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#1 Old 10th Oct 2021 at 6:13 PM
Default The Sims 1 has NO SOUND
Hello, I've installed Sims 1 base game from OldGamesDownload and it has no Sound in any part of the game, what could be causing this issue?
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Lab Assistant
#2 Old 11th Oct 2021 at 12:13 AM
Oh, good God! Saudações, @lelzito; Let us try and solve it jn the best fakeittilyoumakeit method..

1) Little to no effort solution: All of the versions released before the one that Hot Date is installed upon (a.k.a.: base game, Livin' Large and House Party) play their respective soundtracks straight from the CDs (from Hot Date onwards, all the game's beats are extracted to and played from the /Music/ folder we know so well, so one wouldn't need to insert the EP's CDs in order to hear the music in-game) — otherwise, the game is executed almost entirely muted, except for a few environmental/TV sounds, as they are properly installed to a particular folder within game's files, and operate independently. Well: that being said, be sure to run the game with the base game's CD inserted in your PC (even if, by that, it means plugging the base game's Virtual Drive in, in times when, for-some-reason, not all computers have CD drives...........)


2) Mid-effort solution: Crazy things happen in a world of timed obsolescence... Maybe your problem happens simply because your game is currently incapable of identifying where the SoundData and Music folder are!


Go to Windows' Registry Editor (Windows Logo Button + R > Type "regedit", then hit OK;

Amongst the myriads of cryptic folders that the Registry Editor has, seek for the one game's folder, commmmmmmmonly located under the following order: Computer \ HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SOFTWARE \ WOW6432Node \ Maxis \ The Sims
The "The Sims" folder contains a few editable textual elements, which, yes, they call strings. Take a look at how it shows on my potato bathtub via the image below, and note how those with C:\ addresses written on its Data tab — specially SIMS_SOUND and SIMS_MUSIC — are the ones that identify where on my C:\ Drive the game's sounds/songs can be found at, so the game knows where to reproduce them from.

The question is: Do your PC's SIMS_SOUND and SIMS_MUSIC string data contain the actual folders where your game's Sound and Music are?

By default (if you haven't set the CD's installer to extract The Sims in a custom folder of your choice), the sounds are located in Program Files (x86)\Maxis\The Sims\SoundData\, and the songs, obviously, are all played from the CD, whose address can be read as D:\, F:\... depending of which method/drive one uses to read the CD data


Soz if I overcomplicated it, haven't spoken English for a little while xxx


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#3 Old 11th Oct 2021 at 8:16 AM
Quote: Originally posted by LUCPIX
Oh, good God! Saudações, @lelzito; Let us try and solve it jn the best fakeittilyoumakeit method..

1) Little to no effort solution: All of the versions released before the one that Hot Date is installed upon (a.k.a.: base game, Livin' Large and House Party) play their respective soundtracks straight from the CDs (from Hot Date onwards, all the game's beats are extracted to and played from the /Music/ folder we know so well, so one wouldn't need to insert the EP's CDs in order to hear the music in-game) — otherwise, the game is executed almost entirely muted, except for a few environmental/TV sounds, as they are properly installed to a particular folder within game's files, and operate independently. Well: that being said, be sure to run the game with the base game's CD inserted in your PC (even if, by that, it means plugging the base game's Virtual Drive in, in times when, for-some-reason, not all computers have CD drives...........)


2) Mid-effort solution: Crazy things happen in a world of timed obsolescence... Maybe your problem happens simply because your game is currently incapable of identifying where the SoundData and Music folder are!


Go to Windows' Registry Editor (Windows Logo Button + R > Type "regedit", then hit OK;

Amongst the myriads of cryptic folders that the Registry Editor has, seek for the one game's folder, commmmmmmmonly located under the following order: Computer \ HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SOFTWARE \ WOW6432Node \ Maxis \ The Sims
The "The Sims" folder contains a few editable textual elements, which, yes, they call strings. Take a look at how it shows on my potato bathtub via the image below, and note how those with C:\ addresses written on its Data tab — specially SIMS_SOUND and SIMS_MUSIC — are the ones that identify where on my C:\ Drive the game's sounds/songs can be found at, so the game knows where to reproduce them from.

The question is: Do your PC's SIMS_SOUND and SIMS_MUSIC string data contain the actual folders where your game's Sound and Music are?

By default (if you haven't set the CD's installer to extract The Sims in a custom folder of your choice), the sounds are located in Program Files (x86)\Maxis\The Sims\SoundData\, and the songs, obviously, are all played from the CD, whose address can be read as D:\, F:\... depending of which method/drive one uses to read the CD data


Soz if I overcomplicated it, haven't spoken English for a little while xxx


Hey, the "Little to no effort solution" worked pretty well! Thank you so much, LUCPIX!
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#4 Old 11th Oct 2021 at 9:37 PM
It's always a pleasure, amigo


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