Sound card driver issue?

I tried a search for that DLL on google and came up empty. Verify that the dll is correct.

What type of sound card do you have? When does it crash to desktop? Can you change sound options in-game (remove EAX etc)?

You could try installing the latest drivers for your sound card.

A lot of video/sound issues are due to drivers not being up to date. It's always a good place to start. Easy stuff first.......

Thanks for replying to my post.

I confined the problem to my sound card (creative live drivers March 2002). When I disable the card, the game works like a dream but you can imagine what its like to play the game without sound. I have xp-pro with sp1 and all the updates.

My configuration is P4 1.7, 256 ram, hdd 120, ati radeo 8500 128 ram.

This problem is driving me mad.

I'm running an SBLive too, but with the most current drivers which I believe are July or August 2002 (not at my home computer now). It runs fine on my rig.

Creative has a ridiculously large liveware driver download on their site that you should check out.