Without Miles sytem, no problem on Vista, coincidence?

As you may know RTW has Miles sound provider that is claimed to create some crashing issues both with RTW and with other games as well.

I will just write my experience on Vista 32Bit.
After my Alexander EB collapsed I had reinstalled everything from the beginning after I got an error message regarding miles error (mss32.dll -something like that).

I opened a campaign in RTW vanilla before installing BI, alex, and EB.
I have deactivated miles sound provider and changed with ...

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AUDIO_3D_PROVIDER:DirectSound3D Software Emulation

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though in its explanation it claims low quality sound I could not find much difference. (I have a b....s..t headphone may be because of it :laugh4:) anyway...
Later I installed EB 1.1 , 1.2 , minimod pack, my conversions (mods)....

at the first time in my life I have played more than 4 hours without crashing.
I just want to confirm by you it really worth trying or it is a just coincidence?

Your experiences will be appreciated.

Regards


Atra

I'd say it is a coincidence. No crash I've seen indicates that the sound is causing it.

Miles is a bread & butter sound library for games of all sorts. As a core component (abstraction layer & back end) to an engine, hardly the sort of thing many different companies would be willing to ship as the default for their products if it were so unreliable.

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Originally Posted by bovi

No crash I've seen indicates that the sound is causing it.

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Odd, I had three rare crashes involving sound. Or so the Windows Error Reporting said.

Thanks for all.
Coincidence or not I am quite happy at the moment to play EB more than 4 hours :yes:

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Originally Posted by Aemilius Paulus

Odd, I had three rare crashes involving sound. Or so the Windows Error Reporting said.

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Which other conditions were in play? Was it the AI turn, was it a post-battle crash, a revolt, something else?

could be conflict with your hardware setup and the driver ... and well .. vista.