Thanks for the option to force 2D sound. Unfortunately it did not do anything to fix the sounds. I guess I'll just wait and try it again whenever I build a new computer.

fun times [:D]

<r> PhilSST, did you deliver the manual to an actual gamersgate person? Or did you deliver it to your publisher to be forwarded to GamersGate? If the "logjam" is with GamersGate, I can check my contacts to see if they can push it through. If it is still with your publisher...I can do nothing <E ...

<t> He didn't buy it from Matrix: "...I purchased the game from another site..." I did not get a manual either (I purchased from Impulse). My SST folder has no Documentation folder. I assumed that meant there was no manual. Apparently it just means it is another casualty of the release confusion.</t>

try running it in a window instead of fullscreen. Might make it avoid the BSD at least.

Yeah I noticed the "TBD" tooltips also but forgot to mention them.

@PhilSST: I can imagine the things you are saying under your breath about all this [:D]

Good luck and thanks for the support! I look forward to playing when I can sort out the sound issues.

<t> 1. First time I tried to repro it, it worked fine but along the way I encountered a new bug (see 6 below). Second time I repro'd it successfully and made 2 saves. I think it is caused by me being in the Run stance. Save2 is just after I picked up the gun (in Run stance). If you move to the ...

<r> Well...I've tried every setting on the "Hardware Acceleration" slider for Sound in DXDIAG. Even in "emulated" mode, the same thing occurs. I've deleted the Game.ini file in between each test. Even emulated, the Game.ini file has "3DSoundSupported=1". I would have thought it would say 0 in this ...

<t> Hmm.<br/>
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I have a Soundblaster Audigy, which your game detects as SB Live 24-bit. Most games usually are able to play 3d positional sounds but I do not know what libraries they might be using. I've tried reducing my sound hardware accelration one notch, deleting the Game.ini file and ...

<t> 1. Click shortcut to launch game<br/>
2. wait for main game menu to come up<br/>
3. click the X on the right of the window titlebar<br/>
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I just did some testing though and it only occurs if I have FRAPS running. If I turn off FRAPS, then it shuts down properly. So just some strange ...

<t> This is on Windows XP. If I click on the red "X" button on the top right of the window titlebar, the window immediately goes away without any "are you sure you want to quit?" message, but SST.exe continues running in the background, consuming an entire CPU. It is as if the game does not even ...

<r> Here's a couple of bugs I found during the tutorial.<br/>
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1. When I was told to equip my handgun and move in front of the tables and shoot the targets, I followed the directions and found that I could not shoot the targets. When I entered AIM mode and put my mouse over a target, I got a ...

<t> I'm assuming it is not supposed to be this way, but on my computer the sound my soldiers make when they walk is literally painful to me.<br/>
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I've gone through the game files and played all of the footstep sounds I could find and they all sound GREAT and totally unlike what I am getting ...

they are really big.&nbsp; Try using GetRight or some other&nbsp;download utility so if it stalls you can resume where you left off.

post the contents of the&nbsp;crash080405_140715.txt&nbsp; file

Get xbigtool over at http://www.ufo-scene.com/ in the downloads section.

Goto the downloads section at http://www.ufo-scene.com/
They have the patch2 hosted there.

<r> no they are the same version.&nbsp; only possible difference would be copy protection.&nbsp; different publishers put different CP on a game.&nbsp; But anyway I think the point in this thread is you shouldn't come here BOO'ing Matrix if you bought the game from a different publisher since Matrix ...

<t> fyi I have the DVD version.&nbsp; If you are on Vista it could take upwards of 30 mins for Vista to scan the entire multi-gb installer file before it finally opens it up.&nbsp; At least this was my experience.&nbsp; (boo to whomever decided to make the installer exe so big instead of making a ...

yeah open the crash file and paste the contents here.&nbsp; I know there were some crash bugs related to ufo's trying to goto a base you just destroyed but I think those were fixed in patch-2 which you've installed on the laptop I presume.