HLDJ starts, but sounds don't play.

[Al]

About a week ago, my HLDJ was working fine, and the music would play. 2 days ago though, HLDJ just stopped playing music. It can start up the game I select, and the music directory is successfully brought up when I type "la" into the console, but when I push the key that I bound to play music, it doesn't play the music, and the icon that shows that I'm talking isn't brought up. I tried changing the bound key to the same effect. Any help would be appreciated.

[Renegade]

1) What game is this for?
2) After loading a file, what is displayed in the console?
3) After loading a file, check the parent directory of the game directory for the file "voice_input.wav", does it exist?
4) make sure voice is enabled for you game "voice_enable 1", "voicemod_enable 1"
5) Does your mic work?

[Al]

1) Team Fortress 2, tried the same with Day of Defeat with the same effect.
2) Host_WriteConfiguration: Wrote cfg/hldj_selc.cfg
Loading : My selected sound
3) The File exists in my directory.
4) Enabled, no sounds still.
5) Didn't have a mic before and it was working then, have not made any changes for the past few weeks.

[Renegade]

If the file exists (#3), try entering the following into console:

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"voice_inputfromfile 1; voice_loopback 1; voice_forcemicrecord 0; voice_modenable 1; voice_enable 1; +voicerecord" 

These are the most basic of commands to get the file to start playing. If even this doesn't work, and you're sure "voice_input.wav" is in the correct directory (i.e. for TF2, "SteamApps\account\team fortress 2"), then there is a larger problem at hand.

[Al]

Might have just found it, went though reading the giant wall of text in console and found this:

Unable to initialize DirectSoundCapture.

Would you happen to know a way to fix this? I don't remember messing around with any options before this happened.

[Renegade]

It's a common problem with Vista, are you using Vista? I believe the trick is to plug in a mic at least once, to initialize the drivers or some such. There are similar topics on these or the old forums (I'm not sure if solved or not), or try some google search hits: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Un ... gle+Search

[Al]

Yeah, this computer's got Vista, and I just got it working by plugging in a mic. Seems to be running smooth now. Thanks for the help.