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JGorski · 03-30-2003, 10:23 AM

Can someone help me with a sound problem?

I've been playing the game for about 2 weeks without any adverse incidents. It was working beautifully and I was really enjoying it. Today, however, something happened that I am at a loss to explain.

I was playing this morning and everything was fine. Sometime this afternoon, my son installed a new game called 'Freelancer' and began playing that. While installing this game, my son uninstalled some other games. Then I tried to play OOTP5 - it was uncharacteristically sluggish in loading and then very slow playing. The in-game sound was sporadic. I exited and restarted the game and it gave the same sluggish performance only this time as I began to play a game something funny happened: during the initialization (after the roster and lineup screens) the crowd sounds bleeped on shortly, then off, then on shortly again then the game simply froze. This happened a number of times.

I tried to reinstall the game - no help. Rebooting the computer was no help either. After a number of trial and error experiments, I seem to have gotten the game to work again except that I can't enable the in game sounds. And I am still afraid that the game will lock up.

I have a Dell dimension 8100 series, Pentium 4 processor - 1.3 GHz, Turtle Beach Santa Cruz DSP Sound Card (factory installed), and a 32 MB NVIDIA GeForce2 MX AGP Graphics card.

I know it is not the sound card because it was running fine for 10 days previous to the development of the problem.

One last thing: after the game locks, the rest of the computer locks, I cntl/alt/del and end task. Then when I try to open internet explorer I get a message that states I have a error in KERNEL32.DLL

I hope someone can help me.

03-30-2003, 10:23 AM	#1
JGorski Bat Boy Join Date: Mar 2003 Posts: 9	Sound Problems Can someone help me with a sound problem? I've been playing the game for about 2 weeks without any adverse incidents. It was working beautifully and I was really enjoying it. Today, however, something happened that I am at a loss to explain. I was playing this morning and everything was fine. Sometime this afternoon, my son installed a new game called 'Freelancer' and began playing that. While installing this game, my son uninstalled some other games. Then I tried to play OOTP5 - it was uncharacteristically sluggish in loading and then very slow playing. The in-game sound was sporadic. I exited and restarted the game and it gave the same sluggish performance only this time as I began to play a game something funny happened: during the initialization (after the roster and lineup screens) the crowd sounds bleeped on shortly, then off, then on shortly again then the game simply froze. This happened a number of times. I tried to reinstall the game - no help. Rebooting the computer was no help either. After a number of trial and error experiments, I seem to have gotten the game to work again except that I can't enable the in game sounds. And I am still afraid that the game will lock up. I have a Dell dimension 8100 series, Pentium 4 processor - 1.3 GHz, Turtle Beach Santa Cruz DSP Sound Card (factory installed), and a 32 MB NVIDIA GeForce2 MX AGP Graphics card. I know it is not the sound card because it was running fine for 10 days previous to the development of the problem. One last thing: after the game locks, the rest of the computer locks, I cntl/alt/del and end task. Then when I try to open internet explorer I get a message that states I have a error in KERNEL32.DLL I hope someone can help me.