Sound and UI Bugs

[rstil2]

I know I can't be the only person experiencing music and audio issues with the game. I have absolutely no music or sound in game, making it unplayable. I can play all other games with sound just fine. Just to test things out, I uninstalled and reinstalled the game 3 times and verified the files 3 times. I also just fired up FoG II, FoG II: Empires and FoG Medieval and the music/sound all work great in those games. Now I fire up Kingdoms. Dead. Nothing. I have 200 games and they all have sound, just not this one.

The main menu buttons are cut off on the bottom of the screen. There are other UI problems. Really amateur stuff. I own all three of the FoG games and every SINGLE piece of DLC , so I have a right to complain. This is a day one mess. 36 hours later and I STILL CAN'T PLAY THIS GAME. NOT A HAPPY CUSTOMER HERE. I know Slitherine is a good company, but someone dropped on the ball on quality testing on this game and I don't believe the steam positive reviews. This game has major bugs that warrant real criticism by the gaming media here. Where are they?

[rstil2]

Problems are shown here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfhkNL6Yamw

[pipfromslitherine]

Sorry for your troubles, though a lack of sound - while clearly an annoyance - hardly makes the game "unplayable".

It uses the same sound engine as FoG:M, although it is running in x64 rather than x86, so it is certainly odd that you are having this issue.

Can you please post your system specs, ideally using the dxdiag tool.

Cheers

Pip

[pipfromslitherine]

P.S.The main menu buttons are placed in that way by design, they are not cut off because of any technical error.

None of the hundreds of beta testers came across this issue in the 3 months of beta.

Cheers

Pip

[pipfromslitherine]

P.P.S

If you an also post the contents of your error.log file (Documents/My Games/EmpiresKingdoms) that would also be very useful.

Cheers

Pip

[rstil2]

They created a custom EXE for me to try to see if it resolved the issue and it did. I am told it will be in a future patch?

[Pocus]

Yes it should be included as a norm in all EXEs for the next patch. Until then, you are the only one having it!