Civ IV and Leopard share your experiences

[vindaloovian]

I'll give it a try but sounds like there aren't any other options. I went through the civ iv directory and located the game sound files; I noticed that all the working sounds are mp3s, but it doesn't play the wavs. I can play the files in VLC or iTunes so there's nothing wrong with the sound files themselves....just my machine doesn't like to play them when the game is running

 

[vindaloovian]

Update on that last post....I thought I'd test the theory by replacing a wav file with an mp3 and see if it plays. I replaced the "RevolutionStart.wav" file with "RevolutionStart.mp3"....which happened to be a sound bite from Darth Vader. I loaded a game, changed a civic and hit revolution.....then sure enough I heard the dark lord of the sith say 'your powers are weak old man.'

Again, probably won't help me solve my problem but funny enough to share

 

[AlanH]

Yes, now you mention it, I seem to recall that Aspyr had to convert the .wav files to mp3. Have you tried updating to version 1.74 yet?

Which sounds are not playing? Maybe they have been converted in the later version?

PS. I have the latest versions of all of the Civ4 packs, and none of them have an mp3 for RevolutionStart. So either the newer version has a .wav player built in, or it will not work in 1.74 either.

 

[vindaloovian]

I haven't tried updating to v1.74 yet...but I tried converting all the wavs to mp3s. It didn't take that long since most of the files were small, and iTunes was able to convert the lot in a matter of minutes. First I put the mp3s in the relevant directories with the wavs, but no difference. Then I took the wavs out and left just the mp3s and I started to get some (but not all) sound effects.

Now when I capture a city I hear the 'panic' sounds, and if I raze the city I get that sound effect as well. I get the revolution noises and I hear the clicks of various buttons (selecting a unit for example) but I don't get any of the voice responses when you click on a unit, nor do I get the sounds of battle or pillaging.

Two other quirks I noticed...

Firstly I couldn't update the ambient sound folder with mp3s as it caused the game to crash. I could hear the sounds of trees etc all the time on top of the music regardless of the zoom/view level, but when I opened a city screen the music would stop and I could hear city sounds (which previously didn't work). None the less it would cause the game to crash within a few minutes so I had to revert to the wavs.

The second quirk was that the 'resources and improvements' folder under civ iv/assets/sounds/ contained a typo ('resouces') and that typo was hardcoded into the game. I thought I must've accidentally deleted the 'r' but when I corrected the folder name I got a long bunch of error messages in the game about files not being found!

I'm not hopeful that v1.74 will fix the problem, but I'm hoping I might have more luck with snow leopard.

 

[FizFashizzle]

Same problem I've had.

Trees flicker, screen flashes black in between turns.

2.5 intel quad core i5, intel HD Graphics 4k