Hi everyone. I bought Stealth Inc. 2 on GOG a few days ago. The installation worked out fine but issues started when I tried to launch the game. It loads up, shows the Curve logo screen and then nothing happens at all.

During the logo screen, I assume that some kind of sound output is supposed to be played. Instead of that I mainly hear some kind of noise. I am not sure if that is related to the issue I have. So far, I tried to use Windows XP SP3 and Windows 98 compatibility modes but neither of them showed a better result.

Is this issue known in context with Stealth Inc. 2?


Edit:
For anyone having similar issues, there is some news from the Steam forums. There, the same issue is currently discussed (http://steamcommunity.com/app/329380/discussions/0/613956964591869191/). It seems the problems are related to certain soundcards. Computers with additional PCIe soundcards from Creative, specifically Soundblaster X-Fi cards, seem to cause the problems.

So far, the only solution seems to be to deactivate the soundcard and use a different sound output instead (i. e. sound output via HDMI or via internal soundcards). I hope nonetheless, that a solution not involving using a different soundcard is found soon.

By coincidence it seems I found a solution! I googled for other cases of games not working on a Creative X-Fi and similar cards. In many cases, this was related to improperly installed OpenAL libraries. Stealth Inc 2 ships with an OpenAL installer. You can find it in the "__redist" subfolder of the game after you installed it.

Now comes the funny bit: installing the libraries is not enough! Stealth Inc 2 need the OpenAL libraries directly in the game's main installation folder. So what you need to do is to search for "openal32.dll" on your computer. Typically, the file is found in your Windows system folder. Just copy it over into your game's installation folder and Stealth Inc 2 should start up just fine.