(almost) No sound when using launcher [Workaround Found]

[immense]

When I launch vanilla MC I have 100% working sound. When I use the Technic launcher I only hear animal sounds (no matter what pack I play). No digging noise, no GUI sounds etc..

I have been searching the forums for about an hour trying various things (such as F3+S to reset sounds & syncing up my assets folder with the vanilla install version) but have not been successful in solving the problem.

Can someone point me in the right direction?

[immense]

Here is my log if it helps: http://pastebin.com/pYc9q4Ni

[Nightreaver]

check your .technic/assets folder, tell the folders inside and the actual size

[Mavlock]

Same problem here.

Asset directory size is: 305kb

Contents: http://pastebin.com/8SwaZCrF

Having this issue on my Windows 8 and OSX box as well. Mojang launcher works fine, Technic has no sound.

[immense]

check your .technic/assets folder, tell the folders inside and the actual size

Here you go (I installed to a alternate directory to see if it helped, it did not)

[immense]

Damn this seems to be a rare issue.. No luck with a fix yet

[immense]

I have a hunch this issue is related to the LWJGL version being used. I downgraded the version however the technic launcher keeps upgrading it when I launch (even when I rename the files to match). I am guessing that the launcher uses MD5 to determine if the file has changed and if so, replaces it with the "correct" version.

Does anyone know how to prevent the Technic client from doing this?

[immense]

Ok this was an assets issue with sound files.. Either amazon is having trouble pushing them out to me or the launcher is derping.

Here is how to workaround:

1. Download http://www.mediafire.com/download/0zgbsno2gooreo3/MCAssets.rar

2. Add the contents of this rar file to your .technic\assets directory (directory names are sounds, sound, records, music, lang & icons).

This should work around the issue.. It's not perfect since I don't know what other sound files are missing but it will do for now..

[Nightreaver]

happen to me every time, cant figure out where it comes from, possibly Technic Launcher cause original MC one is working fine. (Win7 in general, on x84 and x64)

But thats was I wanted to show you :)

[immense]

happen to me every time, cant figure out where it comes from, possibly Technic Launcher cause original MC one is working fine. (Win7 in general, on x84 and x64)

But thats was I wanted to show you

Thanks! Your post & a subsequent error log message are what finally allowed me to "fix" this.

[AGearBeast]

the reason why there is no sound is because, when technic launcher installs the packs it replaces the .ogg files by turning them into folders. so i advise that you just delete the music, records sound and sounds and replace them with this "thanks to immense" http://www.mediafire.com/download/0zgbsno2gooreo3/MCAssets.rar

[king_butter_bold]

where do install the files

[AGearBeast]

where do install the files

oh yeah sorry, you go to the roaming folder (%appdata%) then go to technic>assets, and replace the files there

[Rixxan]

where? that folder of sounds doesn't exist on my system. I have tecnic>assets but what do I replace in that folder?

[Lathan Stanley]

OK, this is not a FIX you can apply yourself.... This needs to be updated with the launcher itself.

But its the reason why its broke (as far as I can tell)

Technic Launcher FORCES the 2.9.0 version of the Java Light Weight Game Loader (jlwgl.dll) and all its associated files....

It force overwrites it every time it launches the game. (I went to an extent to try to prevent overwrites, and if I got it not to overwrite it simply halted game launches and wouldn't start) It downloads and forces this 2.9.0 version to vanilla minecraft, all modpacks, tekkit, voltz, the big dig... everything.

2.9.0 was a junk version, it didn't work on a large handful of systems for the audio, its why we don't have working sounds!

Verify for yourself! Go download the real vanilla minecraft 1.7.4 from mojang, use their launcher, and then after it loads and audio DOES work, check the file versions of the jlwgl in the folders there, they are running 2.9.1

Can we PHUuuuuuLEEEEEeeeeeaaaase get the technic launcher to run 2.9.1 instead of 2.9.0 !!?!!?

it'll make all of us no-sound whiners really happy.

It changes absolutely nothing that might break the game as far as I know... However I do know that it fixes the audio.

[TwoTails]

OK, this is not a FIX you can apply yourself.... This needs to be updated with the launcher itself.

But its the reason why its broke (as far as I can tell)

Technic Launcher FORCES the 2.9.0 version of the Java Light Weight Game Loader (jlwgl.dll) and all its associated files....

It force overwrites it every time it launches the game. (I went to an extent to try to prevent overwrites, and if I got it not to overwrite it simply halted game launches and wouldn't start) It downloads and forces this 2.9.0 version to vanilla minecraft, all modpacks, tekkit, voltz, the big dig... everything.

2.9.0 was a junk version, it didn't work on a large handful of systems for the audio, its why we don't have working sounds!

Verify for yourself! Go download the real vanilla minecraft 1.7.4 from mojang, use their launcher, and then after it loads and audio DOES work, check the file versions of the jlwgl in the folders there, they are running 2.9.1

Can we PHUuuuuuLEEEEEeeeeeaaaase get the technic launcher to run 2.9.1 instead of 2.9.0 !!?!!?

it'll make all of us no-sound whiners really happy.

It changes absolutely nothing that might break the game as far as I know... However I do know that it fixes the audio.

"[06:00:53 INFO]: Client> 2014-01-05 06:00:53 [iNFO] [Minecraft-Client] LWJGL Version: 2.9.0"

right off the default client running unmodded 1.6.4

[TheHereAway]

Hey, made an account as I have the same problem, no sound at all when I try to play Moonquest, though I haven't tried the other packs.

I downloaded the file posted above but when I went into my assets folder there were not any sound files of any sort, just a couple called avatars and packs. I dropped the file in there anyways and it didn't work.

I read what Lathan posted above, did some digging around and found that in the cache folder, there is another called "org" which has a file called "lwjgl", sure enough the files within were at 2.9.0 as he said they were. I downloaded a file for a 2.9.1 lwjgl(found here: http://lwjgl.org/download.php ) and tried replacing them but when I loaded the game the files were reverted back to the original 2.9.0.

I don't know if this will be found helpful by anyone but I thought it was worth posting, I'm tired of Creepers silently creeping up from behind :/