Oleg Mastruko -> CTD/sound SNAFU here as well (SOLVED!) (8/8/2004 7:03:49 PM)
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I came back from vacation, installed WITP (1.21) on my main machine and blammo! CTDs and sound problems as per zillion previous posts on this board. While on the vacation I played on IBMs laptop and everything worked fine (I haven't installed 1.21 on a laptop though, just 1.10). OK; I read the various workarounds for the sound problems - if I remove or rename sound folder there are no crashes but then I play without sound, which I don't like. I followed BlackVoid's and Beezle's advice regarding this problem (thank you guys), but none of this satisfies me. And I wonder how many PC-phobic people would have knowledge to follow their advice. Using UV sound is not a complete workaround, as UV came with less sounds and most in WITP are better quality. 2by3 obviously knows about this problem, and I will patiently wait for it to be resolved, hopefully in the next patch. All said, I think 2by3 made a huge mistake when they decided to use MP3 sounds in the game, and they decided to do the switch very late in the development (late May IIRC). Main game download was some 150 MB smaller, but so many people have problems because of this, and subsequent patch, weighting 125 MB all but eliminated any advantage "smaller" main download might have achieved. They should have stayed with WAV format for sound. Due to the number of people and posts about CTD/sound problems I assume there's going to be more 100+ MB downloads just to corect this problem. Sigh. Oleg
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