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Went through a clean install & get the music, but the "sounds" folder for events are silent. Each individual sound plays OK on my system and windows "event" sound as they should, just no Paradox "events". Audio setting for events is set to max in game.
Any ideas ?
 
When you say "each individual sound plays OK", do you mean when manually run outside the game? If so the problem is almost certainly the sound card driver or a bad codec. Check out your installed codecs with Sherlock or some other suitable tool, generally installing the k-lite codec pack resolves such issues.
 
I've got a GSpot report, what am I looking for ?
I'm very very leery of throwing a general purpose codec pack at this new install, I've got heavy duty audio & video apps that will be loaded next, but I would like to play VV.
Windows Media 9 captured about every filetype when it installed, that's what plays the individual sounds OK.

GSpot will also play both files
testing the "music" romeisthelight shows a MPEG-1 Layer 3 audio codec with 192kbps 2ch CBR 44100H
plays through the quartz.dll (mpeg1 stream splitter), the l3codecx.ax (mpeg layer3 decoder), and the quartz.dll (default directsounddevice)
testing the "sound" armymove shows PCM audio 706kbps 1ch 44100H requiring no codec
plays through the quartz.dll (wave parser) and the quartz.dll (default directsounddevice)
VV was installed after a basic XP install, so it should have been overwriting any general purpose PCM codecs (unless DirectX updates overrode the VV install at the end ??).

DirectX sound testing plays all sounds at all acceleration settings (the 16k mono file is distorted)
Using ctadu2k.sys driver (not WHQL, but the latest available for the card)
 
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To be honest I don't know, I've always recommended what I wrote above and it usually works. That said, the more common problem is that no sound plays at all, or havign sound enabled crashes the game.

I would have to guess this issue is triggered by your unusual sound setup, as we don't have others reporting it. But if you do serious audio work you're way ahead of me.

Here's one case similar to yours but I doubt the cause is the same:
http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/showthread.php?451912-I-m-Having-a-Strange-Sound-Problem

This one was the opposite issue, where he heard sound but no music
http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/showthread.php?486268-No-music
He ended up using K-lite to disable a bunch of codecs and that fixed the issue. He could then have re-enabled them one by one to see which actually caused his problem but it doesn't seem like he bothered.
 
I seem to have found a work-around.
If I open up Gspot and leave it open, then launch VV the sound events are present.
It seems they work, then they are distorted for a short period, then magically work for an extended period (distortion never resurfaced before exit).
This was just a single test, so no idea whether it's repeatable.
Not very elegant, but at least it works.
 
Weird, but I guess it confirms 1/ it's an issue in your system only and 2/ it's something to do with the codecs.
 
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