Oolite Bulletins

Is there some magic to getting voices to work? I've tried a few settings (default, English, Scottish, male/female) and never heard it utter a word. Tried with "halsis.oxp" and without any OXPs; nada. I'm using 1.74.2

edit: Yes. Yes there is some magic to it. It's called "opening yours eyes" and setting "Spoken messages" to "On". /facepalm.

It seems I still need the "-nosplash" option on the main PC otherwise it is very sluggish (Windows XPsp3 with an nVidia 7900 and Creative Labs X-Fi Music card) but Ubuntu 10.04 on an ancient Compaq Presario B1015 (it has a nVidia GPU too) runs sweet as a nut. No idea what "-nosplash" does, can't see any difference on the screen bar the initial splash.

There is also a big lag between some sound effects and the related action. e.g witchspace jump and station exit. Is that normal?

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With regards non-sync audio/visuals - for things like the 15s countdown - it takes (audibly) 15s - if for some reason your PC/Oolite gets busy during this activity then the presumed amount of time the visuals take drift away from the audio. Its annoying - and happens to me too (I've only got an Athlon XP 2800+ and a 6600GT)