[Genbe89]

The other day while I was playing my game, my computer did some updating and restarted while I was playing my game, then when I put it back on and turned the game back on, there was no sound at all, I went to the hardware settings, and it sound control was switched off with this red thing over it and I can't switch it back on, looks like this

http://genbe89.deviantart.com/art/IL-2-help-140402887

Please, how do I fix it ?

[Prairie_Falcon]

Hello Genbe89,

I had a similar problem in the past, and found the problem to be a changed entry in the conf.ini file. I'm not sure how or why the problem occured, but the fix was easy. Look in the main game directory and open the conf.ini file. Within the conf.ini file, look in the "[sound]" section. The first entry there should be SoundUse. Make sure that the SoundUse entry is "SoundUse=1" (not SoundUse=0).

It should look like this:

[sound]
SoundUse=1
SoundEngine=1
Speakers=1
Placement=0
SoundFlags.reversestereo=0
RadioFlags.Enabled=1
RadioEngine=2
MusicVolume=5
...

I hope this helps.

Prairie_Falcon

[Genbe89]

[sound]
SoundUse=1
SoundEngine=1
Speakers=1
Placement=0
SoundFlags.reversestereo=0
RadioFlags.Enabled=1
RadioEngine=2
MusicVolume=8
ObjectVolume=14
MusState.takeoff=1
MusState.inflight=1
MusState.crash=1
MusFlags.play=1
MasterVolume=14
Attenuation=7
SoundMode=1
SamplingRate=2
NumChannels=2
SoundExt.occlusions=0
SoundFlags.hardware=1
SoundFlags.streams=1
SoundFlags.duplex=1
SoundExt.acoustics=0
SoundExt.volumefx=0
SoundFlags.voicemgr=0
SoundFlags.static=1

Thats what my sound config looks like, the only one that was at zero was Speakers, but I just changed it to one, then when I put the game back one, the sound was still off and the switch is still locked with that red thing.

[Aviar]

Open your IL-2 Setup application and click on the Sound tab. Look in the 'Settings:' window and make sure you don't have 'No sound' selected.

Aviar

[Genbe89]

In setup under the sound tab, its set on custom.. Should I change it too something else ? Speaker type is on default. playback channel is 16, and sampling rate is 44100

[Genbe89]

I don;t know what I did, but the Sound has returned to my game now, Thanks to all for their advice.