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First post, by marianoryu

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Hello - I'm attempting to run SnowWave Avalanche/Snowboard Racer/TechDeck Snowboarding in Windows 10 64-bit.

The game works just fine, and looks just fine with dgVoodoo 2.53.

The bad part is, I get no sound whatsoever. No CD audio, no sound effects at all (I have both the physical CD and a .bin/.cue image sheet).

I have tried to rip the CD audio and patch the game executable with _inmm unsuccessfully, so I'm at a loss at what to do anymore.

Any help will be most welcome.

Reply 1 of 12, by Davros

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do you have the sound in windows set to 5.1 or 7.1
did you run the config program ?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRkG3UkDsBw

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ps: do you have more than 1 cd drive

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Reply 2 of 12, by ZellSF

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First, due to mixer changes between XP and Vista this game actually mutes its own volume in the Windows mixer at start. And since the game is not alt-tab friendly, you can't fix this either. So you need a hotkey to unmute the volume.

I suggest using nircmd:
http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/nircmd.html
And assigning a hotkey to "nircmd.exe muteappvolume SnowWave.exe 0" in your favorite hotkey app. I recommend AutoHotkey personally but it's a bit complicated:
https://autohotkey.com/

I couldn't get CDDA to work perfectly, this way it plays at least:
Re: CD audio missing - my research [fixed!]

No idea how to get 3D audio working either.

Reply 3 of 12, by marianoryu

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Davros wrote:

do you have the sound in windows set to 5.1 or 7.1

The only option I have to set the sound to is Stereo.

Davros wrote:

did you run the config program ?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRkG3UkDsBw
LGR is actually a member here

Yes, the options I have are "No Sound" and "Primary sound driver". I have it set to the latter, but it gives me no choice to test it or touch anything.

I know this video, I posted a comment 3 weeks ago, but there's been no reply.

Davros wrote:

ps: do you have more than 1 cd drive

I have only one disc drive at E:, but I use Daemon Tools Lite so I can have more than one virtual drive.

ZellSF wrote:
First, due to mixer changes between XP and Vista this game actually mutes its own volume in the Windows mixer at start. And sinc […]
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First, due to mixer changes between XP and Vista this game actually mutes its own volume in the Windows mixer at start. And since the game is not alt-tab friendly, you can't fix this either. So you need a hotkey to unmute the volume.

I suggest using nircmd:
http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/nircmd.html
And assigning a hotkey to "nircmd.exe muteappvolume SnowWave.exe 0" in your favorite hotkey app. I recommend AutoHotkey personally but it's a bit complicated:
https://autohotkey.com/

I never did anything like this before, from the tutorial, I managed to put out this.

"1::
Run, nircmd.exe muteappvolume SnowWave.exe 0
Return"

I just tried it, but no results yet.

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I couldn't get CDDA to work perfectly, this way it plays at least:
Re: CD audio missing - my research [fixed!]

No idea how to get 3D audio working either.

I'm kinda lost on this part. I rip the audio tracks in .ogg format, make a Music folder, put them there, then the DLL files on the game folder?

Reply 4 of 12, by ZellSF

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Not sure about an easier hotkey program (there should be tons), but here's the AHK script I tested with

Loop
{
Sleep,1000
Run,nircmd.exe muteappvolume SnowWave.exe 0
}

Basically, unmute the app every second until you quit the script via the tray icon.

To get ogg-winmm working you need a folder named MUSIC in the game's directory with ogg files named track01.ogg, track02.ogg etc. You might have to start with track02.ogg (not sure) since the first track is a data track. Then you need to copy the dll files in that post to the game directory and rename winmm_nomciclose.dll to just winmm.dll.

It will not play CD audio until you get the audio unmuted though.

Reply 5 of 12, by marianoryu

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I made the new AHK script and copy pasted that code, ripped the game's soundtrack from the physical disc with FreeRip and put it in a Music folder in the game directory, copied the ogg-winmm files and renamed the winmm_nomiclose.dll file.

But nothing seems to have changed, so I'm evidently doing something wrong.

Reply 7 of 12, by ZellSF

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Davros wrote:
marianoryu wrote:

The only option I have to set the sound to is Stereo.

I doubt that since its a standard windows feature

Untrue, what sound output options you have depends on your sound card.

Anyway, OP: Try running the game with DxWnd:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/dxwnd/
It will crash at start, but you can open the volume mixer before closing it to get the volume status of the program. See what that says (and whether or not the script has any effect on it).

Reply 9 of 12, by marianoryu

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ZellSF wrote:
Untrue, what sound output options you have depends on your sound card. […]
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Davros wrote:
marianoryu wrote:

The only option I have to set the sound to is Stereo.

I doubt that since its a standard windows feature

Untrue, what sound output options you have depends on your sound card.

Anyway, OP: Try running the game with DxWnd:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/dxwnd/
It will crash at start, but you can open the volume mixer before closing it to get the volume status of the program. See what that says (and whether or not the script has any effect on it).

The program crashes, but the volume mixer shows nothing.

Reply 10 of 12, by marianoryu

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Update:

I managed to get the script to work, as I now have sound. The problem remains in the CD audio, however.

In the meantime, no big deal, I just made a repeat shuffle playlist on Winamp and just start it before starting the game.

Easier and better that way since music plays even in loading times. 😜

Reply 11 of 12, by Davros

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Did you test cd audio with the virtual drive disabled ? The game may be looking for the cd on the virtual drive
Can you play an audio cd in windows ?

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Reply 12 of 12, by marianoryu

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Davros wrote:

Did you test cd audio with the virtual drive disabled ? The game may be looking for the cd on the virtual drive
Can you play an audio cd in windows ?

Yes, but still it won't play.

Audio CD on Windows works fine too.

It's alright though - I got the sound working, and ripped CD audio works separately, that's good enough of a solution for me.