My Game Has No Sound when Run on Windows 8

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Miss Blitz(Posted 2014) [#1]
Everything else works fine. Why would this happen? I made my game on an Acer Netbook. that runs on Windows XP, if that's helpful.

Has anybody else experienced this problem?
Thanks so much for lending an ear! Take care!


markcw(Posted 2014) [#2]
I always run samples/firepaint to test if sound works on an OS.

You can also try playing mod/brl/audio/loadsound


xlsior(Posted 2014) [#3]
Are you specifying a sound driver in your program?

Blitzmax can use OpenAL, DirectSound, or Freeaudio -- although each has their own advantages and downsides on different windows versions.

(In general, directSound has been depreciated by Microsoft, so I guess it's possible that it may not work properly under windows 8 unless the user has also installed DirectX 9c in addition to the default DirectX that comes with windows 8 already)


Miss Blitz(Posted 2014) [#4]
@munch: I tried running firepaint like you suggested, and it worked quite well. I also tried playing the sound files in my project on a Windows Media Player in the other OS and they worked there. Strange.

@xlsior That sounds promising. I'll go check that out.

Thank you both. ^_^


Miss Blitz(Posted 2014) [#5]
Ah, and there we go! What a relief!