Falcon 4.33 Crash on Launch - Yes - You Need A Working Sound Device
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Thought I’d make my first newbie post useful to some future grounded pilot.
I spent many hours of the last week trying to figure out why Falcon 4.33 crashed when I pressed “Launch”.
I reloaded Falcon 4.33, the operating system (Windows 7), applied all the Windows patches, tried various versions of the Nvidia Geforce GTX 470 drivers, and tried the various suggestions posted here.
All to no avail.
My speaker icon in the task bar was displaying the white “X” in a red circle. But I didn’t think that was important at this point.
Today it occurred to me that, as stated in the System Requirements chart, an audio device was required.
Loading the Realtek driver didn’t help.
After more searching I found that, somehow, the onboard Realtek sound chip was turned off in the BIOS.
Happy New Year!
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Sounds like it was a sound problem.
I’m glad to hear you cleared it up.
& finally
Thanks for the sound advice, it spoke volumes.
Exit stage left.
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Sounds like it was a sound problem.
I’m glad to hear you cleared it up.
& finally
Thanks for the sound advice, it spoke volumes.
Exit stage left.
Just couldn’t help yourself, could’ya? :wfish:
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It was a bassic problem & I’m glad He was able to tune His Rig, before I had a chance to pitch in.
I no doubt would only have caused more treble & thrown the whole thread into disharmony.
So again I think its time for Me to beat it out of hear b4 I get barred for having no sense of humor.
Though I didn’t quaver in the attempt.