Armor Foley Sounds.

Hi there,
I'm not hearing the Armor Foley sounds that were added in the September 2006 update anymore. Which weird because I used to hear them, and I loved them. Right now I hear the standard sound that was there since day 1 (yes I've been around that long ) which is rather odd.
I know they have worked for me (on the heavy armor professions -> Warrior and Paragon) before. But after reinstalling the game (I had a major virus on my comp a few weeks back) they were gone.
I find all this rather odd, I checked on my friend's computer and his sounds are fine. And before you ask: Yes, I was playing on a heavy armor profession when I missed them.

Any ideas?

It might be a problem with the gw.dat file and a reinstall would be the best option; however I know this is a daunting task and should be taken as a last resort.

Have you made sure that your Sound settings are ok? Try moving all the sliders to max and turning your speakers a bit louder. Maybe there are other sounds covering it?

Yes the sound settings are all maxed out. I'm not using EAX though, I only have 2 speakers... but that shouldn't be the problem...
And there are no sounds covering it, I was messing around with the sliders and maxed out the volume to make sure of that.

I'm not entirely sure what "armor foley" sounds are.

That said, I may have a few guesses why a sound effect might vanish. For one, what sound hardware are you using? Were you using EAX when you used to hear them? Is there any chance you've recently installed Windows Vista?

Also check your Sound control panels and drivers and such and make sure that you're not set to 5.1 or 7.1 audio somewhere... if you are and you only have stereo speakers, it will be playing some of the sounds through speakers that don't exist.

The "foley" sound effect indicates the type of armor the character is wearing. Metal armor produces a low clanking noise, while cloth armor produces a rustling and jingling noise.

Right now I'm using the sound drivers that came with my motherboard (It's an onboard sound card) from Gigabyte (Audio Controller: nVidia (0059)). But thing is... nothing has changed hardware-wise or software-wise. The only thing that has changed are the sound boxes. (2 instead of 5.1). Thus I can not use EAX, but I don't believe that is the reason why I don't hear them. If it is... it would stink.