Hi everyone. I apologise if this is in the wrong section.
Since earlier today, I'm experiencing a loss of every sound in the game (from menu music to flight sounds). I'm using IL-2 Sturmovik 1946 with BAT 3.4 Linebaker installed.
I've got a copy of the game (also with BAT 3.4 Linebaker) on an external HDD, and if I launch the game from there, the sound works fine, so the problem must be on the copy installed on my PC.
I've checked the "sound" file in the IL-2 folder (on the PC) and it gives me that:
-- new session --
num channels 16
cannot open file for reading
Cannot open audio file samples/Bk37l.wav
cannot open file for reading
Cannot open audio file samples/Bk37l.wav
Speaker config restored.
Audio finished.
In several years playing this game I've never experienced such a problem (altough I'm not very practical with configuration files and all this stuff). I've tried to check the conf.ini file in the PC folder and it seems to be fine (SoundUse=1). I also sobstituted the "samples" folder and the "conf.ini" file in the PC copy of the game with the ones from the HDD, to no effect.
(On a side note, when I launch the game from the HDD, during the initial loading it shows that the game is updated to BAT 3.4 Linebacker, as it actually is. On the PC however, even if the game is updated to BAT 3.4, it still shows as if it's updated to BAT 3.2 Angels High).
So... what should I do? It's pretty annoying with no sound whatsoever.