Afrika Korps: SdKfz 10/4 - no sound

[Friedrich1250]

Hello, I installed "Afrika Korps", the Grand Campaigns 39 and 40 and the Update "Panzer Corps Wehrmacht v 1.11". The original game "Panzer Corps Wehrmacht" is not installed. I'm playing with german language.

When playing through the tutorials I noticed that one unit doesn't produce any sound: the "SdKfz 10/4". All other units seem to work fine, but this unit does not produce any sound at all.

[VPaulus]

Welcome.

Which tutorials?
Aren't you playing from an old save game?

[Friedrich1250]

I first installed "Afrika Korps", then the two Grand Campaigns and at last patch 1.11. (Win 7/64 bit) Then I started playing the tutorial campaign, because I had never played "Panzer Corps" before. I did not play any other scenarios yet.

The problem occured in the last two scenarios of the tutorial campaign (scenario 5 and 6) with the SdKfz 10/4: no driving sound, no sound while shooting. I can't say, if this problem occurs as well in the previous tutorial scenarios, because I didn't use the SdKfz 10/4 in these scenarios.

What exactly do you mean with "old save game"? I started with v1.11 - so I didn't use any save games of an older version of the game. But yes - I saved the game several times and used these save games. Maybe important: I never used the auto save games.

Thanks for trying to help me!

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Edit: I also tried the following: 1) Loading savegame (beginning of scenario 6, tutorial campaign), 2) Restart of scenario, 3) Deleting old savegame and saving again, 4) Loading new savegame
--> No change: SdKfz 10/4 still without sound

[VPaulus]

I was able to reproduce the issue.
I'll have to do more tests. I'll report back later.
Thanks.

[Friedrich1250]

Thank you for your efforts, VPaulus!

[VPaulus]

Friedrich, this is a bug. A minor one but nonetheless a bug.
So this will be fixed in the next patch. I think that the devs already know about this, but I will warn them just in case.
Some units were renamed and that's what is causing the absence of sounds with SdKfz 10/4.

You can download and unzip the file attached. You'll have to replace the "efx.pzdat" file in your "Panzer Corps\Graphics" folder with the one you unzipped.
This is not an official fix. That's only a workaround that I've made.
Remember to backup first the original file which you're going to replace.

[Friedrich1250]

Thanks again for your help! I'll try out your workaround. Your support is extraordinary!

BTW: This is the best game I've played for a long time. Great work!

[incoming9000]

I don't know about the SdKfz 10/4 but the SdKfz 251/1 including the SE SdKfz 251/1 don't have any sounds. I've tried the"efx.pzdat" file but it does nothing. I noticed it first in the Greece scenario for the 42 East campaign but it affects the Africa Korps too.

I'm on 1.11 version with PzCorps+AfrCorps plus all the extra campaigns 39 to 45 East, 42/43 and 44 West.