How do you extract the sounds from the fpk files?

[AmiralA]

Sorry if this has already been answered/explained, but I've looked everywhere in the forum for this answer...

I'm not looking to mod anything, I just want to hear (and save) the sound files (especially the little music files that play for each city state). I believe these files are in the SoundData.fpk file, located in the resource/common/ folder, but I may be mistaken.

I tried the SDK, but to no avail. Nexus seems stuck in a "path not found" error loop (and I have no idea how to change its path once it's set).

Thanks for any help....


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[Galacticat42]

Using Nexus, you can go to the right most tab, then click on Script Browser.

There, click extract PAK.

 

[kamikazehigh]

I'm having the same problem.

I couldn't figure out what nexus was asking for, so I tried both the civ v folder and then the sdk folder, the second one worked and nexus started, but the script to extract the fpak files doesn't do anything, and I can't change the directory, even when uninstalling / reinstalling. I just keep getting "Error establishing asset paths." with no way to change the path.

The civ iv fpak extractor doesn't work for civ v either.

 

[AmiralA]

OK, so here's what I did:

I tried to find a Nexus ini file somewhere (anywhere), to hopefully edit the right path in it (I had entered a non-existent path called "assets\assets"). That went nowhere.

So I turned the problem around: I created a NEW path on my hdd, corresponding to the wrong one ("assets\assets"), and I copied the fpk files there. Then I ran the Script Browser (thanks Civ Fuehrer!), and voilà, I finally extracted the sound files!

 

[CrazyAce]

Point it to:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common\sid meier's civilization v\Assets

It worked for me no errors.

 

[Joschka]

Thanks for the tips, after creating the directories Nexus was referring to I could start extracting!

 

[bwilborn]

OK, so here's what I did:

I tried to find a Nexus ini file somewhere (anywhere), to hopefully edit the right path in it (I had entered a non-existent path called "assets\assets"). That went nowhere.

You can fix this with regedit:

1.) Open regedit.

2.) Navigate to Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Firaxis\Tools

3.) Find the key "ToolAssetPath", right click on the key name and click Modify.

4.) Shorten the path name to "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\sid meier's civilization v"

That should fix the issue for you.

 

[AmiralA]

That should fix the issue for you.

Thanks, bwilborn! I would never have dared touch regedit, but now I see the error of my ways.