Issue with game sound

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Hello!
I'm having an issue with the Die More Edition on Steam: The game doesn't seem to like my Sound Card and sounds like this:
http://www.catboxbeta.com/files/other/TeleglitchSound.mp3
WARNING! Take off your headphones if you have them and/or lower the volume.
It's a screeching mess; I checked some gameplay on Youtube and I don't think it's supposed to sound like that. (It's the start of the game, and after that a bit during the first level).

My specs:
Windows XP Professional SP3 (if you tell me to get 7 I'll hate you forever)
2 GB RAM
Core i5@2.67GHz
Trust 5.1 External Sorround Card ( http://trust.com/products/product.aspx?artnr=14134)
Nvidia GeForce GTS 450

This is the first time something like this happened with any game so I doubt it's a failure in the sound card itself
I have the latest drivers on my sound card but not on my graphics card (one version behind).
I have tried re-downloading the game and I have "verified the integrity of the cache files".

In stderr.txt the only thing that stood out was:

[...]
LOADING:"sfx/vastased/luukere_l88b2.wav"...OK
LOADING:"sfx/vastased/luukere_l88b3.wav"...OK
Connecting to steam...OK
ERROR:cannot read progress file 0! Resetting.
ERROR:cannot read progress file 1! Resetting.
ERROR:cannot read progress file 2! Resetting.
ERROR:cannot read progress file 3! Resetting.
[...]

But this seem to just be the save files.

Apart of that everything on the list was appended with "OK".

I went through the .ogg and the .mp3 files and none of them sound like they do in game.

 

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It's a problem with XP and fancy sound cards.
A workaround is to disable sound hardware acceleration from dxdiag.

 

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I just bought this game and have this issue too. I'm using xp and have a x-fi sound card. I'm glad there is a workaround but would really like to see it fixed. It was a painful way to start the game since I was using earphones.

 

[Alistan]

I just bought this game and have this issue too. I'm using xp and have a x-fi sound card. I'm glad there is a workaround but would really like to see it fixed. It was a painful way to start the game since I was using earphones.

Hi, I had a similar problem as desribed here:
http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum...und-issues&p=15841261&viewfull=1#post15841261

Try to delete OpenAL32.dll in your game's folder (backup first!). Since you have X-Fi card as well there is a high chance that OpenAL32.dll is already installed in your system. System version works fine for me.