Missing sounds

[the_best_noob]

I seem to be missing quite a few of the WCS sounds all of a sudden. It started yesterday, I was not hearing tome sounds or sometimes vaga ult sounds. I noticed in console it failed to load many of these. Is there any way to fix this?7974

[ZERO]

Even if you have those files in the correct locations you can get this message randomly b/c the game is broken... :banghead:

[Passarelli]

Yeah, same thing has happened to me too. I wasn't sure if it was intended or not, lol. It's nice for beast teleport, but it is a little overpowered for humans.

[the_best_noob]

Nice to know it was just the game. I *think* I can survive without it but that comforting ring when I buy a tome missing is a bit irksome.

[ZERO]

It should not be broken all the time, just randomly b/c valve creates bugs but never fixes them.

[kionay]

99 total bugs in my code
99 total bugs
fix one bug
recompile my code
140 total bugs in my code

[What]

Recently I have lost all ultimate sounds, the recharged sound and whatever sounds comes with the actual actions. Just happened the other day, hasn't come back yet, get a slew of error messages in console though.

[Passarelli]

Zero, so you know, it is broken 100% of the time. At least teleport and ult recharge sounds are. I can deal with the teleport on beast, but human is pretty crazy. When I hear it, I can turn and pick them out pretty easy, but without the sound, you just have no clue : /

[the_best_noob]

Yeah. Human and beast are now obscenely overpowered, especially beast with the very long silent tele. If the vaga ult sound went missing, I'd probably stop playing

[What]

its not just tele sounds, lightning, invuln, ulti recharge sounds, all gone.

[the_best_noob]

Everyone seems to have their own set of sounds missing. However, most do not have ult ready, human/beast tele, chainlightning. Personally I am missing the Santa ult and most annoyingly, the rapscallion ult noise.

[Wolfenstinger]

I'm missing a number of sounds apparently... Just hopped on today. Don't know what happened or why it happened.

[CYBER]

I almost never hear any respawning sound alerting me that I'm respawning, except on santa.
just something to throw out there, people tell me that bloodmage and orc gives you a respawn sound the second u die, whereas i usually have to read chat to notice it...

Also missing rapscallion ulti,
huma/beast ulti is erratic, sometimes they don't proc the sound and the only thing u hear is getting shot at from behind out of the blue.
i sometimes don't hear shadow hunter invul but guess it by color change only,
and none of my ultimates make that "NOPE" buzz-alert when a lace is nearby and cant be activated, except for vagalion SOMETIMES...


Now here's the thing, and this is weird and i'm still trying to find a demo to prove it, but sometimes FOOTSTEPS are randomly going silent in the game, and no, it's not the "amulet of the cat", but i just get randomly killed from behind by a running flamepred or invis rapscallion (again, no ulti sound), and i hear no footsteps before i die, nor after i spec their view when they dnt have the cat.
What gives?

[Wolfenstinger]

I've been missing my "Ultimate is ready for use" sound. I don't hear other's ultimate readied sometimes.

Also as for footsteps.... I've heard Amulet of Cat users footsteps glitch to where I actually hear them instead for a second and then nothing?


I just went through all the races by myself on the test server that are missing sounds for ME and ME only at the moment.... and here's what I've found


Can't hear my Ultimate is Ready sound
Human Tele + Beast Tele = I can't hear these at all
I don't hear Santa's Nice List jingle anymore
I don't hear Santa's flying sound effect anymore


Attempted to move these files outta my STEAM folder and reinstall them via rejoining server, but no luck.

[the_best_noob]

What format are the sound files? I don't have access to my computer right now, but depending on the format, I may just make my own sounds

[What]

i would assume they are wav files. But you can always just do your own personal sound effects when you play, you know. (pew pew. BSHKOOOOM, etc.)

[CYBER]

so zero? do u think there's a way to fix this? i thought of deleting the local files, and disabling server download a bit, then reenable it hoping it would work...
but wolf seems to say that the solution doesnt work?

[ZERO]

if the files r in your local system and the error you get in console says it can not find them but they are physically there then it is an engine error. Likely created by the latest valve update. In other words valve broke sound effects from working correctly in game.

[ZERO]

I have some new ideas and will try to see if I can program some fault tolerance into the sounds. This may open the ability to allow for the sounds to recover if they were not preached for some reason.

Out of Undead, Human and Orc which one has this issue the most right now? I will try to apply a new method only to that race and see if it removes the problem only for that race. This way we will know if my method is able to fix it. I can then program a special native function which can then be tested and then if that works I can have a simple method to apply an update to all existing races with minimal code increase.

Assuming it does work and depending on the amount of error handling this could be a lot of code but I think it might be possible to get a client to recover from this error and still play the sound so that the client will not even know an error occurred. I will during the test make it say error in chat or something as to get some feedback with regard to the error.

[ZERO]

I think I found the issue. It is an old pure bug.

Try the following. Only play on WCS after restarting CS:S as in do not play on any server other than WCS first. If the error occurs when you have not yet played on any other servers besides WCS in your current session than it is not the normal Valve error.

For those effected please test and let me know.

[ZERO]

Also make sure you have cl_forcepreload 1

[ZERO]

Note to self: OnConfigsExecuted() could be solution if issue persists.

[Passarelli]

Zero, human is the easiest to test with, as the teleport sound is missing as well as the ult up sound so it is easily tested solo.

I tested it out, loaded CSS, put cl_forcepreload 1 into console and joined the WCS server and the sounds were still missing.

The sounds are in:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Counter-Strike Source\cstrike\download\sound\war3source

The error I get is:
Failed to load sound "war3source\levelupcaster.wav", file probably missing from disk/repository

Let me know if you need me to test anything else.

[ZERO]

When are you getting that error? I do not even know what that sound is for...

These are the sounds you claim are missing?: (if your missing these in reality let me know)

UltBlockSound = wcs/zero/ultblocked.wav
TeleFailedSound = wcs/zero/fuzz.wav
teleportSound = war3source/blinkarrival.wav

[Passarelli]

Lol Zero. I think it is primarily used for when you level up a race. It happens whenever you join the server and join a new race. Those look about right, though I think reincarnate is also missing the sound for orc. Beast still does it's roar when you reincarnate. I'll see if any others are missing though.

After testing:
Reincarnate works, however chain lighting doesn't.
Mask sound for undead doesn't work.

[CYBER]

Lol Zero. I think it is primarily used for when you level up a race. It happens whenever you join the server and join a new race. Those look about right, though I think reincarnate is also missing the sound for orc. Beast still does it's roar when you reincarnate. I'll see if any others are missing though.

After testing:
Reincarnate works, however chain lighting doesn't.
Mask sound for undead doesn't work.
Interestingly enough I heard a beast roar when I died once by an undead while I was strider or orc or vaga (only races I played in 2 weeks), so there is something rly weird with the sounds with me

[What]

Since the initial error is the sound when you join the game (select a race and that weird sound plays like you just leveled) perhaps there is a loading error with mod.

[CYBER]

Since the initial error is the sound when you join the game (select a race and that weird sound plays like you just leveled) perhaps there is a loading error with mod.
i wonder if the pipeline did any damage?

[ZERO]

It is now an issue on the valve mailing list as tf2 admins are bitching about it as well now.

The issue is client side as it only occurs to some people randomly. The listed solution is to delete the sound.cache file.

[Passarelli]

Thanks Zero, that fix worked! Whoo.

[Zackychuu]

I joined the server yesterday and found that some of my sounds have gone missing too...it's quite annoying.
I have to double check chat every time I buy a tome because without the sound I don't know if I bought one or not.
It's also quite unsettling that I can start flying as a santa without hearing the bell sounds...

I'm quite surprised no one has found a fix for this yet.
I'm assuming that we should just delete some files and let the server re-download them or something...but I have no idea where to look in my folder, or what files need to be removed.

[Wolfenstinger]

It is now an issue on the valve mailing list as tf2 admins are bitching about it as well now.

The issue is client side as it only occurs to some people randomly. The listed solution is to delete the sound.cache file.

That works. Was on this morning and I could actually HEAR things again.


GO into your CSS folder and in there should be a folder called sound
Go into that folder and delete the sound.cache file. Start up CSS and join WCS. If w/e sounds you couldn't hear before are now working, you have no more issues.

[Zackychuu]

That works. Was on this morning and I could actually HEAR things again.


GO into your CSS folder and in there should be a folder called sound
Go into that folder and delete the sound.cache file. Start up CSS and join WCS. If w/e sounds you couldn't hear before are now working, you have no more issues.
Must have skimmed over that earlier.
Working now, thanks :D

[Peppers]

Any other options for this? I deleted sound cache and reloaded css, still missing teleport sounds.

[What]

Any other options for this? I deleted sound cache and reloaded css, still missing teleport sounds.

Try it again? make sure you went to the right folder, say a little prayer. Its possible the error hit right away after you fixed it making it looked like it didn't work.

Also,

Have you tried unplugging it and plugging it back in?

[ZERO]

If only valve could stop breaking the game...