Game crashes after i click on instant action

posted on September 9th, 2009, 12:23 pm

title says it all, also for some reason, there is also no sound on the menu, i'm getting the feeling the problem is sound related, which is kinda weird since i can play fleet operations on my notebook with an onboard realtek, my notebook is vista SP2, and my pc is XP SP3 and has a VIA onboard

configs ahoy

PC
CPU - Q9400 2.66ghz
Ram - 4mb DDR2 800mhz dual-channel
VGA - XFX 9800gtx+ 512mb
HD - samsung 500GB sata 2
motherboard - ASUS PK5PL-AM

Notebook
CPU - T6400 2.0ghz
ram - 4mb DDR2 667mhz dual-channel
VGA - GMA4500
HD - hitachi 320GB 5400rpm sata

posted on September 9th, 2009, 2:34 pm

Hm, thats possible. could you post the size of your sounds / effects folder in your Fleet Operations directory?

The "shot the chicken with a gun" method might be to redownload and reinistall Fleet Operations. Remember to instlal Fleet Operations into a blank directory, not over an existing armada installation, as you do with some other mods

posted on September 9th, 2009, 3:31 pm

Hm, thats possible. could you post the size of your sounds / effects folder in your Fleet Operations directory?

The "shot the chicken with a gun" method might be to redownload and reinistall Fleet Operations. Remember to instlal Fleet Operations into a blank directory, not over an existing armada installation, as you do with some other mods

i installed it on a blank directory several times, along with the patch and the multimedia pack, and i re-downloaded them several times, and about the sound/effects folder they are all blank @_@ , maybe thats the root of the problem lol.

posted on September 9th, 2009, 3:54 pm

Blank sounds are there so that you can refer to a file name without actually any sound. This is often used for if there are optional tracks or sounds that have not been made yet.

posted on September 9th, 2009, 6:31 pm

he refers to the folders being blank, aka there are no files in it

Yep, thats the root of your problem. You could check the installer, if it failes while decoding the audio files (they are not stored as wav in the installer)

posted on September 9th, 2009, 6:59 pm

Well...... one thing I thought was funny was when I converted this sound file into a WAV file and put it as a music track. You would constantly be hearing beeping in the background. Too bad I don't have the converted version anymore. But here is the original. if you want you can convert it and make it take the place of any music file just to get rid of silence.

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posted on September 9th, 2009, 9:56 pm

a workaround for you is to install fleet operations on a computer where the sound is actually extracted and copy it over to your notebook. still, i don't know why the sound doesn't install correctly for you. i'll recheck the code of the decoding process for possible bugs

posted on October 10th, 2009, 9:30 pm

I was having the same problem.  My desktop specs are:

WinXP pro /sp3
Q6600
Asus P5K
ATI Radeon 1950XT

I'm guessing it has something to do with my AV.  Once I disabled it, the installer places the neccessary sound files in the correct directories.

Are you running Kaspersky too by any chance?