STICKY: Sound? Download the Multimedia

To download the multimedia, click on the + sign next to the Galactic Civilizations II listing in the games section of Stardock Central, then install the other three items.

I've downloaded the multimedia file but I still have no sound.

Sound skips frequently.

Sound skips frequently.

That usually hapens with slower Computers (cannot process information fast enough).

Though it could be a bug...

I have the multimedia, I have sound during the initial video, but the sound stopped after the first research completed.
On reloading the game (my flagship showed 4/0 moves left, which also happened in the Beta), the music was again OK until the first popup screen arrived (I met a new alien race)
Looking closely at the sound options, I then noticed that they were on 90, on a scale of 0 to 10000. Increasing them to the halfway mark worked fine.

Can it be that the slider was reset to 90 ? I had NOT touched it before...
One more thing, the maximum value of 10000 of the sound sliders does not fit the box, and is displayed as (100..)

The game looks GREAT !

I also have no sound yet the multimedia was fully downloaded.

I think it may be because I had downloaded the multimedia component BEFORE the main program. (I also have no movies/tutorials, despite having them fully downloaded.) I'm going to try to uninstall + reinstall movies/tutorials/multimedia and see if that fixes it. Unfortunately, this means re-downloading all of those components.

If I'm right, this is a pretty crappy bug.

got it all downloaded.

the music from the main screen (new game, load, option etcs) right when you start the game has some channel-issues for me. Only my left and somewhat my center speaker gets signals from the music, my right speaker remains completely silent. seems the channels in the music-file are kinda messed up. beside that all ingame sounds and music I noticed so far behaves as expected.

no major bug, but was kinda confused and thought the problem was on my speaker (using 5.1 dolby digital surround speakers) .

I have also been experiencing sound stuttering, and while my computer is by no means brand new, it certainly isn't ready for the scrapheap.

Athlon XP 2800+
1 GB PC2700
Ati Radeon 9800 Pro AGP
Asus A7N8X - E - Onboard Sound (Nforce 2)
Logitech Z-5500 5.1 Speakers

I've downloaded all media, tutorial and movie packs...still no sound on my end either.

Uninstalling and reinstalling multimedia (i.e. *completely redownloading* it) fixed the sound for me....

Me too...unistalled and then reinstalled the multimedia fixed it.

I played for abvout twelve hours with no multimedia pack and thought the missing sound was just a bug. Silly me, though it was kinda confusing because there was no reason for me to suspect that the multimedia was a separate download. Though seeing the size of it, I can see I have this to thank for getting to play after 30 minutes of unlocking instead of a few hours, so somewhat appreciated. One suggestion I have so far is for the sake of future players make sure there's an obvious note at some point that reminds them to download the sound, otherwise people might think GalCiv II is buggier than it is.

Same issue with Decay.ca.

Strange enough, I was playing the Beta with no probs at all .

IBM Thinkpad T41, 1GB,
Operating System : Windows XP Service Pack 1 - (2600.xpsp2.050301-1526)
Video Card : ATI MOBILITY RADEON 9000
Sound Card : SoundMAX Digital Audio
DirectX version : 4.09.00.0904

I have the same issue and reinstalling the multimedia package did not fix it.

As far as can recall the beta played just fine...
All the mp3 files are there, but other than the video scenes no sound. Is there a ini/xml to change to tell the programm that I did download the Multimedia package?


My System:
* Windows XP Prof. SP2 (Build 2600)
* Sound: Creative SB Audigy 2ZS
* If you need more specs just post it

I've got skipping/jumpy sound too. Starts right in w/ the intro and does it during the tutorials too. I've escaped out of both the intro and tutorials unable to take the pain. Its annoying me. I haven't played it cause of this. Haven't had any sound problems in the past, including recent games like civ4 and X3 reunion. Any ideas?
My rig :
XP 3000
radon 9800 pro 128
blaster x-fi extream
1 gig ram
win xp home

I've got skipping/jumpy sound too...

Same here, just got the game - skipping sound on the tutorial, specs :

XP 1800
512 mb ram
Sonic fury sound card
FX5200 vid

Me too (i.e get crackly noise during initial movie and when just listening to the music whilst navigating the menus before playing a game). I actually haven't even played it yet - like Citizen herocrafter, it bugs me enough to rectify it before I get involved with the game.
My system is also powerful enough (2GHz CPU, 1.5GB RAM, 9800 Pro 256MB) I do have all of the latest drivers and haven't had an audio problem with any game in years, nor any problems with any other game I play - this to me is simply a bug relating to the audio code, and unfortunately, after seeing the huge list of glitches in another sticky I'm not that surprised. That list really doesn't instill confidence in new players - after reading the issues, which all appear to be things I'm likely to find, I'm not left feeling too excited. Fingers crossed they'll get on top of them soon.

Following up from my previous post. After I noticed that my sound problems lessened when I set the sound hardware accelerator in dxdiag off I went ahead and reinstalled windows XP. It worked and now the sound is fine. It is alot of work, 18 critical updates just to get SP 2. 36 critical updates immediately follow. Then more yet. Not to forget drivers and the rest. But now the sound works, like the rest of my games.