Demo Sounds issues?

Sat Feb 22, 2003 12:39 am by Bargib

If you hear missing game sounds throughout Freelancer then a different audio codec is probably being used rather than the one provided by Freelancer.

Please follow these steps if some sounds and speech are still missing after installation.

1. Uninstall any 3rd party codec pack or the Nimo Codec pack from your system.
2. Uninstall Freelancer.
3. Go to the following directory, C:\WINDOWS\system32 and delete the file “l3codeca.acm”. If there happens to be another file named “l3codecp.acm”, delete this too.
4. If your system is Windows 98 or ME, open the system.ini file located in your system folder; C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM. Delete ONLY the line that starts with “msacm.l3acm=”. In the case of the Nimo codec pack, this will read “msacm.l3acm=l3codecp.acm”
5. If your system is Windows 2000 or XP, open the system registry editor (regedit) from the RUN command window.
6. Locate and delete the following key: \HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersion\Drivers32\msacm.l3acm
7. Load the Freelancer installation CD and locate the REDIST folder. Within the REDIST folder, double click on the file named “WMFADist.exe” and follow on-screen instructions.
8. Install Freelancer.

Remember: If you are not familiar or comfortable with modifying the contents of the system registry, then please ask a qualified person for assistance.

Best Regards
Christian "Bargib" Koerner
Editor in Chief, The Lancers Reactor

Sat Feb 22, 2003 2:09 am by Godlike Entity

lol "qualified assistance"

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Sat Feb 22, 2003 2:33 am by Lev Arris

Hm... if someone else would have asked for qualified assistance there would be no need to mess around with the system to get the game running in the first place.

Just kidding. I'm sure they did their best to make the game as flawless as possible.

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Sat Feb 22, 2003 9:07 am by hiakuryu

So this is what you're telling me? To avoid issues with a demo and quite possibly the final version of the game I'm going to have to uninstall all the codecs from nimo and therefore lose a good chunk of my multimedia compatibility just to play this game? Ok now I am righteously peeved off.

Sat Feb 22, 2003 9:10 am by ElectricBrain

There have been reported problems that this created so take care when u do this. The problems werent major, its just that the sounds got worse.

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Sat Feb 22, 2003 9:27 am by hiakuryu

Ahhh great this sucks so much why is it that I always seem to get major problems with MS games? *sighs* coudln't run SL on 3D sound couldn't play AOE much cos it would always crash out on me and now this about FL a game I have literally waited years for... and just now I tried the demo and yes I do have missing sounds ARRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHH *rant* *rave* and *CURSE*

Sat Feb 22, 2003 12:53 pm by Stinger

Just to mention something no one else seems to want to acknowledge. Windows is a Microsoft product. True it does a fine job running software that was not created by the owners of the OS code, but on occassion there are problems. Most of these problem can be avoided with some VERY simple rules of thumb...

1. Keep EVERYTHING updated.
2. Do a little computer maintennce every so often.
3. If you are installing some software, and it prompts you to close down other windows before proceeding, don't ignore that request...shut everything down.

How often do you hear of people complaining about software they installed that runs right? Virtually never.

Toned down.

Edited by - Stinger on 22-02-2003 14:31:45

Sat Feb 22, 2003 2:01 pm by Bargib

Stinger - you are being a bit condesending (sp?) here... Even I feel a bit talked down to... But concerning the issue above... The problem is that those 3rd party products tamper with the default codecs on the system, making it really hard to code to one standard....

Best Regards
Christian "Bargib" Koerner
Editor in Chief, The Lancers Reactor

Edited by - Bargib on 22-02-2003 14:02:45

Sat Feb 22, 2003 3:15 pm by Tseng

Well it can't be THAT hard to manage since this is the only game I've encountered a problem using codecs with (well, there was one other now that I think of it.. But it was patched within two days of release). I really hope they fix this -- I'll be majorly annoyed if I have to uninstall Nimo for the final version as well.

Sat Feb 22, 2003 4:12 pm by Ebola

I'm having problems with the sound (sometimes people don't say anything when they are talking) so thanks for posting!

Sat Feb 22, 2003 4:48 pm by Ebola

Hmm... the sound seems to work now. Thanks alot!

Sat Feb 22, 2003 5:29 pm by Starman

No sound problems here - but good info

Fluffle Master..

Sat Feb 22, 2003 6:41 pm by krang

wonderful.. i've been having sound issues with the prbeta since i bought it, it was ignorable though..

i tried the fix posted here and it did absolutley nothing except make things worse.. now instead of not hearing voices every now and then, there is NO sound at all, other than weapons. no music, no engine noises, no sound effects except weapons. and best of all, still no speech

i dont recommend anyone use this fix

fortunately i fixed it so it is back to normal, but now i am back to my original problem of some missing sounds

Edited by - krang on 22-02-2003 18:46:57

Sat Feb 22, 2003 6:49 pm by Godlike Entity

argh this is so bad, is this going to be fixed in a patch? if MS doesn't do something about this the game will not sell well at all

Sat Feb 22, 2003 6:57 pm by zippymjh

Yeah, the fix did nothing. I have nothing but weapon sounds. . .

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