Multiplayer error

[Highheadspeed]

Hi all, thought i'de share this one. Anyone seen it before ??
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Note i've had voice chat workin normally till now. No hardware/software changes have been made.

[Joe Teibel]

I would guess that you're running on Vista because that is the only OS I've seen that error on. The low level sound system was re-written for Vista which hasn't been done since Windows 98 (if I remember correctly) and I have found several issues with sound drivers running on Vista. One of which is a random occurance of the error you are seeing: FMOD, the sound library we use, simply reports that your machine doesn't have a recording device. There's nothing the software can do about that - a bug in Vista/the device driver simply causes it not to work.

I added that error message after running into this exact problem on a machine I was developing on. I later read about the Vista sound system re-write and (just trying things out) installed after-market sound drivers from Reltek. After installing those drivers, I never saw that error again. A co-worker of mine has also seen that error and he theorized that the cause was his USB headset which are known to have some problems especially on Vista.

[Highheadspeed]

Hi Joe, no this is on an xp machine. I updated my sound card drivers with no problems. Just thought i'de share this cause like i said it just happened with no change to my machine. All good now voice chat is now working.

Thanks HHS