CWC crisis sounds gone.

[B.A.M 0]

Seems all my Cold War / Original OFP sound EFFECTS have stopped functioning.

ie: Menu clicks, footsteps, M16, breathing. Anything introduced in reistance or 3rd party addons still works.

All music still works, all radio.

Not likely a hardware/driver problem as its a brand new machine, and it happened on my old one also. It fixed itself after a large in-game lockup/freeze last time, but nothing i do fixes it this time.

Tried reinstall, reinstall sound drivers, reinstall sound card. Could it be an audio codec imcompatibility? I know other games use .ogg.

Many thanks

BAM

[B.A.M 0]

Ok it seems as if the sounds.pbo file is gone.

A fresh reinstall does nothing, it still doesnt appear. I tried to delete some tmp folders from an old install and it said folder was not empty - it was though, and i got the same thing with an unzipped folder of kylikki sound pack.

It seems my Pc is not recognising some .pbo files with sounds in them or .ogg files from custom sounds. I can see them in safe mode though.

ANYONE any ideas? this is driving me nuts!

[Stealth3 0]

What kind of soundcard are you using? And since when did this happen? Did you install anything prior to the problem.

Also try to remove all the custom mods and addons out of the ofp directory, then try.

You can also try to do a fresh install, BUT this time to a different path so everything will be as it was originally.

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Onboard AC97 7.1 on an MSI K8N Neo2 Plat mobo :5.10.0.5620 drivers

amd64 3500

Asus 6800GT : 66.72 drivers

Windows 2000pro

Seems to have happened upon installing/playing Star Wars Republic Commando.

Tried 2 diff paths on install.

Also tried fresh install of windows. Worked fine, again (I think) until Republic Commando was installed. I know it also uses the .ogg format like ofp.

The strange thing is the sound.pbo file is not visible in the dta folders in normal windows (or looking on the ofp CD), but in safe mode I can see they are there.

Ill try removing all mods.

Dont know what else to do really. It strange that its only that 1 .pbo that cant be read.

Any Devs here know what could be causing this??

[Stealth3 0]

Quote[/b] ]The strange thing is the sound.pbo file is not visible in the dta folders in normal windows (or looking on the ofp CD), but in

Go to view and check the options there, maybe the files are hidden.

From what you described, it seems the two games interfer with one another. Try installing the games in different paths.

Don't know what else to say ;/ Try contacting BIS or something if installing in different paths doesn't work.

Good luck!

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Guess no more republic commando for me

Problem is it requires a full reinstall of windows to cure the missing .pbo problem :'(

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Ok seem to have found the problem.

File called CTHELPR.exe keeps planting itself on my pc. NOT CTHELEPER.exe (creative sounds file). Everytime i remove it and reboot it fixes the issue. It also creates skipping in ALL other 3d applications, but ofp is the only one where it removes/hides any kind of file.

I cant find ANYTHING on google/yahoo about this file, anyone else had any experience with it?

It plonks itself on "C:/WIINT/system32/CTHELPR.exe" which is where avast goes mad and says raa raa raaa virus virus, but also on "E:/CTHELPR.exe" - which is another partition of the drive.