no sound in hydrophone- running trigger maru for 1.4

[Xraybroadcasterfromvenus]

First of all, warm and humble greetings! I've been roaming these forums for a long time now, and my hat off to a fantastic community and excellent mods! Truly some amazing work here! Alas- I need a hand with something, hence me being here now.

Having enjoyed vanilla 1.4 for a long time now, I've recently started dabbling in the more complete mods out there. It seems Trigger Maru is what I'm looking for (RFB is equally impressive but as far as I can tell it doesn't fix the AI or campaign like TM does, correct me if I'm wrong)

Alas- I can't seem to get the U-boat expansion and 1.5 patch and refuse to pay AGAIN for the original+expansion on the steam version, so I'm somewhat limited to the old, outdated mods.



So I've bumped into a problem I could use a hand with.

I'm running Trigger Maru version for 1.4, and I regularly notice that my hydrophones do NOT give any sound from ships that should be making a lot of noise. My hydrophone crew can detect said ships without problem, I can tell 'm to track it, I just cannot take over manually. I would point the hydrophones at the exact heading of said ship, and there'd be no sound, and even the green light doesn't light up. I can, however, ping them. If I zip the floating camera over to the ship, it is in fact there and it IS making noise, both above and under water.

Yes, I am aware Trigger Maru changes the hydrophones- as far as I can tell they only seem to work properly when submerged. I am indeed submerged, seas are calm.

I even managed to recreate the problem instantly- just load up the first toturial for navigation. The little american torpedo boat zipping around has this problem. You might need to move arounda bit first though as the closest one happens to be in line with some merchants.



This has started to bug me quite a bit. I mean, surely I can't trust my crew to do my spotting, right? <grin> Any advice?
I found posts of similar problems, but no solutions. It seems to have something to do with missing sound files in TM-O, and often the newly added ships are mentioned here, but I'm getting it with existing ones too.

I'm assuming this has been fixed in future releases for the 1.5 version, but I'd rather not spend a lot of money on an expansion I don't really want. (not too interested in the german subs)

Would there be a way to sort this out for my outdated 1.4 TM version, or should I start bidding on Ebay to get the proper patch? <grin>

Thanks in advance!