I suspect AVG has an issue with the TSC-tailored custom OpenAL.dlls. It seems it does not recognize them as "official" OpenAL releases and thus blocks access to these dlls.

They are approved by Microsoft Windows Security and Steam, so it's clearly AVG's fault.

 

Some info from DTG:
https://dovetailgames.freshdesk.com...172-why-is-there-no-sound-in-train-simulator-