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Realms of Arkania 3 Soundblaster support?

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First post, by kjps86

Posted on 2012-12-20, 20:37

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Hello,

I've got the GOG version of Realms of Arkania 3, but it seems like it is missing some sounds, particularly during the intro where it is completely silent. It is running off of a bin/cue image, and I've tried running it in DOSbox myself and setting up the sound via the setup utility.

Does anyone know if this is how the game originally ran, or if there is something I'm not doing to make it work?

As usual, any help is appreciated.

Reply 1 of 5, by eL_PuSHeR

Posted on 2012-12-21, 08:44

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Do you mean Shadows over Riva right? If so, I recall the music tracks are redbook audio. And very nice and atmospheric soundtrack by the way.

Reply 2 of 5, by Mau1wurf1977

Posted on 2012-12-21, 10:44

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Open the cue file (the smaller one). It should have a list of the audio tracks.

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Reply 3 of 5, by kjps86

Posted on 2012-12-22, 05:25

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Sorry for the lack of info. To be more clear, the redbook CD audio plays fine. I'm more interested in whether the digital sound effects in the game are somehow broken and/or missing. When you start the game and the credits are rolling, there is no audio whatsoever, and it really seems like there should be some.

Does anyone have the original release or additional info?

Reply 4 of 5, by ripsaw8080

Posted on 2012-12-22, 19:28

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The three Smacker movies for the credits (FanPro, Attic, and SirTech) do not contain audio according to the RADVideo tools, and no cdaudio track is playing over them, so silence seems correct. There should be digital audio over the intro sequence (screenshot), though.

Reply 5 of 5, by kjps86

Posted on 2012-12-23, 07:12

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Thanks. As long as that is the case then everything is working properly.

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