No sound in Carmageddon 2

[BEENNath58]

The game has a launcher and 2 main executable files.

When running the games through the launcher the music doesn't work. Upon little inspection, using the native DSound or IndirectSound results in a 0x88780078 (DSERR_NODRIVER) error.

However if I put DSOAL, the error changes to 0x8007007e (UNKNOWN).

Since DSOAL is doing something, can it solve the problem?

[mirh]

I seem to understand that's 0x80070000 + ERROR_MOD_NOT_FOUND.
Can you check what dlls it tries to load?

[ghotik]

I put in Carmageddon 2 folder the DSOAL Win32 release ( dsound.dll + dsoal-aldrv.dll ) and I got in DirectSoundCreate(GUID=0) the error 0x80110474 (0x80070000 + ERROR_SET_POWER_STATE_VETOED).
Using instead the Win64 release I get 0x88780078(DSERR_NODRIVER), but since the game is a Win32 program probably the operation is wrong.
Same two error codes if I use the DSOAL+HRTF release.

What I find strange is that the launcher does not try to open a DirectSound session, nor (apparently) to query or set the sound system, but it breaks the sound system for its child processes.
Is the error ERROR_SET_POWER_STATE_VETOED more meaningful ???

[kcat]

0x80110474 is COMADMIN_E_REGDB_SYSTEMERR. The top bit indicates an error code as opposed to success/status code, the next top 15 bits indicates the "facility" (0x0011 = 17 = FACILITY_COMPLUS), and the bottom 16 bits is the facility-specific code. Which in this case maps to the aforementioned error.

Are you able to make a DSOAL trace log? You can use this batch file to help with that.

[BEENNath58]

All I get is

0dac:trace:dsound:DllMain Initializing library v0.9-fac7859 master
0dac:trace:dsound:load_openal load_openal Loaded dsoal-aldrv.dll
0dac:debug:dsound:DllMain (0x72020000, 3, 0x0)
5914:debug:dsound:DllMain (0x72020000, 2, 0x0)
40e8:debug:dsound:DllMain (0x72020000, 0, 0x1)

[mirh]

Are you sure you are using the right bit-ness? And check with procmon please for what may be searched but not found

[WinterSnowfall]

If this is about Carmageddon II: Carpocalypse Now, then it works just fine for me with DSOAL.