Mp3 Codec Crash?
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Since GalCiv went final i've been unable to play for more than a few minutes with the music enabled on any of my three machines. I've had a quick look through the 'support' threads / forums / newgroups and can't seem to be able to find a definative fix.
Each machine has a different soundcard (Audigy 2 / SB Live / Ac'97) all with the latest drivers etc. but it doesn't seem to make any difference.
Having poked around a bit with the errors it almost looks like the underlying codec (does galciv use media player???) is stalling and galciv simply isn't trapping that error. I tried the 'fix' from the old drengin.net site but that doesn't even install anymore (l3codeca.acm could not be opened). I've installed no end of codecs on these various machines but none seem to help. Of course this might be the cause of the problem, but not on a clean build.
It's not the end of the world since it works great with the music switched off, but considering it worked fine in the beta's it's a shame to see this problem in the release version
~SDC~
Each machine has a different soundcard (Audigy 2 / SB Live / Ac'97) all with the latest drivers etc. but it doesn't seem to make any difference.
Having poked around a bit with the errors it almost looks like the underlying codec (does galciv use media player???) is stalling and galciv simply isn't trapping that error. I tried the 'fix' from the old drengin.net site but that doesn't even install anymore (l3codeca.acm could not be opened). I've installed no end of codecs on these various machines but none seem to help. Of course this might be the cause of the problem, but not on a clean build.
It's not the end of the world since it works great with the music switched off, but considering it worked fine in the beta's it's a shame to see this problem in the release version
~SDC~