Each day it becomes clearer why everyone is getting out of the pc business. You just can't win.
I will likely post this more than once. I feel strongly about it.
a) This is an excellent game.
b) I can't make the sound
work.
c) I can play the game perfectly well
without the sound working. (Rename /SOUND and /VIDEO folders to /NO SOUND and /NO VIDEO.)
d) I bought this game as an intellectual exercise in strategy and logistics, not to listen to lots of machine guns.
e) _IF_ Matrix gets the sound working perfectly on every machine in the world I will still likely turn it off. I want turns to run fast, then to read useful, filterable reports of what happened. And while planning my next Brilliant Move I want to listen to decent music (Mozart or David Bowie) , not the same 20 second snatch of boring theme music over and over.
f) What _is_ frustrating with (see my private Emails to Erik [:)]) is not that the sound doesn't work but that I am spending hours downloading patches to fix a feature that seems irrelevant in a game of this sort. I did a quick calculation of how many machine gun bursts there are in Scen 16. I get 6.02x10^23. Do you really want to listen to all of them? Really Neat Explosions have nothing to do with the MANY,EXCELLENT,UNIQUE,REWARDING features of the game.
I give exactly one vote in favor of moving on with the OOB, the serious problems (corrupted Air Squadrons etc), tweaks to make the interface faster and easier to use, and some day let our grandchildren deal with why the 12.7 mm machine gun noise (but not the .303 machine gun noise) causes CTDs on certain systems.
one question....