Well i finally got around to playing SL again after many years and immediately found out why i stopped. The random crashes with eax enabled and on the missions above (think it was those ones) random crashes no matter what i tried.

After much frustration i decided to try updating some of the dlls that the game uses as ive found that this has fixed things in games before. As it was mostly a sound related problem i decided to check around for sound related .dll files.

The mss32.dll file in the starlancer is something to do with the sound system and it reported a version of 6.0a and told me it was owned by miles sound or something like that. After looking on their site it seems there were some crash bugs with this version of the dll so i went and grabbed copies of the files from other games i had installed.

The results were that anything after v6.0m dosent work with starlancer but 6.0m does and is in HL1 (well the last non steam version anyway as thats all i have).

I havent tested this thoroughly because ive been on mission 13 for a while trying to get through it without it crashing on me (apparently that ones graphics related) but ive played a few of the earlier missions and it seems to have stopped crashing in those with eax enabled.

Could other people test this and see if this finally fixes the problem? better late than never

oh and if it makes any difference the sound card ive used it with is a SB audigy 2

EDIT: damn still get random crashes guess i was just lucky for a while back to the drawing board

Edited by - eaterofpies on 3/6/2005 3:15:27 PM