Well, when you reported that Volume Mixer wasn't showing a separate column
for the game, that, to me, indicates a sound driver problem, or that it lost
it's configuration. Try right-clicking the Volume icon, and choose Playback
Devices. Double-click the Device in the window that pops up. On the
Enhancements tab, put a check next to "Disable all sound effects", then
click Apply. On the Advanced tab, click on Restore Defaults, and make sure
both check-boxes, under Exclusive Mode, do have a check mark. (Apply, OK).
What country do you live in? Is VGN-FZ11Z the complete name for your Vaio
model? In Device Manager, under "Sound, video and game controllers", what
is the name of your sound device?
"AWAC" <AWAC@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:964E9911-5C97-4533-82A4-920B086027E2@microsoft.com...
> Well, turning off games, hard switch off, switch on, turn on games again
> didn't work. I am stuck!
>
> "AWAC" wrote:
>
>> Many thanks for your reply. However, the volume for the game (or indeed
>> any
>> of the pre-loaded games) is not listed separately when I have any of them
>> running. What is shown in the Volume Mixer is Device (speaker and
>> headphones)
>> plus another one for Windows Applications. They are both set to 100%
>> volume
>> and neither is muted.
>>
>> i am now trying the following - turn off games, switch off laptop
>> (coMplete
>> shutdown and not just restart). When it boots up again, i will turn on
>> the
>> games again and hope that they instal correctly (i.e. complete with
>> sound!).
>> I will post he result (fingers crossed!).
>>
>> "dean-dean" wrote:
>>
>> > You might check this. When playing Mahjong, for example, right-click
>> > the
>> > Volume icon in the notification area, and choose Open Volume Mixer.
>> > The
>> > game will be listed with its own volume control. Is it muted, or
>> > turned all
>> > the way down?
>> >
>> > "AWAC" <AWAC@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> > news:4B975F9C-180E-4AC9-B8F0-B4258FC2D07C@microsoft.com...
>> > > The sound on all the Vista (Home Premium) pre-loaded games worked.
>> > > Now
>> > > although the games work, i cannot get the sound to work. I have one
>> > > other
>> > > game loaded into the standard Vista games folder - Rush For Berlin -
>> > > and
>> > > that
>> > > works perfectly. I have tried disabling the sound to each pre-loaded
>> > > game,
>> > > saving and restarting the computer (Sony Viao VGN-FZ11Z which is 3
>> > > weeks
>> > > old!) to no avail.
>> > >
>> > > All other sounds work pefectly (e.g. music at start up, bleeps and
>> > > stuff,
>> > > etc) and I have no problems with sound via DVDs.
>> > >
>> > > Very puzzling - but how can I get the sounds back? Can anyone help
>> > > please.
>> >
>> >