F.e.a.r sound probls

[doohoodogg]

Man, i knew something would be wrong!! i just got FEAR after ive seen it at a friend of mine, and i went home, installed it, and when i doubled clicked the exe its stuck on a black screen, ive tried with different configurations and i manage to get it work by disabling the audio. But huuuge game bugs appear in game, straight from the beggining, wgen u come with that car u know, my AI jumps (yes jumps trough tha door) into that garbage container, and the flame from tha pistol is about 2 inches above the pipe, i mean that is because of the audio is disabled, i dont think so, besides that i need to know how can i make the audio to work, cause i wanna play this game.

My pc:
Barton 2500+
nVidia GF 6800 ultra 128mb 256bits
1gb ram kingston
audio (its some sort af AC97) but i didnt had audio problems with any high end game till now
etc
It there some sort of patch for that issue, i reaaly need o fix for this without buying aa new soundcard
srry for my eng
thx
And yes, i have the latest drivers for every component

[Penkster]

Have you applied the latest official patch for the game ?

[doohoodogg]

well, no, i found on a site, some patches but the versions are some sort weird, can u tell me what pathes i need to download and from where cause i foun something like 1.00-1.03 to 1.05, what the h..l is that sopose to mean, why is not only one patch, patch 1.05, 1.02 etc, i dont understand really, and dont want to download a lot of mbs and then to find out that only one is needed.
thx

[Penkster]

The latest patch is the 1.05 patch and weighs in at around 256MB. You should be able to get it from most good patch sites.

fear_update_engb_100-104_105.exe

http://www.softwarepatch.com/games/fear-game-patch.html

I'm not sure if there are language specific versions of the patch though.

Having just checked, the patch may be 401MB, strange that the patch I got was only 256MB !!

Further info, if you want to access the patches on Sierra's ftp site ftp://ftp.sierra.com look in the pub/sierra/fear/updates folder

[adrift02]

Aside from the usual fixes (check the VU forums) what os are u using? Once I updated to 1.05 I experiences tons of crashes with audio enabled. Once I switched over to XP from 2k it is working fine. And the 1.05 US version patch is the big one 400+, the UK one is 200+.

[doohoodogg]

Im usin' XP pro sp2

[DABhand]

Is it a realtek soundcard? If so. Yes get a seperate hardware card. Software soundcards (onboard) arent that great to be honest, they use up valuable system RAM to work. By getting a hardware based sound card it will free up that RAM and work alot nicer. (be sure if you do buy one to disable the onboard soundcard in the BIOS)

[Joe Forster/STA]

(Wrong forum, moved.)