Maybe this thread can be of help?

Edit:It applies only to the 227 patch though, and I can't remember if that patch worked on 9x or not.
I did find this, which supposedly puts back the old weapon sounds.

I'll keep on looking though.

Thanks Tetrium I completely missed the forums on oldunreal.

So I take it the Steam version of Unreal Gold could be missing something or is it just that Epic Games changed some of the game sounds and such ?

version 219 of Unreal is normally the last with the original sounds.

Unreal Gold never had the original sounds since it's 226, I believe.

BigBodZod wrote:

So I take it the Steam version of Unreal Gold could be missing something or is it just that Epic Games changed some of the game sounds and such ?

Actually, I learned something today. I did notice the weapons sounded different on different rigs of mine, but I had always assumed it was the sound card that made the weapons sound different.
I now found out that it's actually one of the official patches that make them sound differently. So if you install using an old retail disk, it will use the old weapon sounds. If you patch that or use an installation that's already updated to the latest 226 patch (like the DVD version or perhaps also the STEAM version), you'll be getting the new weapon sounds.

And actually I like the older sounds better 😁

The new sounds in Unreal are the same ones that are used in UnrealTournament.

EDIT: I like the old sounds better for unreal (they fit better IMHO) but I was forced to update Unreal due to a bug that kept occurring causing the armour meter not to update when picking up a new armour and not reducing damage when still wearing armour while it still got damaged.

They also got rid of the dispersion pistol trail in a patch too.

Yes they indeed did. However the unofficial 227I patch enables you to get all of that good stuff back! 😊 I just tried it on my main rig, hopefully it works on my win 98Se machine as well.

memsys wrote:

Yes they indeed did. However the unofficial 227I patch enables you to get all of that good stuff back! 😊 I just tried it on my main rig, hopefully it works on my win 98Se machine as well.

I 'think' I tried the 277 patch (don't know which revision) before and it wouldn't install on anything lower then XP or 2k. So I installed KernelEx and it worked, but it somehow broke some of the other games that had previously worked. This was on ME btw. Maybe 98SE isn't affected that way?

I don't know. Just a FYI 😉

I have just tested it and the unofficial 227I patch does not work on 98SE sadly.
The mod does does give you the old weapon sounds but not the dispersion pistol trail.