Am I the only one with no audio on Banished? I'm on a new Win 7 laptop ... every other game and application runs totally fine, but I don't get any sound when I play Banished. The game plays fine, looks great ... I was able to build up to a population of about 50, but there's no audio. I'm new to the Windows platform, so maybe I'm missing something really obvious? Thanks in advance for any help.

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EDIT:
This might help others who experience the same problem:

http://www.shiningrocksoftware.com/forum/discussion/3/known-issues

Thanks for posting what you found. The game runs perfectly on my desktop, but had no audio when I tried running it on a new laptop. Downloading the DirectX redistributable now.

same thing for me, using windows 8 on a laptop and not a sound in sight (hear?!). what's even wierder is that even though my boyfriend has got the same computor model as i do, when he installed the game (downloaded the same file, same size, and installed it after me) the audio worked just fine for him. i have tried to un- and reinstall, restart the computor and everything else i could come to thing about but it just wont work for me. :(

Thanks, OP. This approach worked for me even with running Banished on the Mac using Wine.

I purchased the game today. I did had audio but after a while playing the first tutorial the sound started crackling and finally crashed the game. When I tried relaunching it it went into a black screen.
Downloading and installing the DirectX redistributable mentioned above solved all problems for me.
Thanks.

I downloaded this DirectX re distributable. than 'ran' it. I was then asked where I wanted the 'files' extracted to. I put them in the DOWNLOAD folder...What I got was about 30+ 'file capinets' (.cab files ) in the download folder. All of these seem to be ZIPPED/COMPRESSED files as well...

What do I do with all this??? Where do I extract and install...which ones to I extract...???

W T F...???

Run DXSETUP.exe.