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Crash at Launch FIX

By WA3

An easy fix that won't take more than a minute.

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Category: Modding or Configuration, Walkthroughs

Languages: English

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23 Apr, 2016 @ 2:39am

24 Apr, 2016 @ 1:21am

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FIXING IT

I just started up this game. It was crashing at start-up, but I was able to fix it by using some easy steps.

I'm using Windows 7, but I presume it works for others.

STEP 1. Right click the sound icon on the taskbar.

STEP 2. Click Playback devices.

STEP 3. Right click the speaker in use (you'll see the green bars moving up or down)

STEP 4. Click Properties, and then click Advanced.

STEP 5. Set quality to 24 bit, 48000 Hz (Studio Quality)

STEP 6. Apply. (Ok)

Test if it works. It did for me.

When you're done playing the game, just change it back to whatever you were using before.

The game's audio will not play unless it's set to 24 bit, 48000 Hz.

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Dissonance 10 Dec, 2024 @ 10:01am

Thanks for the awesome write-up but let me add a quick note, The bitrate is actually not important here, it's the sample rate that matters. I have a DAC that only supports playback of 16/32-Bit audio and was able to get the game to run using 32 bit, 48000 Hz.

As for WHY it doesn't launch with higher-resolution audio(@nocarthief), it's because the game wants to use the exact sample rate of the audio files... an oddity from the days of porting games to PC from strange console architectures.

TLDR - you just need to drop your sample rate to 48kHz