No sound For Freelancer

[Skyelius]

Greetings,

I am very happy to be able to finally respond to this, as it has been an issue that has plagued me for over a year now, and I have finally resolved it.

I am no expert, but I hereby present to you the steps which led to 100% working sounds in my Windows 8.1/AMD computer.

1A) UNINSTALL (do not merely delete) Freelancer. Rationale: This will properly delete all relevant Freelancer registry entries.

1B) Reboot your computer. This "locks in" and saves your registry changes.

2A) Go to Windows/System32 in your local OS hard drive disk. Find l3codeca.acm and l3codeca.acm.mui and DELETE them both, but DO NOT DELETE l3codecp.acm. Rationale: The l3codec is a rather outdated but outstanding audio codec, named Fraunhoffer Layer 3. Unfortunately, the newer, "Advanced Fraunhoffer Layer 3 (l3codeca.acm)" sucks, it's broken. The original "Professional Fraunhoffer Layer 3 (l3codecp.acm)" is what you want to restore audio codec associations to, which is why you're leaving l3codecp.acm intact.

2B) Download and run this well-written and very simple program, which will automatically fiddle with your system registry: http://www.komeil.com/download/264. I got it from here.

3A) Reboot your computer again.

3B) Re-install Freelancer.

3C) Install your favorite (Discovery) Freelancer mod if you want.

3D) Enjoy fully-functional Freelancer audio again!

Cheers

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