GZDOOM Ver. 2.2.0 no sound for certain items.

[Sloogie Doogie]

I'm having an issue... I play DOOM (ver. 1.2)  through GZDOOM (Ver. 2.2.0 64 bit) and everything works perfect except when I pick up a soul sphere. No sound effect at all. I am very confused because It always had sound in the past. I tried Zandronum and same issue. I even tried newer builds of GZDOOM. It used to have the sound effect and now nothing and I checked the sound settings and all that. Any help is appreciated. Thanx.

[Sloogie Doogie]

I did discover that the sound effect is working with Ultimate DOOM but not versions 1.1 and 1.2. 

Edited April 19, 2017 by crampedmisfit1990

[KVELLER]

I'm not sure about this, but maybe in earlier versions that specific sound had another name in the IWAD and therefore GZDoom can't find it.

[Sloogie Doogie]

That makes sense because I doubt that particular sound was absent in any release.

[Reisal]

Version 2.4.0 is available if you haven't tried that already.

[Sloogie Doogie]

Ok, Guys... after much trial and error and research...  I've solved the problem myself. Since GZDOOM was created mainly for Ultimate Doom(all sound effects work fine when launching Ultimate Doom wad) I assume the Soul Sphere sound effect just couldn't be found when playing Doom version 1.2 (better imo than Ultimate Doom for many reasons) and so I created a wad file with only the Soul Sphere sound effect and added it in my GZDOOM launcher and presto! It's now working perfectly. Case closed.

[scifista42]

Source ports tend to be made specifically to support IWADs of version 1.9, and may not work with IWADs of lower versions (especially lower than 1.666) at all.