freelancer sound issues
 

Hi.

Does any1 know how to get round problems with the sound not always playing in this game?

I have latest drivers and all that. Turned off hardware acceleration, turned off 3d sound!

I have creative 5.1 digital sound card, gefore 4 mx440 grafix, 2.1 athlon xp etc etc.

I have tried all the troubleshooting, but to no avail!

This is a problem with an installed mp3 codec. If you installed the Nimo codec pack, uninstall it. If you want to reinstall it and avoid problems, uncheck the "Fraunhofer MPEG-Layer 3" codec under Audio/Directshow. Then run WMFDIST.exe under the "\REDIST" directory on your game cd, it will install a better codec.

cant remember ever downloading nimo codec.

But not 100% sure werre i have to look to see!

I was checking under control panel; system; device manager; audio.

It shows:
ima adpcm audio codec
microsoft adpcm audio codec
microsoft ccitt g.711 audio codec
microsoft gsm 6.10 audio codec
dsp group truespeech(tm) audio codec
msg723.acm
sipro lab telecom audio codec
indeo audio software
windows media audio
mpeg layer-3 pro audio codec
microsoft pcm converter
voxware compression toolkit

It usually is that Nimo codec pack, but there are other ways to get a bad mp3 encoder. In that case, go to your Windows directory, e.g. "C:\Windows\", then to the "System32" subdirectory under your Windows directory. Delete the "l3codecp.acm" and "l3codeca.acm" files, then install WMFDist.exe and see if it helps.

A most unusual and rare game backup issue, no doubt.