Gratz On Fixing The Freeze When Exiting Error, But Now My 3D Sound Does Not Work.

I can exit my game with no trouble now and the Alienware lights are correct and go back to where they should be on exit. And the game doesn't freeze on exit either.

BUT, my 3D sound is gone. I play on a 7.1 system and for some reason my 3D sound line in options says "N/A". It was working pretty good since issue 19 though with the release of Going Rogue it was messed up.

So now I am back to playing with no rear speakers. I have checked all my settings. No 3D sound now in City Of Heroes.

Anyways thanks for fixing the exit freeze. I hope I can get my sound back too eventually.

What sound card do you use? What OS?

They disabled the option for 3D sound in Windows Vista or Windows 7 systems. Even if you use ALchemy to restore 3D sound, the end result is not what the developers intended, and the crashing when the game shuts down is generally unacceptable. For these reasons, they disabled it.

You would be better off asking them to re-base the sound system on OpenAL.

I've found a way to re-enable 3D sound on my Windows 7 system. If I locate cityofheroes.exe (the game executable, not the launcher/updater), right-click it, select Properties, and on the Compatibility tab, check "Run in compatibility mode", with the "Windows XP SP3" option, my surround sound returns in-game. I don't know if 3D sound positioning is accurate, but at least my 5.1 speakers don't go to waste.

From what I read, this can cause a performance hit on some systems. YMMV.

Thanks for the replies and the fix.