[Kleiner]

So, a few days ago my FFXI has lost all sound. I run windower, but even when using normal POL, there is no sound. I'm using Win7, also. I cant think of how to fix it, short of reinstalling, which I wanna avoid. also, windower's "enable sound" is selected in the options.

[Sunrider]

I am experiencing something similar, however, I've only lost sound effects (footsteps, magic/abilities, button presses, etc.), and only after I bumped up background resolution to max (2048X2048). Also running Windows 7 (32 bit).

It was suggested that my graphics card can't handle it, but it's boggling that a 9800 GTX+ should be unable to support sound effects without losing anything else.

[IneptVagrant]

Make sure the "max sounds" setting it something appropriate, 24 or 32

[Kleiner]

FFXI and POL settings both have sound enabled, and FFXI's settings "max sound effects" is maxed out.

There's is absolutely no sound in my game, whatsoever :/

[Raist5150]

What soundcard are you using? And what interfaces are the sound and video cards using?

Just wondering if maybe you don't have a bus saturation issue. Your Video could have a maxed out pci latency timer, and the sound card is no longer getting a decent time slice, so it is clipping it off.

I ran into this with a Soundblaster Fatal1ty Pro XiFi PCI card. Left channel would drop out, and then I would here it clipping out additional sounds. Increasing default PCI latency to 96 in the BIOS and reducing FFXI sounds to 16 stopped a lot of it, but it still happened in Campaign and Besieged (which I do a lot). I upgraded to a PCI-E card and it is much better, but still only running 16 sounds in FFXI I think.

Raist

[Kleiner]

i dont think that's the issue. My sound is just running fro ma built in set on the Mobo, my Video is running through PCI-e. Even though FFXI/POL has no sound, no other application on my PC has any sound issues whatsoever.