No weapon sounds?

[degauss 0]

just installed GR the other day and went through the training missions. At first i thought the lack of sound may be a silencer on the weapons, then got to the grenade launcher part, and when I heard no explosions from a grenade blowing up almost right next to me, I became a little concerned. I went through the entire first mission without any gunshot sounds. I hear the shells hitting the groun, all the footsteps, the brush when I walk through it all. But no weapon sounds

I read through all these forums and ran dxdiag, I've got v9.0c

I ran the directsound test and when I got to the Mono, 8-bit 22Khz from a hardware buffer, I didn't hear the sound.

I got this message in the "notes" window.

DirectSound test results: Failure at step 20 (User verification of hardware): HRESULT = 0x00000000 (error code)

I dunno if that means anything or not

I play Counter-strike, Doom3, WoW, SWG, DAoC, BF:1942 and DC and an array of other games and i've never had any problems with sound like this before.

If you need any other information, just lemme know. I hope someone can help me.