Hi All,
I am going crazy with this. This related to not being able to hear any sound on my newest machine. It also crops up with multiple "You have selected an unusable voice capture device. Voice capture disabled" and "You have selected an unusable voice playback device. Voice playback disabled". The weird thing is that sometimes I go into the audio options and choose a different option like "Surround sound" or "EAS 3.0" and it will work the next time I restart the program and then after that it wont work again. Or it will play the intro movie with sound but when it gets to the menu the sound will just stop. I have uninstalled both steam and civ 4 BTS fropm the machine and reinstalled them both and still the same issue. I have searched the forums and google and have come up empty.
My other machine was able to run Civ 4 on a 64-bit OS no problem from Steam ( I purchased the complete version). Then my HDD crashed, I had it reloaded this time with Win 7 32-bit OS and there were also no issues...apart from being a 32-bit OS and not being able to use all 4GB of memory (never did try the 3GB fix), and I just received a new upgraded machine, installed only Civ 4 BTS from Steam and get bombarded with all those messages at the menu above. The game seems to play fine but there is no sound. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
I am going crazy with this. This related to not being able to hear any sound on my newest machine. It also crops up with multiple "You have selected an unusable voice capture device. Voice capture disabled" and "You have selected an unusable voice playback device. Voice playback disabled". The weird thing is that sometimes I go into the audio options and choose a different option like "Surround sound" or "EAS 3.0" and it will work the next time I restart the program and then after that it wont work again. Or it will play the intro movie with sound but when it gets to the menu the sound will just stop. I have uninstalled both steam and civ 4 BTS fropm the machine and reinstalled them both and still the same issue. I have searched the forums and google and have come up empty.
My other machine was able to run Civ 4 on a 64-bit OS no problem from Steam ( I purchased the complete version). Then my HDD crashed, I had it reloaded this time with Win 7 32-bit OS and there were also no issues...apart from being a 32-bit OS and not being able to use all 4GB of memory (never did try the 3GB fix), and I just received a new upgraded machine, installed only Civ 4 BTS from Steam and get bombarded with all those messages at the menu above. The game seems to play fine but there is no sound. Any help would be greatly appreciated.