No sound coming from game at all

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Gavin
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No sound coming from game at all

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(Win 7 Pro). No sound or music at all, I had sound for a little while when I downloaded it but now none at all.
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Re: No sound coming from game at all

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An observation- it doesn't matter what version I'm using, but if I rename the .exe file the sound will start working again but only for a short while.
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Re: No sound coming from game at all

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Hi Gavin,

this sounds very strange to me... Are you able to reproduce this issue on a different Windows 7 installation/machine, or is this problem specific to one single machine?
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Sounds like a mis-interaction with some sort of antivirus or other sort of system "protection" software.

And/or some sort of VIRUS itself.

Scan the system (can't say with what, haven't owned a Windows system in years).

Try disabling the various crutches, splints and wheelchairs (might be a good idea to turn off any sort of networking while doing such tests)...
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Re: No sound coming from game at all

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It seems to be unique to my computer. There are no problems if I run R&D within a virtual machine.

At the moment the sound works as long as the filename is anything other than the original filename.

I am using Avast anti-virus, a recent scan found no viruses.
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Very strange... Sounds like the filename of the binary triggers some specific behaviour regarding sound, but I have no idea at all what might have caused this... :-o
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Can you disable Avast for long enough to test that way?
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